Data backup is a must-have for every business, but it isn’t enough to just copy your data; you need to have a data recovery strategy in place to ensure that your business can effectively respond after a data loss incident. Listed below is a look at why considering your recovery strategy early is imperative, and how to prioritize it with everything else going on with your business.
The keyboard that you're using to access this blog is, in a word, gross. While we aren’t going to go into too much detail about what makes keyboards so grimy, we did want to outline how you can easily clean up your keyboard every so often, just to make sure that it’s A: more hygienic, and B: less likely to malfunction at some point.
Most of today's organizations have digitized their businesses to at least some degree without really putting much effort or thought into it. This massive and often unconscious change has created a lot of benefits for businesses with perhaps one of the most overlooked being document digitization. Listed below are the great benefits that come from this initiative and why your business should consider it.
The business telephone solution: you know you need it, but you dislike working with your current telephone provider for a number of reasons. You know you can get a better deal if you look around, but we bet that the best deal around is a hosted Voice over Internet Protocol solution from Macro Systems. How can our VoIP solution save your organization time, energy, and resources?
AI has been a popular topic in recent months and years, which only makes sense. Not only has it been used in more public applications, but it has also caused controversy as it seems to “compete” with people. Back in September, art made by using an artificially intelligent platform caused a stir by winning an art competition, and workplace fears of a computer taking one’s job have seemingly become more well-founded than ever.
For many years now, there’s been a bit of a fear of artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace, all while it has been put into practical use more and more often in many businesses. This all ties back to the work of Alan Turing, who, amongst his accomplishments in computing, created the Turing Test as a means of gauging how intelligent a computer is.
Many jokes have been made in the IT world about the perfect place to hide something being page two of Google; just hang out with some IT professionals, and there’s a good chance you’ll hear it. Alas, Google is making a change to its search results that will make this joke irrelevant.
There’s no denying that at the moment the economic forecast is a bit bleak, with murmurings of a recession growing louder by the day. As this situation develops, many organizations are likely seeking out opportunities to trim the fat. However, despite this, we anticipate that artificial intelligence will actually see a bit of an uptick.
For the average business, the database plays a large role. How large of a role? Your business won’t function the way you want it to function without it. In order to manage your databases correctly, you need a solid database management system (DBMS). Listed below is a discussion about the DBMS and how it works to assist your business computing.
Every piece of technology we regularly use these days was once earth-shakingly innovative, regardless of how mundane and common it seems now. Think about it: people once had endless questions about the Internet, about computers…even about electricity. Listed below are some modern innovations that we have many questions about now, but may someday be just as much of a given as the other tools we so commonly use today.
In what seems to be the final stage of a plan that Microsoft has been moving towards for years, Microsoft Office will apparently be phased fully into the Microsoft 365 brand. Consider what we know so far about this change.
Artificially-intelligent image generation has become a hot topic lately. Not too long ago, an artist created a stir for winning a competition with an image that he largely created using an artificially-intelligent tool. Now, Microsoft has announced that similar AI-powered image generation tools will be integrated into many of their applications.
While using your computer, you have probably seen a black box pop up with a blinking cursor in it. This is what is commonly known as the command prompt, which is a helpful tool for IT administrators to perform certain tasks, but you probably won’t use it much yourself. Having said that, it’s fun to know what it does and what it’s used for!
Technology gets better and more efficient over time, and smartphones are one of today’s standout examples. Although their growth has stagnated a bit in recent years, it’s no small thing to say that smartphone innovation has taken off, providing extremely fast processors, data storage in the cloud, and so much more. Listed below: what you might look at when you buy a new smartphone.
Communications are imperative for businesses of all sizes, including small businesses and their telephone systems. While the technology likely still plays some role in your office, other means of communication have likely come to the forefront. In some ways, the traditional telephone has been left behind…with Voice over Internet Protocol largely taking its place.
When you look at the back of your computer, where the motherboard’s many, many ports are accessible, there’s a substantial variety of connection types available to do a variety of things, some of which may overlap with one another. One key example: the shared capability between USB and HDMI as a means of connecting your PC to many of its peripherals. Let’s consider which is likely to outlast the other.
Business technology is a helpful tool, there’s no way around it. Unfortunately for businesses, technology has to be replaced every so often. Even if the technology doesn’t break, there are innovations made that can help your business do what you do better. The thing is: Technology does break, so you need to understand how to get the most value out of it when it is working.
Downtime is a killer for any company. When a business is forced into confronting its technology support deficits, it usually means that they’ve been dealing with too much broken technology and downtime, and the costs associated with it. One way your organization can avoid losing huge chunks of time to broken technology is to add a professional help desk to support your IT administrator.
Chances are, you’ve gone through some old files, deleting what is no longer required. This is especially critical when you are upgrading your storage and getting rid of your existing storage media or an old computer. Let’s talk about what really happens when you’re doing so—chances are, you may be overlooking a serious security problem.
When it comes to drives for your computer or workstation, you have a few options available to you, one of which is the solid state drive, or SSD. What’s the difference between your typical hard drive and an SSD? Listed below is a break down some of the details about SSDs, including how they are different from your traditional hard disk drive, and why you might contemplate implementing one.
