Into the Future

Well, my absence has been a little longer than I had previously thought it would be however seems that items are now flowing in the positive direction once more. I am excited and glad to be back into full swing. So, what is the next task I have been given ?  I am sure many of you will be excited to see this and I am sure we may find a few more followers than we have had in the past, the new topic… drum roll please …. SalesLogix Cloud !!

Yes I am being asked to learn and handle many of the aspects of living in the cloud. This includes assisting Business Partners and Clients alike move start new or move their existing environments to the new cloud structure. I have found one f the best ways to start understanding this new platform is to read as much as possible, and then to try it out. We at PSG have moved our internal SalesLogix system to the cloud approximately 1 month ago. I can say that the performance has been great I can access our instance from anywhere regardless of a VPN connection or not. This first item is a big winner for us.

In the reading area I have found a few places where I have started to gather information, these rae very valuable and offer some great insight on the technology.

The first is Amazon Web Services they offer quite a bit of information about the cloud and the EC2 project

Another is a Daily Email I get from TechNet called SearchCloudComputing.

As I move deeper into the projects I will share with you the trials and successes we have as we move clients to the new platform. THanks everyone for your support and thoughts the emails have been great and it feels good to be back in the swing.