Moving to the Cloud: Ease In or Cannon Ball?
There are basically two approaches to migrating to the cloud. Think of it like jumping into a swimming pool: you can ease in slowly or cannon ball into the water.
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Where in the World Would You Go? – Part II
It’s such an important lesson. Being able to delegate fully and trust your team to manage important tasks in your absence is a critical test for the health of your business.
Catch People Doing Something Good
During his keynote at Zumapalooza 2008, Mendoza urged us to create and foster innovative cultures by “catching people doing something good.”
Giving Back: Zumasys Serve Day
On February 21, 29 of our team members, including several employees from our customer Ganahl Lumber, spent the day packing boxes and loading pallets at the Second Harvest Food Bank.
CTRL-SHIFT-PARADIGM
There has been a paradigm shift in the value of the IT professional in the last 5 to 10 years. Every major advancement that a company wants to make, whether for profit or efficiency, requires an addition of technology.
Zumasys Employees Raise $10,000 to Fight Cancer
Yesterday, Zumasys employees Ray Gasser and Dave McCary participated in the NetApp sponsored St. Baldricks head-shaving event to help fight childhood cancer.
How to Avoid the iOS 6.1 Bug
The iOS 6.1 bug generates an abnormally high amount of transaction logs when an iPhone or iPad user syncs a mailbox using Exchange ActiveSync.
Where in the World Would You Go?
In order of tenure, give one employee per quarter $3,000 and five days of additional paid time off to travel somewhere outside of North America. No strings attached.
To Cloud or Not to Cloud…
One day the price to move to the cloud will be eclipsed by the cost of 3-5 days of downtime. Only you will know when that day comes for your business.
Zumasys: Gaining Through Giving
The last thing I expected to see at a business conference was a hippie throwing Frisbees into the audience. As much as I like the discus (heck, I was born in the 70s), I was skeptical.
Monitoring Opens New Sales, Service Opps for Zumasys
As a growing cloud services provider to SMBs around North America, Zumasys wanted to proactively inform onsite clients about potential datacenter and network problems, overcome any internal technology issues before they affected its cloud customers, and find a solution that could even become its own profit center.
Shift to the Cloud Puts Some Zoom in Zumasys Revenue
Irvine-based Zumasys Inc. took a gamble six years ago developing a cloud-computing platform for small to medium-sized businesses.
Zumasys – A Different Kind of Company by Peter Eicher
I just returned from a couple of days in Las Vegas, supporting the efforts of Syncsort reseller partner Zumasys and their user conference, the aptly named Zumapalooza.
VMware Kills vRAM Licensing, Will Focus On vSphere Cloud Bundles
VMware is discontinuing an unpopular server virtualization-licensing program and will focus on marketing vSphere and its other cloud computing products as a unified stack.
Zumasys Named to Inc. 5000 List of America’s Fastest Growing Companies for the Fourth Time
Zumasys is pleased to announce that it has once again been named to the 2012 Inc 5000 List of America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies.
Zumasys Recognized as One of the Best Places to Work in Orange County
Zumasys, a leading provider of Cloud Computing and technology solutions for small-and-medium sized businesses, has been named by the Orange County Business Journal as one of the Best Places to Work in Orange County, California.
NetApp Success Story, Zumasys & Servall
By leaving infrastructure management to Zumasys, the 1st Source Servall IT team can focus on important projects that help move the business forward.
Remembering Jay Otto, 5 Years Later
One of the things I think we do very well as a group is remember our former employees/friends who are no longer with us. It’s not just the “In Memoriam” section of our website—we genuinely honor these folks in the work we do day in and day out and it matters.
Zumasys Named a Syncsort Partner of the Year
Zumasys announced today that it was named 2012 Channel Partner Rookie of the Year for Syncsort Incorporated, a leading provider of data protection and recovery software that closely integrates with NetApp storage.
Good Times in a Bad Market, Round 2
As an entrepreneur, I am often asked this question. I never could have imagined how my answer would change after the market drop of October 2008 and the ensuing 3 years of business.