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Office 365 for Non-Profits, part 2

Hi everyone, your favorite Mavideans are back with a new update to the Office 365 for Non-Profits process and a lower price-point. It figures that right after we made the last update and got 15 customers set up and running and had just ironed out all the kinks in the system, Microsoft changed the process…

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Do I Even Really Need a Server?

So we have discussed a bit about the challenges facing small businesses with the coming end of server 2003 and Exchange 2003.  No more all in one work horses like Small Business Server anymore, larger hardware needs to run and maintain multiple servers, and more complex and expensive licensing requirements.  It seems at first take…

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Setting Mavidea as the Office 365 Partner of Record

Mavidea spends a lot of time providing information to commercial and non-profit customers on the benefits of using Office 365.  We do this because we sincerely feel that Office 365 is the best solution for small and medium sized organizations (especially 501c3 non-profits!) to provide the collaboration tools they need to compete and be productive…

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What is Apple’s iCloud and how does it work?

Beginning in the Spring of 2011, Apple began letting word out about its new iCloud service which went live for the average user in October. Most useful for those who are Apple loyal, the iCloud allows all of a user’s data (music, movies, photos, downloads, etc.) to be stored in a centralized location so that…

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