Given that it's the final half-day summer Friday here at eGroup, we thought we'd share some lighter fare as opposed to recent meatier posts such as <a href="http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/setting-up-failover-cluster-networks-in-hyper-v/" target="_blank">Setting up Failover Cluster Networks in Hyper-V</a> or <a href="http://egroup.jasonmangone.com/2013/08/sql-server-2012-alwayson-whats-the-big-deal/" target="_blank">SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn</a>. So, in a neffort to keep it light and quick, we thought about all the positive and neat things our customers have said about eGroup and the team since last year's final summer Friday - and here's what we found:

"Reliability and performance in an on-demand solution are key criteria for ROK's cloud initiative. In-depth knowledge of the technical components required to deliver cloud-based applications and a thorough understanding of ROK's leading edge offerings make eGroup the natural partner of choice for ROK." - Mike Murphy, president at <a href="http://www.roktech.net/" target="_blank">ROK Technologies</a>

"Our administrative personnel were severely burdened by 30 minute log in times to QuickBooks and chronic latency issues given the amount of staff using the application. Moving QuickBooks to the cloud and having staff access through View on their Wyse P20s improved log in times to mere minutes and significantly improved application performance. We were fortunate we had a few idle servers and some extra SAN space to get the pilot off the ground. Once we did, management witnessed just how powerful VDI can be and the impressive time and cost results that are realized almost immediately. We were thrilled to have eGroup support us. Given View’s complexity, we needed experts to get it up and running quickly and successfully. There really was no margin for error in the eyes of management." - Dave Riberdy, Infrastructure Architect, <a href="http://scfbins.com/" target="_blank">SCFB Insurance</a>

"We were looking to upgrade our server environment as some of our systems were already in a cloud infrastructure. We took this opportunity to consolidate more of our infrastructure to a reputable cloud environment. We had an existing relationship with eGroup, but after looking at the market cloud providers, we selected eGroup’s eCloud as it offered the best set of functionality and reliability at a competitive price." - Chris Jarjoura, IT Director, <a href="http://acryness.com/" target="_blank">Acryness</a>