Cloud Computing Solutions & IT Services in Tacoma, Washington

Email Migration to Office 365

BUSINESS EMAIL POWERED BY MICROSOFT EXCHANGE HELPS EMPLOYEES TO BE MORE EFFECTIVE AND PRODUCTIVE.

On-the-go productivity

Business is no longer confined to the office. Exchange is designed specifically for touchscreens, mobile usability and offline productivity. It helps ensure your employees can be efficient regardless of location or device—even when they are offline.

Save capital

There’s no need to purchase servers and license software, or spend weeks building or upgrading your infrastructure. With a predictable monthly per-user fee, you offload the costs of an on-premises deployment.

Enhanced core collaboration tools

As the world’s leading platform, Exchange unifies business email, calendar, contacts and other Microsoft® applications. It provides your employees with all the tools they need to work and collaborate with other colleagues. They can do it their way—where, when and how they want to.

Simplify cloud services

There are certain IT services that you need simply to do business. AMS Technology offers email migrations from any platform. Whether you are still using POP/IMAP, G-Suite, or a traditional on premise exchange server, we can get your email moved to Hosted Exchange. Plus getting all your essential IT services from one provider simplifies your deployment—the result is one bill, one password and one point of support.

Hosted Desktop

Our Desktop as a Service solution that acts identically to the desktop you use today. The difference? Your workspace stays in the cloud. Securely access it from any connected device to work with your files and applications… from the road, at home or when meeting with a client.

Quick & Easy Access from Anywhere.

• Access your desktop, files and applications from all your devices. Our responsive WVD solution connects you very quickly and securely to your workspace
• Consistent user experience across your PC, laptop, tablet and smartphone

Simplifies IT Management

• Includes all OS, desktop and application support and updates
• Includes all IT infrastructure, storage and data backup
• Supports Bring Your Own Device
• Allows for simplified management of your IT network — end users, servers and applications support via AMS Technology’s Managed Service Remote Support

Enhances Data Security & Business Continuity

• Your applications, files and desktops reside in our secure cloud environment: Azure data centers are SSAE-16 Type II, TIA 942 Class 4, PCI DSS, HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley certified
• Supports company disaster recovery plans by keeping all data secure and readily available

Hardware Virtualization

Hardware virtualization is a method whereby one or more “virtual machines” are created to share the hardware resources of one physical computer. This effectively means that through a process of hardware virtualization several different operating systems can be run on the same computer. Hardware virtualization has been utilized by businesses for several years now to increase efficiency, and individual computer owners are also using it in increasing numbers as a way to improve the functionality of their computers.

Here are a few reasons you might want to consider virtualization of your computer systems.

• Consolidate multiple servers to one Host Server
• Migrate existing on premise servers to the cloud
• Move workstations to the cloud
• Run legacy applications on updated hardware

If you would like to find out more how virtualization can help save your business money, contact AMS Technology at 254-848-5968 today.

Sharepoint

SharePoint is an effective and flexible content management system that can take your organization beyond basic file storage. Here are 9 reasons to consider using a SharePoint content management system for your organization.

1) Eliminate Collaborating on Documents Through Email

At its core, SharePoint is a document collaboration tool. SharePoint eliminates the messiness of the back-and-forth emailing of documents and other files. Store and share the file from a SharePoint document library and all stakeholders can add their content and provide feedback on the draft simultaneously.

2) SharePoint Content Management Removes the Need for Paper

SharePoint supports the paperless office. A paperless office increases productivity by digitally storing documents with searchable metadata. This makes for easy search, retrieval, sharing, and editing of all the documents in your content library.

3) Alert!

You can set up alerts so any time a document, list, or library has been altered you’re in the know.

4) Developing Views for Better Content Discovery

Views are shareable snapshots of related documents. Quickly find all the documents for a specific project, documents that require review and approval or new uploads by colleagues. With the appropriate metadata tagging, SharePoint Views provide users with the right information for the task at hand.

5) Flexible Folders

Traditional file shares offer only one option for organizing large collections of documents: folders. Folders are a familiar, comfortable experience but can grow into deep hierarchies of nested subfolders over time. In this standard (but not optimal) content management system users must traverse up and down the folder hierarchy to find documents, which can be frustrating. With SharePoint, your team can use a combination of folder hierarchy and metadata fields to organize and tag documents. This allows you to create many different views and hierarchies of the same documents, organizing by document category, key dates, authors, keywords, etc. as meets your needs.

