# www.cloudessentials.com
> Cloud Essentials is your partner when dealing with complex migrations, compliance, security and tenant management. Let's reduce your costs today!

## Services
- [Reduce Microsoft Storage Overheads | Data Security](https://www.cloudessentials.com/blog/webinar-storage-optimisation/): Tactical moves and quick wins to reduce Microsoft 365 storage overheads AND have confidence in your data security.
- [Microsoft 365 Content Services Preferred Partner Status](https://www.cloudessentials.com/blog/content-services-preferred-partner/): Cloud Essentials has been recognised by Microsoft as a Preferred Partner in their Microsoft 365 Content Services Partner Program.
- [Compliance advisory services for Telecoms client](https://www.cloudessentials.com/your-success/bulksms-compliance-advisory/): Having grown organically, BulkSMS wanted to accelerate their compliance journey and enhance their data management processes and procedures.
- [Cloud Cost Optimisation: Hidden Challenges & How to Solve Them](https://www.cloudessentials.com/blog/the-hidden-challenges-of-cloud-cost-optimisation-and-how-to-overcome-them/): Struggling with cloud cost spikes & inefficiencies? Learn key optimisation challenges & how to control Azure spending in our expert-led webinar. Register now!
- [AI and Data in Financial Services: Achieving Efficiency with M365 Copilot](https://www.cloudessentials.com/the-next-frontier-in-financial-services-ai-data-and-the-race-for-efficiency/): Explore how AI is transforming operational efficiency in financial services with M365 Copilot. Learn how data governance, privacy, and security are key to unlocking AI-driven productivity and compliance in the financial sector.
- [Navigating Azure Deployment: The art of cost optimisation](https://www.cloudessentials.com/blog/navigating-azure-deployment-the-art-of-cost-optimisation/)
- [Storage optimisation for your Microsoft environment](https://www.cloudessentials.com/management/storage-optimisation/): More content, more risk, more cost. We can work with you to solve your storage optimisation dilemmas in Microsoft 365.
- [Information Governance](https://www.cloudessentials.com/data-governance/): Information governance and technical expertise to drive your information governance journey including pragmatic advice & practical recommendations. View more!
- [Microsoft Purview Deployment Services](https://www.cloudessentials.com/data-governance/microsoft-purview-deployment-services/): Our Microsoft Purview Deployment Services are designed to educate, facilitate and deploy Microsoft Purview data governance technology in your organisation

## Documentation
- [Tips on choosing a cloud backup solution](https://www.cloudessentials.com/blog/how-to-choose-a-backup-solution-cloud-essentials-guide/): Every business needs a cloud backup solution. Find out how to pick the right solution for your business. Read more today!
- [Start Readying Microsoft Defender For Your Mimecast Migration](https://www.cloudessentials.com/blog/how-to-start-readying-microsoft-defender-for-your-mimecast-migration/): For many organisations, a Mimecast migration has become a no-brainer in terms of optimising email security and compliance. Read our guide!
- [How To Find The Right SharePoint Migration Tool](https://www.cloudessentials.com/how-to-find-the-right-sharepoint-migration-tool/): The real difficulty lies in weighing up the pros and cons of each to select the right option for your specific migration project. Read up more
- [Securing Microsoft Teams for compliance](https://www.cloudessentials.com/blog/how-to-leverage-microsoft-teams-without-introducing-a-compliance-blind-spot/): Chris Hathaway introduces Microsoft’s game-changing inter-office communication and collaboration tool, Microsoft Teams
- [Microsoft Advanced eDiscovery Tools](https://www.cloudessentials.com/blog/how-to-save-money-with-office365-advanced-ediscovery/): Office 365’s Advanced eDiscovery addresses the areas in which ‘normal’ eDiscovery falls short. Find out more in our latest article.
- [Microsoft Viva Topics | SharePoint Syntex](https://www.cloudessentials.com/knowledge/viva-topics/): Using a workshop approach, we help you identify key features in Microsoft Viva Topics that answer your unique business challenges.
- [Get Buy-in For Information Governance Improvements](https://www.cloudessentials.com/blog/how-to-get-buy-in-and-budget-for-information-governance-improvements/): Good information governance is the equivalent of basic hygiene. Implementation of best practices should be a no-brainer for corporate decision-makers.
- [If you think Teams sucks, you’re doing it wrong](https://www.cloudessentials.com/blog/how-to-get-teams-right/): Microsoft Teams can be both user-friendly and intuitive – we share our top tips on how to achieve Teams success in your organisation
- [Cloud Based Knowledge Management Solutions](https://www.cloudessentials.com/knowledge/): Specialist document and knowledge management solutions. Agile, cloud-native solutions. Your users need knowledge at their fingertips
- [Email Preservation](https://www.cloudessentials.com/knowledge/email-preservation/): We create a secure, cloud-based repository for email and document preservation, custom-fit to your volume and retention requirements.
- [Blog](https://www.cloudessentials.com/resource-library/): Stay in the know with news and views from our eyes on the ground. Our thinking section shares cloud insights from our technology experts.
- [Knowledge Articles](https://www.cloudessentials.com/category/knowledge/): View Cloud Essentials list of Knowledge. Be informed about the latest industry insights from leaders in the Cloud technology field!
- [Knowledge & Content Management Portfolio](https://www.cloudessentials.com/portfolio-category/knowledge/): View our range of Knowledge and Content Management case studies, showcasing successful Cloud Essentials projects for clients in the UK and South Africa.

