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Want to Cry? 7 IT security risks small businesses cannot ignore
Cybersecurity threats are often associated with larger corporates and multinationals. But the truth is that – as with the recent WannaCry ransomware virus – businesses of any size are at risk. Unfortunately, many small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) don’t take the threat seriously, or they don’t have the resources to... Read More
How to make speech-to-text even easier!
Philips SpeechLive makes going from your voice to a written document quicker and more convenient than ever before. No matter where you are, whether in your office or on site, you can record your notes, task lists or documents, and send them to SpeechLive for immediate transcription. You can be... Read More
4 Tips – How to have a better Managed IT Services relationship.
Managed IT Service Providers (MSP) can help in making the day to day function of your business to be smoother. You can take advantage of everything a good MSP has to offer if you have a good business relationship with them. Here are a few tips on how to attain... Read More
Modern Workstations For Modern Healthcare
Modern healthcare facilities take many different forms. From hospitals to neighbourhood clinics to home visits, different ecosystems require different workstations. Some require the power and stability of desktop PCs, while others need the portability of laptops or the ease of tablets. However, some important conclusions can be drawn when designing... Read More
10 Trends to Watch For in 2017
The machines are rising. Artificial intelligence (AI) has proven it’ll be no fun at a party, having taken down the world’s best player at the difficult strategy game Go. If that makes you anxious, good news: virtual reality (VR) is being used by doctors to help patients with anxiety. We... Read More
Rethinking the Refresh Cycle
The idea of a refresh cycle—a planned, knowable, consistent schedule of hardware updates —is one of the foundations of IT budgeting. For thousands of organizations, a key piece of deciding what the cycle will look like is residual value: how much the hardware will be worth at the end of... Read More
What’s Your 2017 Cybersecurity Crisis Management Plan?
When it comes to a breach, be prepared. Your security incident response plan concerns itself with day-to-day security issues. That’s not to say that malware infections and distributed denial-of-service attacks are not important even if they are day-to-day. A cybersecurity crisis management plan looks at security from another angle. It’s... Read More
Where to spend on IT in 2017
Uncertain times call for wise planning in IT. Global political uncertainty and flat company revenues mean budgets will be stalled for the near future, affecting investment in not just products but people. It sounds dire; however, four clear themes remain relevant in governing IT budget spend for 2017. Hardware and... Read More
Why is IaaS Important?
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) is one of the four (4) basic service models of cloud computing. The other three (3) models include Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS) and Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) respectively. IaaS is an IT model which provides access to... Read More
Identifying and Preventing IT Network Failures
IT network failure can be a serious issue for organisations. In fact, it is more disastrous for small or medium sized businesses as they do not generally have the same resources that large organisations have to safeguard them from such disaster. Therefore, it is important to be prepared against such... Read More
