Month: April 2019
Open source movement pushes limits of available IT expertise
The rate at which organizations are adopting open source software appears to be approaching a tipping point, in terms of the ability of internal IT teams to absorb it.
MSP Day 2019 – The Sequel
As we approach the full bloom of Spring, it’s easy to see how the IT channel might be looking beyond this landmark to the next big date in their calendars: May 23rd, and the second annual MSP Day. The global...
Tip Tuesday: Making an Impactful Customer Connection
Are you connecting with your customers effectively? Even with new technology at our fingertips, businesses still rely heavily on email and phone calls as a means of communication. In a 2018 report, The Radicati Group estimated that the number of...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory: Adobe Flash Zero Day Patch
What is the Issue: Adobe has recently released an emergency patch for a Flash Zero-Day vulnerability, that when exploited properly can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, and enable information disclosure. Most current web browsers block Adobe Flash all...
Growth Hacking for MSPs: Fundamentals
The future of business is technical. From a marketing perspective, this theoretical strategy, known as “growth hacking” has bounced around Silicon Valley for almost decades with companies such as Dropbox, Zynga, and Instagram leading the way. As more tools are...
How MSPs help grow startups
When you think of Managed Service Providers (MSPs), you probably think of companies that provide IT services for small and medium sized businesses, but these companies can be more than that. They can help grow startups too. That’s because MSPs...
Cybersecurity Threat Advisory Google Chrome Content Security Policy
What is the Issue? Chrome’s security team described the issue as the web browser’s incorrect handling of CSP headers (CVE-2018-6148). They noted on their blog – “Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until a majority of...
How you can prevent employees from sharing sensitive company information
Did you know that 70 percent of employees are sharing company information? Company information is valuable, critical, and most importantly, confidential. The future growth and success of your company could very well be destroyed should this data get leaked. So what’s the...
Tech Time Warp: Apple co-founder Ronald Wayne says goodbye after only 12 days
They say hindsight is 20/20, or — in the case of Apple’s lesser-known third co-founder Ronald Wayne — billions of dollars. On April 1, 1976, Wayne drew up a contract with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak to found Apple Computer...
It is the best and worst of times to be an IT services provider
Every savvy solution provider knows that IT is, and always will be, in a perennial state of disruption. The only thing that ever really changes is the rate at which that disruption occurs.
