Introducing our Cloud

Once upon a time a cloud was a fluffy white thing in the sky, a dark grumbling rain bringer or a rapidly rotating vortex of destruction and chaos. Today The Cloud is a style of computer networking that leverages the Internet to provide additional mobility and access to data with minimal investment in hardware. The Cloud can also have the same characteristics of a cloud which why we have researched and developed expertise in business grade cloud services for you.

Harbor will only bring you business grade Cloud. Business grade Cloud has several critical components:

• Ability to control your own data
• Ease of movement in and out of the service
• Ability to set and monitor data security
• Redundancy
• Data Backup and Data Restore
• Privacy

Harbor Secure Cloud are subscription services chosen for their ability to protect your corporate data and enable you to work from anywhere.

• Email
• Protection - Anti-Spam, Easy Encryption, Live Archive
• Hosting
• Compliance Archiving
• Compliance Encryption
• Data Storage - Cloud Share, Web Share, Sharepoint
• Backup - Cloud Share, Backup to Cloud (server and PC), Backup to Remote Location (server and PC)
• Authentication
• Phones – Mobile, Hosted PBX 

Because The Cloud is subscription based it can put significant pressure on monthly cash flow, which is one of the reasons why businesses will have a mix of Cloud services and on-premises solutions. On-Premises solutions however are evolving too and today we can implement many solutions that provide the benefits of Cloud without the monthly cash flow hit.

Harbor Private Cloud resides on installed equipment in your office that enables simple remote access, eliminates PC purchases and stores a copy of your Cloud shared data.

• Servers · Remote Desktop Services (formerly Terminal Services), Virtual Servers, Virtual Desktops, MultiPoint (RDS and VDI)
• Computer Alternatives - Thin Clients, Zero Clients (requires MultiPoint)
• Data Storage - Local Cloud, Sharepoint
• Bandwidth – Cable, T1 for Internet and Phone

We will be adding to our Cloud offerings as the market for them matures and more business grade solutions enter the market. Harbor will also continue to provide tradition servers and solutions.

Shanewaz Ahmed

Shanewaz joined Harbor about 3 months ago. You might be wondering how to pronounce is name. I did. It’s not as bad as it looks. It’s Shan-Waz. He came to us from the Oakland University IT department.

Shanewaz will be handling all maintenance activities for us. These are the things that we do in the background every month or quarter and includes software updates, backup verification and on-site visits to check PC status, firewall updates and lot of other tasks. He has performed the majority of these tasks for the last 3 months and will now be taking them over in their entirely for all clients.

This does not change anything with your assigned technician, except that in hiring Shanewaz I have lightened their work load significantly. We’ve already started to see the benefits accrue in knocking down our background task to-do list as well as a speed up in response time by the primary technicians.

Shanewaz was also a student at OU, however due to family illness had to leave the university. He intends to return part-time to complete his degree in Computer Science. He will also be pursuing certifications relevant to the work we do for our clients. We’ve all been really pleases with the quality of his work and are happy to have him aboard.