It didn’t take long for Houston-based Avalon Advisors to discover the true value of moving its core technology platform to the cloud with Advent Managed Services—in a most dramatic fashion. “Just about two weeks after we made the move, we had these horrible rains in Texas,” recounts Jose Medina, the firm’s managing director. “We were flooded everywhere. We couldn’t come to the office. Everything was down. We couldn’t have access to computer service. But we were able to run the business because we were already on Managed Services. So everybody just took a laptop, went home and kept working as always. For us, that showed we had made the best decision.”

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