When you think about your company’s strategic priorities for the coming year, or even the next three or five years, where does IT rank? For a long time, executives figured IT wasn’t much more than glorified typewriters and photocopiers. Some techie looked after all that stuff, while top executives focused on Sales, Marketing, Product Development, and Finance. They […]
How to Ease IT Management Headaches with Remote Desktop Services
Some of the most common challenges clients bring us relate to application management. Fortunately, it’s now easier than ever to take any desktop application to the cloud for centralized management and then seamlessly deliver them to users through Remote Desktop Services. Let’s take a look at how RemoteApps work on Windows Server, and why our clients love the […]
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How to Use Team Chat Tools to Improve Collaboration
When it comes to business communication, few categories of software have more buzz than Team Chat tools. The prominent example is Slack, a hot Silicon Valley startup. But many enterprise vendors have also unveiled similar services for businesses, including Cisco, Google, IBM and even Facebook. Cloud-based project management tools, like Atlassian and Basecamp, have also incorporated […]
5 Important Questions for a Better Network Strategy
Does your office or facility suffer from network issues? You are not alone. Unless your company hired a professional to carefully create a network strategy, intermittent problems will almost certainly occur. Networking requires a certain level of specialized knowledge, as well as the right hardware. Many customers who come to us are relying at the […]
5 Guiding Principles for Planning a Practical IT Strategy
Technology has woven itself into nearly every aspect of business today, powering organizations’ productivity and competitiveness. Despite IT’s important role, many organizations never get around to planning a real IT strategy of any kind. And as a result, IT infrastructure becomes hard and costly to maintain, and incapable of adapting to business needs. (We’ve touched on this before in our […]
How to Protect Your Business from the Rise of Ransomware
The latest reports about global cyberthreats are alarming. Ransomware is on the rise, and small and mid-sized businesses are the victims. Incidents of ransomware, which holds your data hostage until you pay up, increased a shocking 167 times in 2016. That’s 167 times (not 167 percent), from 3.8 million attack attempts in 2015 to 638 million in […]