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Cloud computing is a hot business technology. Research firm Gartner surveyed businesses worldwide and found that 60% have increased their budgets for cloud services through 2014. Gartner also predicts that the cloud services market will increase 18.5% this year. Are you looking to migrate over to the cloud? Here are a few considerations before your business goes cloud crazy.

Earlier this week we talked about ways to shave your IT budget by combining your servers with a process called virtualization. This can equal big savings when you are running multiple single-task servers. Another way businesses can save money is by migrating their entire server infrastructure to a managed cloud environment.

via The Dropbox Blog, we learn about further updates to the Dropbox web client.  Hot off the full HTML5-ification of Dropbox.com's web client a few weeks ago, the web client was just updated to allow drag and drop: "If you use Chrome, Firefox, or Safari, you can now upload files by dragging them from your desktop onto the Dropbox website." This functionality is a welcome addition to Dropbox's already solid web interface for their cloud storage backend.  Do you leverage cloud storage in your organization?  If you're interested in leveraging Dropbox for your small to medium business, contact ITS today!...

From our friends at The Verge: "With Exchange 15 ready for showtime by September, the late 2012 release schedule for both products may well be on track." Microsoft's latest Mail Server product is set to be available for hands-on at the new Microsoft Exchange Conference this fall in Orlando, Florida.  With public release rumored to be not far behind, Microsoft's flagship server application will certainly bring desktop and mobile enhancements to your Small to Medium sized business.  What Mail Server is your organization on?  When was the last time you upgraded?  Do you have an onsite Mail Server, or is your Mail Server in the Cloud?  Contact ITS today if you don't have the answers to these ...