Three questions for the new normal of business continuity
What do our future workplaces look like? Workplace trends come and go, but the pace of change has accelerated faster than ever. With the coronavirus pandemic forcing rapid shifts in how and where we work, many of the debates about workplace design now seem moot. The open-floor-plan versus office debate is much less relevant with the new normal of nearly [...] Read more
Outlook for Windows will soon allow you to save your email signatures in the cloud
The highly requested feature is arriving in July Email signatures are everywhere. For those unfamiliar, email signatures contain text and/or graphical information such as the sender’s name, title, address, phone number about the sender, inserted into the outbound messages via Outlook. Having an email signature is like handing a person a business card every time you send an email. You [...] Read more
We’re on our way to Windows Virtual Desktop
The pandemic has given the latest version of Microsoft’s desktop-as-a-service offering unstoppable momentum As we all have seen, coronavirus has forced a telecommuting change. We went from corporate workers begging to be allowed to work from home to businesses insisting that they do so. The pandemic has just about everyone who can work from home doing that in no time [...] Tags: Digital Transformation, Innovation, Microsoft, Network, Remote Work, Strategy, Virtual Desktop, Windows
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Home Networking Basics
A Glossary For The Networking Novice For businesses and employees, it's crucial to understand how home networks becomes office networks amid social distancing orders and an inevitable increase in remote work. Home networks weren't developed to support the same capacity as office networks, which can make the transition from on-premise work to remote work a challenge for work from home [...] Read more
Top 10 Reasons To Move To The Cloud
Why Cloud? The Cloud can offer new opportunities for businesses, remove the hard stuff of managing and deploying servers and allow them to focus on their core business. That being said, we thought we would share our top ten benefits of the Cloud. Cost effectiveness There are many reasons why the Cloud is cheaper. The most obvious of them is [...] Read more
The new work order of COVID-19 might be here to stay
A New Work Order Over the past couple of months, COVID-19 has pushed IT teams to their limit, forcing them to deliver digital work environments that they were not necessarily prepared to deliver and at breakneck speed. It has been a stressful time for many, but new research reveals that the majority have responded positively and are stepping up their [...] Read more
What is Application Security?
Secure Your Applications Application security is not a single technology; rather, it’s a set of best practices, functions, and/or features added to an organization’s software to help prevent and remediate threats from cyber attackers, data breaches, and other sources. There are various kinds of application security programs, services, and devices an organization can use. Firewalls, antivirus systems, and data encryption [...] Read more
A guide to IT infrastructure amid COVID-19
Building an effective remote team infrastructure The COVID-19 outbreak has forced many businesses to change the way they carry out their day-to-day operations. Many have implemented a remote workforce strategy with varying degrees of success. Few have transitioned smoothly, others have gone about it sub-optimally, and yet some others are still struggling to make it happen. Even highly sophisticated businesses [...] Read more
Microsoft 365 Migration Mistakes
Stuff happens to everyone everywhere all the time Mistakes, even when it comes to Microsoft 365 migrations, may never be completely avoided by everyone. However, those who arm themselves with knowledge and learn from mistakes already made by others are best equipped to avoid the costly issues that can break a company’s best intentions of migration to the cloud. Read [...] Read more <nav class="navigation pagination" role="navigation" aria-label="Posts">
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