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What You Need To Know About Technology Planning
If your IT budget isn’t going as far as you’d like, then you need to start planning it sooner rather than later. By understanding the value IT offers, you can learn how to better spend your IT budget. IT planning is a key oversight in today’s business world… Businesses Are Bad At Technology Planning Despite…
Read MoreWhat Is A vCIO And Why Do You Need One?
A Chief Information Officer (CIO) provides an invaluable service for your business. It’s their job to understand your organization completely and offer strategic IT planning, analysis, and overall IT management. They’re dedicated to finding ways to grow your business through new technology and technology-driven processes. By keeping an eye on both your business and the…
Read MoreFirewalls: Why Your Business Needs a Strong One
The term “firewall” has been around for a long time — originally, it had nothing to do with technology. Rather, it was a construction term referring to the walls of buildings built with the specific purpose of preventing fires from spreading inside a structure. These days, it’s most often heard in connection with computer networks. But the…
Read MoreMicrosoft Tips, Tricks, and Updates: The Next Generation of OneDrive
Microsoft has begun rolling out its next generation of OneDrive (I’m already using it). This has a number of helpful features, like enhanced options to view, manage, and create files. It also includes Copilot, which makes searching and organizing files quicker and easier. And it’s all integrated into Microsoft Teams and Outlook, so the entire…
Read MoreCybersecurity: Always a Concern
These days, barely a week goes by that there isn’t news of a significant cybersecurity breach, malware infection, or ransomware attack on an organization, institution, or government. And those are just the ones that make the news; many smaller attacks occur, across the globe, daily. Every company — of any type or size — needs…
Read MoreMicrosoft Tips, Tricks, and Updates: Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) B2B Direct Connect
Consider this scenario: One company owns multiple other companies, each of which chooses to preserve its unique Microsoft environment. Up until now, sharing resources among these organizations was cumbersome and potentially unsecure. B2B Direct Connect solves this by establishing, “a mutual trust relationship with another Azure AD organization for seamless collaboration.” In short, it allows single…
Read MoreVoIP: A Beginner’s Guide
Have you heard of VoIP? It stands for Voice over Internet Protocol. It’s a technology that uses an Internet connection rather than traditional phone lines in allowing users to make phone calls. It’s been around for a long time (SMR has used it for our phone service since 2005), but began to become mainstream 10–15 years ago…
Read MoreMicrosoft Tips, Tricks, and Updates: Microsoft Teams Premium
Microsoft Teams Premium was launched earlier this year as an extra feature for Microsoft 365 subscribers. It helps make meetings better by providing more security and protection for meetings, better administrative and telemetry support, and more features like Virtual Appointments and webinars. Teams Premium allows for unlimited group meetings for up to 30 hours, up to…
Read MoreDifferent Needs Require Different Networks
Have you travelled internationally recently? If so, when you returned to the United States, you may have noticed that there were two lines for immigration — one for U.S. citizens and one for everybody else. The reason is simple: US citizens are subject to fewer limitations and restrictions. As such, the two groups are processed…
Read MoreMicrosoft Tips, Tricks, and Updates: XLOOKUP
There is a relatively new function in Excel called “XLOOKUP.” This replaces an older, more well-known function called “VLOOKUP.”For those who create database lookups within their spreadsheets, the added capabilities of XLOOKUP are significant. This short article lays out the three main differences between the two functions.
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