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Getting re-familiarized with Mangolassi, until I need to pick up the kids.

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Switching my hat from "assistant collections officer" to "Sales Manager", and then to "Chief Marketing Officer"

Boston Business Journal Ranks Cumulus Global as the 8th Fastest Growing Private Company in Massachusetts.

For the second consecutive year, the Boston Business Journal recognized Cumulus Global as a BBJ Pacesetter. Ranked as the 8th fastest growing private company in Massachusetts, the Pacesetter Award places among some of the region’s most innovative companies.The Pacesetter Award recognizes businesses with exceptional cumulative revenue growth over a four-year period, highlighting businesses and entrepreneurs that ....

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So we are working with Webroot on terms to become a reseller. We've been running it in house as a test. The fact that it does not impact performance when I'm using the hotspot on my phone for access from the laptop confirms that it Webroot is data efficient.

Most of our customers don't want the overhead impact of a "1 solution for everything". Having endpoint protection that is distinct from email security and compliance also makes sense.

@thecreativeone91 said:

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@MattSpeller said:

@coliver said:

Hmm. I really do need to invest in a backup drive for local backups.

Isn't that what RAID is for? Geez man

I should have added, at home to that. We have local and offsite backup for the place I work.

I have local back my office backup is a mix of google drive, gmail, and owncloud haha. Yeah I know it's not that good of a plan.

Note that Google Drive Sync is NEVER a backup solution.

We are using ConnectWise.
It covers almost all of what we want for CRM and has a robust service desk and ticketing system.
It has more work flow tools than we realized and are just starting to see the potential for efficiency and management tracking.
We'll be integrating with our financial system shortly. CW can handle automated invoicing and push the journal entries to the accounting system for receivables tracking and management.

Still looking for a solution?

What to choose ..

Amazon
Google Cloud Services
Rackspace
GoGrid
Rightscale

Thoughts from the group?

Good Evening,

As an intro, I am Allen Falcon ... CEO of Cumulus Global.

My background in brief:

• Network systems development
• Consulting to CTOs and CIOs of Fortune 1000 companies and banks
• Serial entrepreneur
• Part time consulting CIO for small and mid-size businesses
• Now founder of a cloud solutions brokerage

About Cumulus Global, a Cloud Solutions Broker

• Premier Google Apps SMB Partner serving businesses with 1-250 employees throughout US and Canada
• CumuluSuite Office solutions
• Google in Education partner: Migrations, Chromebooks, Professional Development, value-add solutions
• Off-site and cloud backup, virtual DR services
• Cloud storage and servers
• Data Loss Prevention services
• more to come ...

It sounds like you are looking for a few different solutions.

For computer activity ... really a broad spectrum Data Loss Prevention system ... we partner with Awareness Technologies and their LinkGuard product line.

Google Apps Vault will archive and let you search/discovery all email activity. BetterCloud has some real-time monitoring capabilities, but you won't be able to look at attributes such as attachment or attachment size. Google Apps for Work has some inbound and outbound monitoring/compliance rules that can block or modify certain email traffic.

If you are looking at tracking data in Google Drive, both BetterCloud and CloudLock monitor access permissions and ownership, and can change permissions based on defined rules and policies. If you want to manage check-in/out of documents, AODocs brings you that capability.

-- Allen

@Bill-Kindle: Glad to be here. Thanks to @scottalanmiller for giving me the heads up and an invite.

@MattSpeller said:

@afalcon said:

Getting re-familiarized with Mangolassi, until I need to pick up the kids.

Welcome back m8

Thanks! Good to be here.

@scottalanmiller .... We are very busy. We launched a new web site last week (still adding content daily) and opened an office in Atlanta (official announcement is next week). We are also launching our own bundled service package for SMBs that addresses different needs for cloud/hosted managed file services (first set of packages based on GAFW, others to follow).

We received some partner growth funding from Google via their Lending Club partnership, so our staff has grown as we expand or SMB market efforts and move aggressively into local government.

And, sometimes, I sleep.