by Seb Matthews | Mar 5, 2019 | Cloud, Governance, Office 365
Backup? For Office 365? Are you nuts? Microsoft takes care of it, no?Microsoft does indeed take care of the availability of the infrastructure associated to operating Office 365 and Exchange Online but the safety of your data is a shared responsibility which is...
by Seb Matthews | Feb 22, 2019 | Cloud, Governance, Office 365
How long should you keep an Office 365 object such as a SharePoint Site, an Office 365 Groups or a Microsoft Team?The Eternal QuestionIt is a great question. A contentious question. A question that really only has one answer (despite what other consultants might tell...
by Seb Matthews | Jan 16, 2019 | Cloud, Governance, Office 365
The short answer? They don’t. Resilience <> Backup In a broad sense ‘backup’ of Office 365 resources is managed through a number of methods that, in the main, would actually be considered resilience solutions. Multiple copies of data at rest,...
by Seb Matthews | Oct 29, 2018 | Cloud, Governance, Office 365
We are always interested in seeing what other Solution Providers in the Microsoft Cloud space are thinking. One that I keenly follow is Brighter Days, a small boutique consultancy over in beautiful New Zealand. Founded a couple of years ago by Lee Stevens, a relocated...
by Seb Matthews | Jul 25, 2017 | Governance, Office 365, The GDPR
I’ve been cheekily comparing the position organisations are taking with regards to the GDPR with them being different zoo animals. What I am seeing is organizations, regardless of where they are in the world, broadly falling into one of four pots: the Ostriches,...
by Seb Matthews | Jul 11, 2017 | Governance, Microsoft, Office 365, The GDPR
With the increase in interest in privacy driven, in part, by initiatives and regulations such as the GDPR, Cloud providers are being pushed harder than ever before to introduce robust solutions to increasingly unique privacy problems. The broad feature set of services...
