In 2025, businesses are rapidly migrating from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365. This shift isn’t just about changing tools—it’s about future-proofing operations, enhancing data security, improving collaboration, and enabling scalable growth.

In 2025, businesses are rapidly migrating from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365. This shift isn’t just about changing tools—it’s about future-proofing operations, enhancing data security, improving collaboration, and enabling scalable growth.
In the present digital business environment, cybersecurity is more than a technical requirement — it’s a core pillar of financial and operational strategy. For years, audits were treated as reactive compliance exercises, often performed just to satisfy regulations or tick off checkboxes during board reviews. But that perspective is rapidly changing.
The shift from on-prem infrastructure to Azure cloud solutions is no longer just about cost savings—it’s about business resilience, security, and scalability. Companies relying on on-premise data centers face rising maintenance costs, security risks, and limited agility. A smarter VMware migration strategy ensures long-term digital transformation and a competitive edge.
Broadcom's acquisition of VMware has significantly impacted licensing costs, forcing many organizations to rethink their virtualization strategies. As highlighted in our previous blog post, some businesses have reported price hikes of over 1,000%, alongside the discontinuation of perpetual support renewals.
In the wave of announcements coming from Microsoft Ignite in November (with AI being front and center), news of Microsoft Entra Private Access got lost in the shuffle. Microsoft Entra Private Access reached General Availability (GA) on November 27, 2024. This solution is part of the Microsoft Entra Suite and provides a Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) framework to securely connect users to private applications and resources.
Broadcom acquired VMware in November 2023 for approximately $61 billion. This acquisition has raised concerns about potential increases in licensing costs and changes to the licensing structure, which have been substantiated.
Cybersecurity risk management is a strategic approach to identifying, analyzing, and mitigating risks that threaten your organization’s IT systems and data. For businesses in Boston, Andover, Worcester, Manchester, and throughout New England, a robust risk management framework ensures resilience against ever-evolving cyber threats.
IT consulting helps businesses leverage technology to meet their goals. By partnering with an IT consulting company, businesses can streamline operations, boost efficiency, and implement the best technological solutions to support their growth.
In December of 2023, it was announced that the ability to move a VM to a zonal configuration (deployed into a specific availability zone). Prior to this, if a VM was deployed without being set in a availability zone, an administrator would have had not choice but to rebuild the VM (provided that VM was slated for that region). A traditional deployment would post information as noted in Image 1 below in the general properties of the VM. Please note the edit feature now highlighted to the side of the “availability zone”.
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