Productivity in business has been consistently dropping since 2007, according to recent Bureau of Labor statistics. Coincidentally, that was also when the smartphone rose to prominence, becoming an increasingly important part of our day-to-day lives. This begs the question, “Is the sharp decline in productivity over the last decade actually caused by technology?” While some think…
There are an estimated 30 billion connected “things” as of 2020, and it has become quite clear that consumer-grade Wi-Fi routers are simply no longer capable of meeting the needs of small and medium businesses. These days, even smaller businesses are demanding fast, reliable, always-on connectivity for dozens or hundreds of connected devices. However, small…
Internet is mission critical to just about everyone these days but not all Internet providers are equal. When it comes to choosing your business Internet provider, there’s no shortage of options out there, from large communications companies to small cable providers to discount startups. As a small business owner, you want the most reliable and…
At Agility Communications we pride ourselves on being able to offer multiple carrier solutions that fit our client’s needs rather than the carriers. We work with over 100 different carriers and hosted providers. Today we are officially announcing that we are a premier partner with Zoom. While much of the business world jumped on Zoom…
This year’s future looking business report on IT trends and tech adoption plans looks at how IT is adapting in a Covid-19 world. During the rapid rush to remote work, IT departments everywhere rapidly deployed technologies to maintain business continuity during the global health crisis. The massive move to work-from-home spurred shifts in hardware, software…
Network monitoring tools capture the availability of the IT infrastructure components. These tools monitor and collate the availability and resource utilitzation metrics of servers, networks, database instances and storage. The best tools perform real time and historical data analysis or trending of the elements they monitor. There are paid and opensource tools available and here…
1. My son hit his first little league home run. That pretty much overrides anything else that happened to me in 2020. #pride 2. The Mandalorian on Disney+, yes that is nerdy but as a life long Star Wars fan Mando and Baby Yoda made up for all the nonsense the new movies gave us.…
The Covid-19 pandemic has forced us all into a new normal. While many of us feel prepared for flexible working, others haven’t been as optimistic. Staying safe was and continues to be the top priority but as things begin to normalize and productivity remains an important focus many employees are finding remote work gives them…
VoIP providers are constantly pointing out that their solution integrates with your software. I thought it might be helpful to explore a few of the top integrations to show what the actual benefits really are and if they are worth the hype. After all if its just a click to call function that doesnt really…
It wasn’t that long ago that if you wanted to share a file you had to save it to a disc and hand it or mail it to the recipient. In late 2000 the first USB flash drive was sold by IBM. By 2004 we thought we were pretty cool if we carried a “Thumb…