Listen to what your business is telling you. With the deluge of cloud applications today – Office 365, Microsoft Azure, Unified Communications (UC) solutions, and much more – we’re asking a lot of our traditional networks. WANs are being pushed to their limits, carrying increasing amounts of data to and from multiple branch offices to mobile users, and to the corporate …
Spoofing: an easy way to get hacked
The first thing you want to do is determine whether your account has been compromised by a virus, malware, or a spammer, or if you are just being spoofed. Email spoofing is when the sender of an email, typically spam, forges (spoofs) the email header “From” address so the email being sent appears to have been sent from a legitimate …
It’s All About The Bundle
I recently took a morning trip to McDonald’s to cheat on my 2019 Resolution, and ordered the standard Egg McMuffin, hash brown and a coffee. When I arrived at the drive through window, the attendant told me my total was $9.23 and I was appalled. I asked for the receipt and everything was ordered ala cart instead of the “Breakfast …
Winning with UCaaS: The road to smart, efficient business communication
Unified Communication-as-a-Service (UC) is the new standard for business communications – not just because it offers the ability to cut communication costs, but also because it enables new capabilities that integrate voice and other digital communication channels into a single platform. Using a single UC platform, users can switch seamlessly between features like text, video conferencing, meeting collaboration, and much …
Winning with UCaaS: The road to smart, efficient business communication
Unified Communication-as-a-Service (UC) is the new standard for business communications – not just because it offers the ability to cut communication costs, but also because it enables new capabilities that integrate voice and other digital communication channels into a single platform. Using a single UC platform, users can switch seamlessly between features like text, video conferencing, meeting collaboration, and much …
Three Benefits of DRaaS You May Not Know
The as-a-Service model is revolutionizing how we do business. It’s giving businesses of all sizes access to enterprise-level services at scale, leveling the playing field and allowing competition to be based on what you produce, not what hardware you can afford. Disaster Recovery has been one of those expenses that many felt they just couldn’t afford, to their own detriment. …
5 Pillars of Business Continuity
Your business runs on data. If you lose access to it, you immediately incur costs – costs in time, productivity, customer dissatisfaction. If you lose it completely, the costs could be catastrophic. Threats come in many forms and you rarely see them coming. To combat this potential for disaster, you need a thorough backup plan ready in the wings. Here …
How Sustainable Is Your Technology?
My high school-aged daughter, Blair, came home last week with an English assignment. Her teacher asked her to write a paper about sustainability and how it impacts Blair’s teenage life. It was a good question even though Blair didn’t necessarily like the project. As we discussed it throughout dinner, it made me think more and more on how technology has …
Will Your Phone System Save You in a Disaster?
Now is the time to make the changes that will propel you into a successful technology year in 2018. Let’s focus on the value of a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP). The more you can do to prepare for potential disruption, the more likely you are to recover in the actual event of it. Having a concise, updated DRP will save …
What We Need to Learn from the Equifax Data Security Breach
2017 has seen more than a few major cyber attacks. From Equifax to Uber to WannaCry, millions of records have been breached. Here we explore the largest known data security breach, where it went off the rails, and what we can learn from it. This summary is from an article posted by Calyptix. Equifax Data Breach – 145.5 Million Accounts …