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How one company’s move to the cloud kept them in business.

Eagle Technologies LLC (Eagle) is a veteran-owned company located in Virginia that provides engineering, composite, and precision machining fabrication services to aerospace companies.   It was critical to Eagle that they had clear communication with their original equipment manufacturer (OEM) aerospace clientele. Unfortunately, Eagle learned that they faced a serious communication problem when they discovered that their emails were being flagged as SPAM by one of their major OEM clients. The OEM was using Trend Micro to detect SPAM on incoming email. This came as a surprise to Eagle given that Eagle had been paying Yahoo for over a decade for their small business email service.

Yet when Yahoo was contacted concerning this issue, it was conveyed to Eagle that Yahoo does not distinguish between paying customers and free service members. In other words, outbound mail for both business and free/personal mail are often carried on the same servers by Yahoo.

Can a Move to the Cloud save the Eagle?

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No, this is not a typo nor is it April 1st.

I came across this report “State of Public Cloud Computing” and, as a cloud advocate, I couldn’t put it down. The value proposition that the cloud offers is well documented but it was reassuring to read how our government is adopting cloud applications as a tool to reduce their(our) costs and improve productivity. This is not a sentence we are used to reading, unfortunately.

Why is this worth reading and how is it relevant to your business?

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