Month: September 2017
Tech Time Warp: Happy Birthday to Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word is so synonymous with office life it’s hard to consider it groundbreaking. But next time you’re plodding through TPS reports, think back to October 1983, when word processing wasn’t quite so easy. A lucky few had access to...
Cloud 5: Alibaba’s eye-popping growth, AWS is the one and only
Welcome to The Cloud 5, our weekly feature where we scour the web searching for the five most intriguing and poignant cloud links we can find. Before we jump into this week’s links, please have a look at one of...
MSPs need to focus on cloud security education
It’s already been well established that the No. 1 concern organizations have about deploying application workloads in the cloud is cloud security. But, it turns out there’s also significant confusion about who is responsible for IT security on a public...
Cloud vendors engage in latest feature battle
It’s gotten to the point where if one cloud vendor makes a move, there’s a pretty good chance the competitors will answer with a similar service offering — and we’ve seen this playing out in a big way this month....
Robin Robins: MSP Marketing 101 – When Opportunity Comes Your Way, GRAB IT
By the time you read this, Hurricane Harvey will be old news (I’m writing this just AS it’s starting to pop up on the news radar). As one client pointed out on the Technology Marketing Toolkit member portal, how many...
Managed services demand driven by need to augment, not replace internal IT
Now that more application workloads than ever are running in either a public cloud or a third-party data center, it appears IT organizations are starting to appreciate the value of managed services. A new Voice of the Enterprise survey of...
European organisations are increasingly turning to MSPs to ease security and non-compliance fears
Fear of cyber attack and new European legislation is prompting customers to increasingly seek support through managed services, driving significant growth in the European channel. This is according to a new report by 2112 Group on behalf of Barracuda MSP,...
Tech Time Warp: Copyright protection for computer code
Sept. 22, 1986, marked a milestone in a protracted legal battle between Intel and NEC Corp. over copyright protection of computer code. As they fought for control of the microprocessor market, the two semiconductor companies—Intel American, and NEC Corp. Japanese—found...
Cloud 5: Oracle pokes AWS, GE narrows cloud focus
Welcome to The Cloud 5, our weekly feature where we scour the web searching for the five most intriguing and poignant cloud links we can find. Before we jump into this week’s links, please have a look at one of...
Legacy network infrastructure acts as a drag on strategic IT initiatives
When it comes to IT projects, most organizations are fairly ambitious. From migrating workloads to the cloud to launching Internet of Things (IoT) projects, there is no end of IT projects in sight. Often, the one thing holding back those...