Category: Tech Insight

Tech Time Warp
Tech Time Warp: Back to school and back to hacks

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...

/ September 6, 2024
data migration
Data migration expertise: A must-have for MSPs

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...

/ September 3, 2024
Tech Time Warp
Tech Time Warp: Bidding adieu to AppleTalk

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...

/ August 30, 2024
cloud services
MSP expertise needed to enhance cloud services experience

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...

/ August 26, 2024
Tech Time Warp
Tech Time Warp: Have you ever wondered about the history of cut, copy, and paste?

Tech Time Warp: Have you ever wondered about the history of cut, copy, and paste?

For many of us, using the keyboard shortcuts for cut, copy, and paste is as second nature as flipping a light switch. Whether you’re a Mac (Command-) or a PC (Ctrl+) user, these shortcuts make life easier and word processing...

/ August 23, 2024
MSPs IT
How MSPs can turn IT crisis management into opportunity

How MSPs can turn IT crisis management into opportunity

Newton’s third law of physics holds that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. The recent global IT outage, impacting roughly 8.5 million devices running older variants of Windows, is no exception. The two most immediate impacts will be...

/ August 19, 2024
Tech Time Warp
Tech Time Warp: Reflecting on the Ken Thompson hack

Tech Time Warp: Reflecting on the Ken Thompson hack

In 1983, Ken Thompson and Dennis M. Ritchie received the prestigious A.M. Turing Award for “their development of generic operating systems theory and specifically for the implementation of the UNIX operating system.” However, this look back at technology history is...

/ August 16, 2024
mitigate risks
How MSPs can prepare for future PC outages

How MSPs can prepare for future PC outages

A recent global event has demonstrated how vital it is to maintain a reliable IT infrastructure. This is including its access points such as endpoint devices, as it is the backbone of many essential services. While the event may seem...

/ August 14, 2024
Pioneers in Tech
Pioneers in Tech: How Barbara Liskov revolutionized computer science

Pioneers in Tech: How Barbara Liskov revolutionized computer science

After earning a bachelor’s degree in mathematics in 1961 from the University of California, Berkeley, Barbara Liskov applied to graduate school at Princeton University. In response to her application, Liskov received a form letter informing her the school didn’t accept...

/ August 9, 2024
Tech Time Warp
Tech Time Warp: The golden age of Minitel

Tech Time Warp: The golden age of Minitel

With all eyes on Paris thanks to the 2024 Summer Olympics, it makes sense to turn our attention to a uniquely French chapter in technology history: the Minitel. You may remember this innovation from your French language textbook, much like...

/ August 2, 2024