If your business keeps customer data on your servers, you have an ever-shifting legal landscape to be concerned about. There are differing privacy laws and a whole alphabet soup (PCI-DSS, HIPAA, NIST, FISMA) of compliance regulations out there. In this episode of the SeaGlass Technology Podcast, we were joined by Mark Houpt of DataBank Ltd. We spoke about why US companies should comply with Europe’s GDPR regulations and when we can expect federal privacy laws to be enacted. We also discussed the myriad of compliance regulations and why they are important. Finally, we broke down what you should look for if you want to migrate your data to a cloud platform (and what exactly is “The Cloud”).If you are one of the many organizations baffled by the constantly changing regulatory environment when it comes to your client data, reach out to SeaGlass Technology at (212) 201-0006 or visit our website at seaglasstechnology.com to learn more about how we can help your company run faster, easier, safer, and more cost-effectively.For more information about how podcasts, and other forms of business storytelling, can help grow your business, call Merrill Loechner at Smith Douglass Associates at (203) 628-2606 or visit smithdouglass.com.

The global shut down in March 2020 had thousands of businesses struggling to communicate with an employee-base cut off from the technology available in their offices. Multilevel communication systems, which originally seemed like a nice perk, suddenly became a vital requirement for organizations to survive.In this episode of the SeaGlass Technology Podcast, we had a great conversation with Alan Borck of net2phone on the skyrocketing need for bringing office solutions home. So much more than just a phone system, today's UCaaS (Unified Communications as a Service) platforms allow you to integrate phone, video, texting, and direct messaging, with your CRM and other programs. And with more and more companies choosing to keep many of their employees remote, choosing the right UCaaS will be more important than ever.If you are one of the many organizations struggling to integrate the various ways you communicate with both your staff and your customers, reach out to SeaGlass Technology at (212) 201-0006 or visit our website at seaglasstechnology.com to learn more about how we can help your company run faster, easier, safer, and more cost-effectively.For more information about how podcasts, and other forms of business storytelling, can help grow your business, call Merrill Loechner at Smith Douglass Associates at (203) 628-2606 or visit smithdouglass.com.

When your workforce suddenly had to move to a “working from home” model, you know many of the hassles it caused. One of the big ones was the quality of the employee's home internet connections. Your employee is on a Zoom call with a client, their spouse is also working from home, and the kids are taking classes online. And you know that in the middle of an important video conference call, someone was going to start binging Netflix.In this episode of the SeaGlass Technology Podcast, we talked with Mark Medgin of Bigleaf Networks. We discussed how the slow migration away from on-site application servers to Software as a Service (SaaS) increased dramatically as a result of the pandemic, and the strain that placed on home internet set-ups. We also spoke about what technology is available to be able to prioritize certain programs like VOIP over others that need less bandwidth.If you are one of the many organizations planning to make an off-site workforce a permanent part of your business plan, reach out to SeaGlass Technology at (212) 201-0006 or visit our website at seaglasstechnology.com to learn more about how we can help your company run faster, easier, safer, and more cost-effectively.For more information about how podcasts, and other forms of business storytelling, can help grow your business, call Merrill Loechner at Smith Douglass Associates at (203) 628-2606 or visit smithdouglass.com.