The Cloud - Be Ready

Continually-evolving technologies, data security threats and policy and regulatory requirements can make managing a messaging and collaboration system costly and complicated. This creates a challenge when IT budgets and headcounts are limited. To reduce the administrative costs and burdens of on-premises messaging and collaboration management, many companies are considering hosted solutions, also known as “the cloud.” Osterman Research forecasts that the market for hosted e-mail will increase significantly over the next several years. In 2008, 10% of all North American corporate mailboxes within mid-sized and large organizations were hosted; this is expected to grow to 22% by 2011.

It will be important that databases such as Access Applications be SQL Server compliant to ease the migration to SQL Azure.

Fortunately there is now a tool to do this. 2SQL from Convertu2 Technologies is an automated solution for the migration and conversion of Microsoft Access Applications to SQL Server.