Organizations have had to make several overnight adjustments to stay afloat over the last few years. If you’re like most businesses, you may have needed solutions to support remote work and collaboration. But are those tools pointing you in the right direction towards your long-term goals and vision? Two years into the pandemic, many businesses are starting to evaluate whether …
Co-Managed IT: A Flexible Partnership With IT Professionals
It’s hard to see how investing in your company’s IT services would be as incentivizing as other investments that might deliver a more tangible ROI. However, ensuring that your IT department has a competent team that’s up-to-date on the latest cyber security knowledge and has access to the latest software to allow them to do their jobs well is a …
Anatomy of a Business – Aligned IT Roadmap
Aligned IT Roadmap Given the growing impact of technology on today’s business operations and processes, IT leadership must have a clear path that is closely aligned with the organization’s long-term strategic goals. While developing this IT roadmap has never been more important, it’s often a challenge for IT teams to step out of the day-to-day mandates and look at IT …
How are you planning for 2020?
With not only a new year but a new decade right around the corner, company leaders need to be mapping out a serious plan for what’s ahead. But where do you start? It’s a major challenge in deciding when ‘outdated technology’ is holding an organization back, or when it’s still delivering value. Or determining if the ROI for building integrations …
Why Policy-driven Networks fail to keep up with the Cloud
IT leaders at today’s cloud-enabled businesses are expected to provide the same predictable performance that they did with on-premise systems. Downtime is not acceptable, and cloud applications are expected to work the way they were meant to. Users want them to be fast, responsive, and not lead them to frustration. All of these, combined with the fact that they also …
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 …
CTG Hosts Tech Summit to Engage with Cloud Thought Leaders
This week Corporate Technologies Group hosted a Technology Summit designed exclusively for CIO/IT leaders who want to enhance their knowledge around IT innovation and cloud transformation. The Summit was led by Michael Sterl, Chief Strategy Officer for Carve Digital and IT Thought Leader. The days’ speakers included representatives from CTG and several of their partner cloud solution providers, most of which are …
4 Tips to Optimize Your Experience with Managed Cloud Providers
When considering moving your business to the cloud, you need to decide how much involvement you want in managing that cloud. The cloud doesn’t run itself. Some people fear they will “lose control of their data” if they outsource cloud management. However, managed cloud providers aren’t taking control, they are using their training to make sure your data is safe …