More than 23,000 technology professionals are assembling in Chicago's McCormack Place this week for Microsoft Ignite: the software giant's biggest, baddest conference yet for the IT professional community. This conference covers the entire spectrum of Microsoft's Enterprise and education product offerings, replacing separate events for Exchange, Lync, Sharepoint and TechEd.

Cloud technology like Microsoft Azure and Office 365 are not just convenient - they add an extra layer of security and compliance for your data, as many tax professionals have discovered recently.