Thursday, May 26, 2016


Small and Medium Businesses (SMB) 
Taking Out Complexity with Microsoft Cloud

Microsoft offers a broad end to end cloud solution for small and medium sized businesses (SMB).  Nortec has adopted an all in Microsoft Cloud approach for our SMB customers.  Microsoft Office 365 offers a desktop suite of software combined with email, a terabyte (TB) of cloud storage, Skype for Business and SharePoint.  Additional applications may be hosted in Azure or purchased from another software company as Software as a Service (SaaS).  Nortec adds Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS) to manage and protect the desktop as well as provide single sign on with AD Premium.  Many SMBs are able to go completely cloud and only need switches, firewalls and desktops on premises.  Clients that do need on premises servers, Nortec usually will provide a Dell VRTX Server. 

Notec has seen tremendous success lifting and shifting clients to the Microsoft Cloud and providing unlimited remote support on a subscription services.  Clients have found that not only do they save money but everything works and works better especially for the mobile worker!  Using a complete Microsoft solution removes complexity and drives down problems and cost for the customer.  We are seeing this as a very compelling value proposition and so far the clients that have moved to this unlimited support cloud subscription model are extremely happy!