Customizing your display settings is one of the best methods to make Windows 10 feel like your own experience. There are a lot of settings you can change to your specific liking. Macro Systems will walk you through how you can change the settings on your displays, whether it’s a new monitor or an ancient one.
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has become increasingly more popular with businesses recently. The number of benefits that it offers to businesses (small organizations especially) makes your traditional telephone system look outdated and amateurish.
Planning for data security isn’t the easiest thing in the world, especially if your business doesn’t have any dedicated security professionals on-hand. While securing your data with traditional methods, like passwords and firewalls is imperative, what measures are you taking to make sure a thief or hacker isn’t just walking into your office and pilfering your technology?
If you are a business owner that has been in business for a decade you’ve probably seen how emerging technologies have altered the face of business. Technologies such as cloud computing have created opportunities for many businesses to get the powerful computing infrastructures they need without enormous upfront costs. As this trend continues, the IT services have begun to move past core IT management and support and onto providing real solutions for the modern business. Let's take a look at how the Managed Service Provider (MSP) is at the forefront of a data revolution that has no end in sight.
Windows 10 just received a second update for 2018. Some experts believe this many significant updates to the OS is too many, but when you begin to look at the features available thanks to this second update, you may be happy that Microsoft has decided to release it (and re-release it). Below, we'll take a look at the new update, as well as a few of the convenient features that it has rolled out to users.
It seems that to have a computer these days is to have a Google account. If one isn’t utilized for professional purposes, it is utilized as a personalized solution; the convenience and accessibility of these accounts alone are compelling, even before one considers the versatility that this account brings with it. Alas, these benefits can be quickly overshadowed by risk if a Google account’s security is overlooked.
Smartphones are astonishing and as a result many people now have one. Thus, when the annual financials were revealed, it was surprising to see that the smartphone market was diminishing. There are many reasons for this, but the main one has to be that older devices are holding up well compared to newer devices. This results in consumers being less likely to make the significant investment to purchase the latest device.
One of the most vital aspects of smartphones is how portable they are; business professionals can be productive no matter where they are. Alas, this also means that they have more of an opportunity to lose their devices, along with the data they contain. If the device is Android-based, then you can alleviate this trouble thanks to built-in features that can help you locate it.
The cloud has helped many organizations push beyond their limits, but is yours taking advantage of it? Depending on the needs of your specific company, the cloud can aid your business in ways you could never dream of just 20 years ago. Listed below are some of the best ways the cloud can benefit your business.
An email’s imperative
This much is clear fact -
However you need to stay safe
From an email cyberattack.
The gift card may be the perfect (if impersonal) gift; however, these convenient little plastic rectangles may not be so perfect after all. In 2018, they’ve been a vital component to a business email compromise scam that has been popular recently.
Were you one the 55.3 percent of employees who took their work devices on the road during this holiday season? Odds are that if you have employees who find it difficult to complete their duties in the office, they’ll take it home with them over the holidays to ensure they don’t fall behind. However, they could potentially be exposing critical data to risk by doing this.
Modern businesses utilize so many solutions that it can be challenging just to keep them all in line, let alone managing and maintaining them. Naturally, the most difficult part of utilizing so much technology is affording it. While you could invest in software licenses for each and every one of your users’ systems, there is an alternative that you should definitely contemplate.
With the holiday season here, finding solid gifts for the technology lover in your life may actually be more difficult than you’d think. People will often get paralysis from trying to find the right gift and end up going the gift card route because there are just so many options. Macro Systems has five great gift ideas for the technology fan in your life.
The holiday season has arrived! Why not give the IT professional in your life a few things that they’ve been wishing for all year? Macro Systems has compiled a list of gifts you can give them, some of which will cost you and your business nothing.
Modern security solutions have made good strides to protect businesses, but there are still a lot of threats out there that can cause problems for your business. If you don’t take a proactive stance on security, you could leave your network vulnerable to incoming threats of all types. Macro Systems will help your business comprehend what threats are out there, why they are dangerous, and what you can do to keep your business secure.
No matter how big a company is, it has to leverage at least some IT in order to be productive. Alas, some businesses are resistant to implement new technology if they don’t think they need it immediately. What these organizations don’t know is that the reason they usually don’t implement new solutions (saving money) is in direct conflict with what the solutions are designed to do in the first place.
The #1 reason to utilize managed IT services is the value it provides for your organization compared to the alternatives. Once upon a time businesses may have depended on unreliable and expensive services to successfully maintain their IT, but in this current era, it’s more efficient and, in most cases, more affordable than ever before. Let's go through how managed service providers can create value opportunities for your organization.
No organization can be successful if it’s constantly suffering from data breaches. Thus, you should take measures to reduce the problems caused by these threats before they present themselves. Listed below are four of the biggest problems your company could encounter in the field of network security.
Cloud computing can be utilized for many purposes, especially in the business environment. Businesses of all shapes and sizes utilize the cloud to keep operations moving smoothly. Some have even moved their entire human resources and payroll departments into the cloud. Macro Systems can help you decide if this is the right approach for your business.
