"10 Steps To Planning and Optimizing Your Office 365 Migration"

By: Parallels

For CIOs and CEOs, cloud computing security is still a hot topic for discussion. The debate continues as to whether a public, private or hybrid cloud approach is best. While there are complex factors that can inform a decision between public or private cloud, security is the biggest. Choosing public vs private cloud services can be challenging, it is important to analyze the differences between applications virtualized in a private cloud and those in a public cloud. This white paper compares public and private clouds in contrast to the basic elements, features and benefits that both delivers. This White Paper highlights: How Public and Private Cloud deployment models differs? Cloud Computing Security — Hosted or Local Applications? The trends in Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud: Which is right for you? An Overview on Security with Private Cloud Computing Implementing Private Cloud Computing with minimal effort and seamless end user experience

By: Parallels

Windows Server 2003 is still being used, even though it has been over 12 years since Windows Server 2003 was released and it lost Microsoft's product update support one year ago.  Industry experts estimate that there are more than 10 million machines across the globe still running WS2003, and many will continue to do so for various reasons until EOL or close to that date. In the past several years, Windows® XP and WS2003 have played a very important part in the progress of companies’ IT infrastructures. It should be a cause for alarm that so many businesses still rely upon an operating system originally released almost 10 years ago. This white paper is a guide on easy server migration and upgrade planning to avoid last-minute, frantic, stressful, and risky forced migration, ensuring continuity of service, support, and security.