"As COVID-19 stay-at-home orders are gradually lifted and states begin to return to some semblance of everyday life, we shouldn’t assume an automatic return to the office. "Businesses across the globe have learned during the pandemic that their workforce is just as powerful and enabled when working from home, particularly when utilizing technologies such as unified communications (UC), to their fullest effect. Yet because of the circumstances that led us to be remote, setup was generally … [Read more...]
4 Positive Ways Remote Working Benefits All Parts Of Our Business Culture
Since the onset of our culture's experience with the current COVID-19 phenomenon, more and more companies have chosen to keep their workers at home. Before the virus and its effects, hit so many in the whole of our workforce, remote working was not nearly as common. Now, there are seemingly endless positive benefits for employers to continue on this path, and to increase their efforts geared towards ramping up the process. Here are four of the most valid reasons, and how they relate to … [Read more...]
Cybersecurity: Important Considerations for Remote Workers
There have been many business changes since the Pandemic occurred and some of them are here to stay. Working from home, or at least not going to the office every day, has become the new normal for over 2/3 of the American working population. This introduces many new, and old, challenges for the realm of Cybersecurity. Culture vs. Best Practice Our cultural laziness, due to the perceived protection of privacy while we are surfing the web at home, bleeds into working from this same … [Read more...]
Newest Comcast Business Internet Changes: Will This Affect You?
Comcast is changing their Internet speed tier format again, and this time it's in everyone's best interest. Are you among the many business customers in their West Division that currently subscribe to the 25M/5M Starter Speed Tier coax Internet package? If so, great news! The newest Comcast changes include upgrading your download speed to 35M/5M. This is a bump that should have occurred automatically and became effective 12/10/19. However, there are a few other changes that will affect you … [Read more...]
Two Key Advantages of Business VPNs
Virtual private networks (VPNs) are a common approach to securing the privacy and networks of individual devices, but many companies opt for business VPNs to address common challenges. From providing secure connectivity to mobile employees to equipping bring-your-own-device (BYOD) programs with the right safeguards, business VPNs are a useful solution. Here are two benefits to including business VPNs as part of your enterprise networking environment: Geo-Political Concerns: A significant … [Read more...]
IT Operations Strategies That Work
Trimming the budget and connecting with newer, more advanced technology aren’t often uttered in the same sentence; however, with IT operations revamping almost constantly, the hope for many company leaders and chief information officers (CIOs) is to invest in technology to improve workflow while shoring up financial inefficiencies. Juggling economic efficiencies and modern technology is not easy. As any CIO can attest to, doing more with less is a skill in high demand. According to a survey … [Read more...]
Three Common Disaster Recovery Myths Plaguing Cloud Computing
When an enterprise plans a new cloud computing investment, disaster recovery is a standard part of the conversation. Just like in on-site application investments, IT knows that they must have a plan in place, but it often gets glossed over in the conversation. These conversations are often based on three common myths about cloud computing and disaster recovery: Myth: The Public Cloud Provider Handles Disaster Recovery Public cloud providers do offer some disaster recovery coverage, but … [Read more...]
IT Budgets: No Bounce-Back
"Tech vendors will begin filling the rather bleak picture of business during the April-June quarter as most of the big names release financial results in the coming weeks. But for most on Wall Street, it doesn't really matter. "Investors have already basically dismissed the impact so far of the global COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying recession, which stands as the sharpest economic downturn since World War II. Instead, they have been busy piling into the stocks of the companies they expect … [Read more...]
The Benefits and Challenges of a Multicloud Environment
Enterprises are moving beyond single cloud and hybrid cloud environments in favor of a multicloud solution that offers a high level of flexibility and agility. A report from Cisco finds that 29% of IT leaders say they will be networking across on-premise, hybrid, and multicloud platforms in the next two years. A multicloud solution comes with important benefits. Enterprises are able to better distribute workloads for potentially improved uptime and performance. It also provides the redundancy … [Read more...]
Why IT Outsourcing Is Making a Resurgence
If you’ve been in the IT business for more than a decade, you probably remember a period where outsourcing IT solutions was kind of taboo. Given the digital transformation movement, anyone who believed that IT outsourcing was dead has likely changed their tune. To keep up with and have a chance at surpassing the competition, you have to embrace flexibility, which means looking at different avenues for extending your IT. And think about it — can you independently manage everything that a … [Read more...]
Four Lessons From a Transition to DRaaS
Many enterprises interested in cloud technology make their first move in the area of disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS). It is an attractive alternative to the capital investment that comes with a physical disaster recovery site. As the benefits of cloud solutions are appreciated, enterprises begin to consider a bigger move with infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Before making that shift, consider these four lessons that come from using DRaaS: Assess Your Needs: When you embark on a … [Read more...]
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