Many IT teams overlook the need for security when it comes to their organisation’s printers. Despite the fact that these are part of the network and often linked to an external company whose security you have no control over.
The term “Shadow IT” is used to describe IT systems and solutions that are implemented within an organisation but don’t have official planning and approval behind them.
Microsoft recently produced a handy whitepaper aimed at dispelling the many myths that surround moving your business IT products on to a cloud computing platform.
With the proliferation of cloud based products available direct to SMEs across the UK, we are often asked what benefits there are to using a specialist IT company when the customer could go direct to the software supplier.
Office 365
is one of the cloud based products offered by Microsoft and is one of their key offerings for business users, both for start-ups and those that are more established. We’ve outlined some of the key product features below:
An alarming number of SMEs don’t take IT security issues seriously, in fact a survey by HM Government’s Cyber Street found that around 1/4 don’t think criminals will target small businesses. This is despite the rise in online fraud, viruses, hacking and data theft we see reported every week in the press.
With the advance of both cloud computing and big data, they are often seen as a perfect match. Big data needs a flexible computer environment that can be scaled up quickly and automatically to support the large amounts of data. Cloud based infrastructure provides exactly that. But whenever cloud computing is being discussed and given the many recently publicised data breaches, the question is often asked:
Windows 10 has arrived and has, at the time of writing, been downloaded around 14 million times. It’ a free update for Windows 7 and 8 users and has many new features as well as reviving some elements from the past.
Many of our clients have long established onsite mailservers and one of their major concerns when considering an online hosted exchange server is the potential for data loss.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with hosted desktops, here is an overview of how they work.
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