Chris Bessler is Chief Technology Officer of Cumberland Securities/WindRiver with over 200 employees covering a diverse group of businesses including financial services and wealth management, high-end real estate development, a country club that has restaurant and retail operations, and a resort rental business.
Cumberland Securities/WindRiver partnered with Xerillion and went 100% Microsoft enterprise cloud moving to Microsoft 365 Enterprise E5, F1, Microsoft Phone System and migrating their Windows business apps to Microsoft Azure.
In this interview, Chris describes the original state of their system - a traditional Windows Server network with domain controllers, VPN's and an on-premises PBX and the challenges in their high-growth, high security requirement business.
Chris describes what led Cumberland/WindRiver to choose Microsoft 365, Azure and the Microsoft Phone System over Amazon and Google along with using Xerillion's Confident Cloud Advantage managed services with a fully manged helpdesk, cloud services remediation, training and virtual CIO services.
29 сен 2024
