Month: July 2018
Proliferation of file repositories drives greater need for managed services
Much to the probable chagrin of IT leaders the number of places that end users can store files has rapidly expanded. A new survey of 160 IT professionals conducted by Cloudtenna, a provider of enterprise search tools, finds that on...
Cloud 5: A cloud history and what’s coming next
Welcome to the final 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...
Lessons from the Amazon Prime Day fiasco
Earlier this month, Amazon held its annual Prime Day. It’s a day when thousands of Amazon Prime customers come together on the Amazon website to pick through the hundreds of bargains being offered by the shopping site. It’s supposed to...
Advanced Analytics Creates Opportunity for MSPs to Transform IT Operations
A new report published this week by Dresner Advisory Services sheds some light on how IT organizations want to apply advanced analytics to optimize IT operations. The 2018 IT Analytics Market Study finds that the top four management metrics in...
Robin Robins: Declare independence from random acts of marketing
One of the biggest reasons people fail in marketing is that they never get beyond random, episodic campaigns to marketing assets built on SYSTEMS and PROCESS. The other day a marketing manager asked if we had any “summer” campaigns she...
Smart homes highlight growing IoT security vulnerabilities
Smart homes — residences powered by connectivity and the cloud — are exploding in their proliferation. Statista’s statistics predict the number of homes in the U.S. with “smart appliances” will jump from roughly 15 million today to 37 million by 2022. And that’s...
How Google neutralized phishing attacks and what you can learn from them
Google announced a remarkable achievement this week — not one of its 85,000 employees has been the victim of a phishing attack since the beginning of 2017. Phishing refers to when a hacker sends an email that looks authentic for...
IT Leaders Need a Little Extra Digital Process Transformation Help from MSP Friends
There’s naturally a lot of hype these days when it comes to digital process transformation. But a survey of 200 CIOs and IT directors published today by Trace3, an IT services provider, suggests the most important areas of IT focus...
Carrie Simpson: The Myth of the Outbound Stack
Many companies are now spending thousands per sales rep per month on complicated technology sales prospecting “stacks.” That’s fine, if that’s where you want to invest your sales and marketing spend. But, at $1,000 per seat per month with my current...
Tech Time Warp: Happy 50th Birthday, Intel!
Your Intel insides are officially middle-aged. On July 18, 1968, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, formerly employees of Fairchild Semiconductor, officially founded microprocessor giant Intel in Santa Clara, California. Differing from other tech fairy tales, Intel didn’t get its start...
