Lamar Advertising Moves to Google Apps for Better Reliability and Collaboration

Editors Note: Cloud Sherpas customer, Lamar Advertising, was recently featured on the Official Google Enterprise Blog. Read the original article on the Google Enterprise Blog or read the re-posted article below to learn more about Lamar’s transition to Google Apps. Today’s guest blogger is Ed Nettles, Vice President and Director of IT for Lamar Advertising. Founded in 1902, Lamar [...]

Cloud Sherpas Receives Spot on CRN Next-Gen 250 Rankings

Cloud Sherpas has recently been awarded a spot on the CRN Next-Gen 250 list, a ranking that features up-and-coming North American VARs. “In today’s competitive environment solution providers have to do more than just talk about innovation. The ability to quickly implement new processes, models and technologies is what drives margins and the bottom line,” [...]

Five Tips for Building a Truly Useful Intranet

Cloud Sherpas Collaborative Solutions Practice Director Dave Paolicelli was recently featured on popular IT blog, TechRepublic. His guest blog post provides helpful tips for developing an effective and useful intranet. Read the original article here. Takeaway: Corporate intranets offer an effective way to promote communication and collaboration within an organization — but only if they’re [...]

Sherpa Spotlight: Meet Steve Ziegler

This month we’d like to put the spotlight on Steve Ziegler, an avid Red Sox fan and visual artist who is the senior architect of product and application development at Cloud Sherpas. You started at Cloud Sherpas in Feb. 2009. How did you become one of the first employees? Michael Cohn (Cloud Sherpas co-founder) and [...]

Office 365… 364…

As you may have read, Office 365 users experienced an outage yesterday, and Microsoft has not yet explained the cause. This is the first— and probably not the last— outage to come from Microsoft’s second attempt at a cloud solution. Check this blog category for updates as Office 365 outages continue. Yesterday Microsoft 365 users [...]

Google App Engine – A Deep Dive with Google’s Tom Derfus & Eric Morse

Google App Engine — A Deep Dive with Google’sTom Derfus & Eric MorseAugust 23, 2-3pm ET Register here Google App Engine enables you to build and host web apps on the same systems that power Google applications. App Engine offers fast development and deployment; simple administration, with no need to worry about hardware, patches or [...]

Webinar Replay: Migrating from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps

Migrating from one messaging system to another can be a complicated process. Unless, of course, you have a Sherpa to assist you. In this webinar, VP of Technology David Hoff covers the major considerations you should take into account when planning a migration from Microsoft Exchange to Google Apps, as well as how Cloud Sherpas [...]

Sherpa Spotlight: Meet Nicholas Hatch

For our first installment of Employee Spotlight, we would like to highlight Nicholas Hatch, an Atlanta-newbie and future father of twins who is the Senior Google Apps consultant on the Cloud Sherpas migrations team. You were working remotely from Manhattan for 11 months and just moved to work at Cloud Sherpas HQ. What’s your favorite [...]

Webinar Replay: Assessing Enterprise Readiness for Google Apps

The rapid adoption of Google Apps and the benefits of cloud computing are driving many IT and business leaders to contemplate moving to the cloud. In this webinar replay, Exoprise, Cloud Sherpas, and independent analyst Jeff Kaplan of THINK Strategies discuss how to assess your enterprise’s readiness for a revolutionary cloud-based productivity platform like Google [...]