## Blog
- [Effective Data Lifecycle Management Strategy For Microsoft 365](https://www.cloudessentials.com/blog/keep-or-delete/): Keep or delete? Why you need an effective data lifecycle management strategy for Microsoft 365 and how to create one. Read up more!
- [Mastering Security in Azure with Defender for Cloud](https://www.cloudessentials.com/blog/security-in-azure-the-right-tool-the-right-setup-and-the-right-partner/): Unlock the full power of Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Learn why setup, strategy, and the right partner are key to securing your Azure and hybrid environments.
- [Deploy Microsoft DLP Fast](https://www.cloudessentials.com/blog/webinar-deploy-microsoft-dlp-fast/): Deploy Microsoft DLP fast and discover more about information protection at our free webinar on 12 July at 12pm BST
- [Adaptive protection](https://www.cloudessentials.com/blog/adaptive-protection-a-new-horizon-for-data-security/): Learn how Microsoft Purview's adaptive protection uses AI to enhance data security while maintaining productivity. Learn more in our blog.
- [Backup vs retention](https://www.cloudessentials.com/blog/backup-vs-data-retention-and-why-you-need-both/): Backup and retention are both forms of data preservation, but the purposes for which they preserve that data are completely different.
- [Box migration – a world beyond OneDrive](https://www.cloudessentials.com/blog/box-migration-a-world-beyond-onedrive/): We discuss the benefits of bringing Box content into the Microsoft ecosystem and what to store where to get real business value from your content.
- [Cloud Backup VS Human Error](https://www.cloudessentials.com/blog/cloud-backup-vs-human-error/): Protect your data from human error with cloud backup solutions and granular restore features. Learn more today!
- [Webinar: Compliance with Microsoft Purview](https://www.cloudessentials.com/blog/cloud-essentials-webinar-compliance-with-purview/): Webinar with practical examples to demonstrate how to support and enhance compliance with Microsoft Purview and reduce risk in your organisation
- [Data Protection Strategy With Microsoft 365 Copilot In Mind](https://www.cloudessentials.com/blog/data-protection-strategy-with-microsoft-365-copilot-in-mind/): Get your data estate ready to implement Microsoft 365 Copilot with confidence that your data protection strategy is robust enough to withstand added stresses.
- [Data Security vs Productivity](https://www.cloudessentials.com/blog/data-security-vs-productivity-is-it-really-one-or-the-other/): Balancing data security and productivity is possible with cloud-based DLP solutions. Explore how adaptive protection secures sensitive information!
- [Do all roads on the zero-trust journey lead to an E5 licence?](https://www.cloudessentials.com/blog/do-all-roads-on-the-zero-trust-journey-lead-to-an-e5-licence/): The journey to zero trust security isn’t always a straightforward one. Allow us to unpack some truths around organisational security
- [Need to know more about email archiving in Office 365?](https://www.cloudessentials.com/blog/email-archiving-office365/): Considering moving to email archiving in Office 365? If you're thinking of exiting Mimecast, here's what you need to know
- [End of the road for Skype for Business](https://www.cloudessentials.com/blog/end-of-skype-for-business-2/): Microsoft Teams adoption takes a lot more than just switching on the functionality and telling users to uninstall Skype for Business. We explain why.
- [Get a handle on privacy with Microsoft Priva](https://www.cloudessentials.com/blog/get-a-handle-on-privacy-with-microsoft-privacy/): Handling personal information is part of doing business in the modern digital economy. Our thoughts on Microsoft's latest offering.
- [The Biggest Threat To Data Security?](https://www.cloudessentials.com/blog/insider-risk-biggest-threat-to-data-security-biggest-driver-for-information-governance-change/): It's difficult to get buy-in and budget for DLP and information security improvements until the worst happens. Read up more today!

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- PreferencesPreferences: The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
- StatisticsStatistics: The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
- MarketingMarketing: The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
- FunctionalFunctionalAlways active: The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
- PreferencesPreferences: The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
- StatisticsStatistics: The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
- MarketingMarketing: The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
- FunctionalFunctionalAlways active: The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
- PreferencesPreferences: The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
- StatisticsStatistics: The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
- MarketingMarketing: The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.