New Blackberry Z10 Deployment:
Recently our company decided to refresh our mobile phones. We needed a smart phone that would work well with both our field based Technical and Sales teams. We were an existing Blackberry account so after careful review we decided familiarity for users and a patriotic sense of 'Oh Canada' would lead us to adopt the new Blackberry Z10 series phones.
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Topics:
technology tools,
e-mail,
Software,
server software,
IT network,
IT support
In a recent release of the 1st half of 2013 State of SMB IT Report conducted by Spiceworks Voice of IT market insights program some strong trends are shown.
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Topics:
technology tools,
network server,
cloud computing,
IT network,
SMB
Every business person using a computer knows that it is important to back up their electronic data regularly so it can be recovered in the event of hardware or software failure. Unfortunately not everyone does this and even those that do don't always use the best methods or tools. Failure to put proper steps in place and then following them religiously can lead to serious consequences.
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Topics:
Computer,
network server,
network backup,
IT network,
IT support,
network security
Even though many small businesses still don't have a full fledged backup strategy in place there is a more critical change taking over as more and more businesses understand that they cannot operate without considering what would happen with a complete IT network shut down.
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Topics:
network backup,
IT network,
IT support
Many companies struggle to decide what they really need for I.T. network backup. Everyone knows that there is a need to backup critical files such as accounting and inventory data. For many organizations they understand that email is also a mission critical application and they need to have a backup strategy for this as well.
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Topics:
Computer,
network server,
cloud computing,
network backup,
IT network
MS Exchange is an extremely important part of many companies' I.T. environment. For most end users they see it as the popular Outlook interface but in the background Exchange is managing the file storage, transfer and backup of the growing data base of email material.
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Topics:
e-mail,
network server,
network backup,
IT network
There are a number of ways that IT service can be contracted for your office I.T. network. The most common are managed services plans and time billing plans. There are significant differences between these two, even though they may look like they are similar on the surface.
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Topics:
IT network,
IT support,
managed services plan
We had an IT network system failure recently and our email was down for several days due to data corruption. Over the years the data base to our Exchange email had grown to a pretty big size so running the necessary tools to clean the corruption and recover our system took a long time. We're talking many hours spread over several days.
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Topics:
Computer,
software tools,
IT network,
IT support