Category: Tech Insight
Unlock new opportunities: How cloud services can fuel MSP growth
A report from Synergy Research Group finds total global spending on cloud services and infrastructure reached $427 billion in the first half of 2024, a 23 percent year-over-year increase. During this time, consumption of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS), and software-as-a-service...
Tech Time Warp: Time for pumpkins, ghosts, and cybersecurity awareness
If you’re reading this, you know it’s important to be cyber-aware 365 days a year, but for more than 20 years, October has been as synonymous in the tech world with cybersecurity as it is with pumpkins and ghosts. In...
Tech Time Warp: The logic bomb that launched an industry
Whether you called it Jerusalem, Friday the 13th, Datacrime, or the Columbus Day virus, the malware was first uncovered in October 1987 and the variants it inspired are remembered nearly 50 years later for the good they did. No—really, you...
Tech Time Warp: The impetus for U.S. national security policy was… a teen movie?
“Is this a game, or is it real?” Eighties movie buffs will recognize this famous line from 1983’s WarGames, where Matthew Broderick plays a teenager who hacks into a defense department computer system. After Broderick’s character guesses an insecure password...
Pioneers in Tech: Dorothy Vaughn, one of the women of Apollo
The woman who became NASA’s first Black manager was honored in July with the renaming of a central building at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Learn all about her trailblazing career in this edition of Pioneers in Tech! On...
Generative AI inference engines create MSP opportunities
More organizations are beginning to operationalize generative artificial intelligence (AI). Along with this, many of them will be looking to managed service providers (MSPs) to help them optimally deploy the inference engines that are needed to analyze data in production...
Tech Time Warp: Back to school and back to hacks
Now that we are past Labor Day, school is back in session across the United States—which means summer vacation is over for cybercriminals, too. Let’s dive into this week’s edition of Tech Time Warp. The education sector is increasingly a...
Data migration expertise: A must-have for MSPs
Managed service providers (MSPs) that have data migration expertise are finding their services are in more demand than ever. A survey of 300 application and software development, IT, and security leaders conducted on behalf of Onymos, found that more than...
Tech Time Warp: Bidding adieu to AppleTalk
Fifteen years ago, Apple quietly discontinued one of its innovations from the 1980s: the AppleTalk networking protocol. When Apple released Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), it ended support for its proprietary local area networking system, moving fully to TCP/IP-based...
MSP expertise needed to enhance cloud services experience
A survey of more than 500 IT professionals, conducted by Civo, a provider of cloud computing services, suggests that well over a third of organizations need some help managing their cloud computing environments. Rising cloud costs are often being ignored...
