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Boxtop Brings Secure Virtual Workspaces
to Law Firms
By Neil J. Squillante
June 1, 2016
W
hen feasible, companies should use their
own products (colloquially known as “eating
your own dog food”). Everyone
in the mostly open office space at
Tabush Group uses a tiny computer
connected to one or two monitors.
These aren’t Windows PCs but the
employees are using Windows.
Boxtop ... in One Sentence
Tabush Group’s Boxtop is a private
cloud service that enables law firms
to use virtual Windows desktops
with all their favorite applications
but without any infrastructure
management.
The Killer Feature
Tabush Group Founder and President Morris Tabush explained to
me during my tour of the office that
the secure thin client appliances
on everyone’s desk are optimized
for Boxtop and included at no
additional charge. They’re outfitted
with solid state drives (SSDs) and
a Gigabit Ethernet port. However,
Boxtop also works on your existing
PCs as well as Macs, iPads,
iPhones, and Android phones and
tablets.
Boxtop’s “device agnostic” approach enables you to use your
Windows desktop with your Windows and web apps and your
documents regardless of your
location or the device you’re using.
Boxtop even preserves the “state”
of your virtual desktop. For example,
if you leave the office in the middle
of a sentence in a Word document,
logging in at home will take you
right back to that sentence.
“Lawyers and their
staff need to be fully
productive with seamless access to their
entire IT environment
from anywhere, and
not have to think about
how the IT works,” Tabush told me.
“Boxtop helps them achieve this by
moving everything together to the
cloud. Our clients love that Boxtop
is just so simple, and provides them
secure access to their work from
any Internet-connected device.”
Other Notable Features
Because of Tabush Group’s origins
as an IT consultancy, Boxtop offers
a lot of support — “high touch,
high customization” as Tabush
puts it. First, Boxtop provides a
complimentary assessment of your
firm’s Internet connection. Boxtop
recommends a minimum speed of
10-15 Mbps. If your firm needs to
upgrade its Internet access, this
cost is more than offset by no longer
having to pay for servers and their
maintenance according to Tabush.
Next Boxtop evaluates the legacy
applications you use. Boxtop is
compatible with popular legal products such as Amicus Attorney,
HotDocs, PCLaw, Tabs3, Time
Matters, Worldox, and many
others. Boxtop supports Microsoft
Office either via your own license or
an Office 365 subscription.
Finally, Boxtop migrates all your
documents. Boxtop offers both virtual network drives as well as private
storage space for each user. BT
Sync is a Dropbox-like technology
included with Boxtop for accessing
documents offline. Boxtop connects
to local printers in your office, home,
and even at hotels without compromising security. This eliminates risky
methods such as using a thumb
drive on a public computer.
Boxtop houses your data and
applications in high-security datacenters in New York and Seattle.
“Private cloud” means that Tabush
Group owns the servers, not the
datacenter. Your data is encrypted
at rest and in transit.
What Else Should You Know?
Boxtop starts at $149 per user per
month with no long-term contract
required. Approximately, 15% of
Boxtop users in a law firm opt for the
Power User upgrade, which gives
them more storage and administrative
control of their virtual desktops. A
one-time onboarding fee depends
on your legacy environment. It takes
about 3-4 weeks to move your firm to
Boxtop and train everyone.
Tabush Group
148 West 37th Street
New York, NY 10018
(212) 252-0571
[email protected]
www.tabush.com
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