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…
Video conferencing adoption is booming. According to Frost & Sullivan research, the overall video and web conferencing market is on a high growth trajectory and is forecast to grow from $8.5 billion in 2017 to $11.0 billion by 2023. It’s no wonder then, that many tech giants are battling to win customers in this fast-growing…
Fiber-optic Internet, commonly called fiber is a dedicated high speed Internet connection that reaches (not just advertises) speeds of up to 940mb per second with low lag time. The technology uses fiber-optic cables which send data as fast as 70% the speed of light. Fiber is not as susceptible to severe weather as other types…
Whether out of necessity or to meet personal preferences, there will be plenty of times when your users need to work remotely. When they do, being able to tackle tasks without interruptions and delays will keep your company operational. The Covid-19 Pandemic changed the way we all do business. The way we work will never…
According to a 2017 U.S. government survey, about 44% of households still own traditional phones, down from 53% three years before—but still much higher than, say, the share of those buying vinyl records, another cultish throwback. Analog landlines go through traditional “POTS” (Plain Old Telephone Service) copper phone lines — the type that has been…