6) Easy to Follow Version Control

Document version history contains information about when the item or file was changed, who changed it, and information about what was changed. SharePoint automatically captures versions of your content as it changes over time. Authors can view and restore previous versions to recover from unexpected changes.

7) Securing Content and Managing Document Life Cycle

In SharePoint, user roles and permissions can be configured as globally and granularly needed. Documents are automatically secured during upload based on the rules for the target library or folder. Employee handbooks and benefits flyers can be visible to all users while sales projections can be secured to a few managers and executives.

8) Storing Business Critical Documents

SharePoint is the perfect tool for storing, managing, and organizing business critical documents. Documents stored in SharePoint are secure, protected from deletion and overwriting and can be tagged with metadata and retention policies allowing users to find the right content at the right time. Whether you need to find the contract that’s up for renewal, the financial report your auditor has requested or the project specs your customer needs to approve, SharePoint has the tools to help you store, protect and retrieve the content.

9) SharePoint Content Management Control

Nearly all the content management features in SharePoint can be customized to reflect the content management needs of your organization. With the right governance plan and SharePoint best practices in place, you can create a deployment of SharePoint that makes document management a business asset, not a business headache.

Hosted Quickbooks & Sage Accounting

Benefits of QuickBooks and Sage Accounting Hosting?

Businesses of all sizes can use desktop versions of QuickBooks and Sage provided by AMS Technology hosting services. These applications safely work in a cloud environment. This means you gain access to a feature-enhanced environment.

Certified Public Accountants (CPAs), business owners, and other financial professionals now use QuickBooks and Sage Accounting hosting. This allows access to their business’s accounting files from any location, at any time, on any device.

When you use a cloud-based hosting process, you no longer need to spend time sending emails to obtain account files. If you are a business owner, you can access your accounting software anywhere, anytime while away from the office.

This solution streamlines all accounting-related processes and workflows. Because it’s user-friendly, accounting effectiveness and productivity increase.

Hosting Features

QuickBooks and Sage Accounting hosting works for single or complex multi-user environments. Custom applications and external integrations allow hosting services to adapt to your unique needs.

Cloud Backup

Server Backups

AMS Technology Cloud Backup is designed to protect your servers, virtual servers, and critical applications from a single cloud-based console. Our unique LocalSpeedVault can provide local backup storage for faster restores.

• VMware
• Hyper-V
• Exchange
• MS-SQL
• SharePoint
• Virtualization support
• Bare metal support
• Virtual disaster recovery
• Rapid recovery

Workstation Backup

Workstation data loss can mean days of downtime and additional costs to re-create information or re-install utilities. AMS Technology Cloud Backup is built to protect entire workstations to help you reduce downtime. Great for Ransomware rollback and restore of encrypted files.

Backup Documents

AMS Technology Backup Documents – Protection for Windows PC

AMS Technology Backup Documents is built to protect locally stored business documents and reduce the cost and complexity of backing up an organization’s PCs.

Backup is designed for affordability, easy deployment, and automated backups. With cloud-based, self-service recovery, your users can recover key documents at almost any time.

Backup for Microsoft 365

AMS Technology Backup for Microsoft 365 is designed to help you protect Microsoft 365 users from Exchange, OneDrive and SharePoint data loss.

If users accidentally (or purposely) delete emails, contacts, calendars, or OneDrive or SharePoint documents, Backup for Microsoft 365 helps you restore this data as needed. And you can do it from the same web-based dashboard you use to protect servers, workstations, and critical business documents.

• Protection against Microsoft 365 Exchange email, calendars, and contacts data loss
• Protection against Microsoft 365 OneDrive and SharePoint data loss
• Support for compliance
• Easy backup management
• Affordable backup and recovery, with cloud storage included

Recovery Testing

Testing server backups is essential, but it can be time consuming, and therefore too often neglected. AMS Technology Backup Recovery Testing delivers regular, automated test recoveries of your most critical servers.

Simply enroll your servers in a recovery test plan, and we will automatically spin up a test VM in the cloud, restore the server from your most recent backup, take a screenshot, and delete the VM. Recovery verification reports, including the screenshot and details about recovery time, will be ready and waiting for you.

Optimized for Fast Data Transfer

Cloud services can offer incredible convenience—from lower (or eliminated) hardware costs to reduced maintenance. However, many backup providers simply tack on a public cloud to a legacy solution, which can make cloud-based backups slow to a crawl. AMS Technology Cloud Backup was built for the cloud from day one and designed for rapid transfers to and from our global, private cloud over the WAN.