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Shadow IT has been featured in the headlines for years, often as a massive headache for enterprise IT. Line of business managers swiping credit cards to pay for services outside IT’s watchful eye created a scare in the industry, as did BYOD and the idea that employees would share corporate data through consumer file-sharing applications. […]

Secrets: Managing Information Assets in the Age of Cyberespionage In this excerpt, Pooley focuses on managing your information assets, specifically looking at how to keep them safe, stay out of trouble, and maximize their utility in your business. Information is the business asset of the twenty-first century, so our impulse may be to guard it. […]

Many considerations go into making a sales call, from knowing buyer value to understanding where they are on the path to purchase. More often than not, what’s missing is knowing the best time to reach a prospect over the phone to increase the chances of having a live conversation and, ultimately, nurturing a lead. Analyzing […]

“Storage Wars” is a popular reality TV show, but the title may seem all too real to enterprises trying to deal with storage demands as they drown in data. The battlefield has changed dramatically. Organizations are faced with storing billions or even trillions of files – increasingly unstructured data, large digital files such as videos […]

Microsoft’s Windows software is ubiquitous. In fact, there are over a billion installations worldwide – on phones, desktops and laptops, servers, tablets, and in the cloud. Historically, there have been different versions of Windows for each device but, with Windows 10, Microsoft is simplifying things with a single OS for all devices. The main reason […]

Only six years after the first personal computer was introduced in 1975, the world was introduced to the very first computer virus: Elk Cloner. It was written to infect the Apple LLC’s operating system, known then as Apple DOS 3.3. Once the virus was triggered, it displayed a poem explaining how Elk Cloner was copying […]

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With Labor Day behind us, most people are (perhaps begrudgingly) soaking up the final days of summer… but what if your summer never really began? A recent survey from Ipswitch reveals that a majority of IT professionals really felt the heat this summer working to ensure that employees stayed connected, productive and in touch from any […]

Job Description: SEO Specialist The SEO Specialist will be accountable for conducting competitor research, keyword research, SEO writing, and other content optimizations as needed. We are seeking an SEO Specialist to perform keyword research, content optimization and other key SEO tasks for client accounts. We are looking for someone with a track record of both […]

Analyzing large amounts of data across a multitude of business systems enables companies to optimize the performance of the sales team, identify patterns in the industry, or determine the efficacy of marketing. A variety of tools enable organizations to prepare the data, but if the quality is insufficient, it will provide unreliable insights. Data connectivity […]

Everyone wants to do great things, but few actually do. Why? Most people are either afraid to think big, believe they don’t have what it takes, or don’t want to commit to putting in the kind of effort required to accomplish anything truly great. The truth is that nothing great happens without intense effort. Plans […]

Imagine for a minute that you are a small online retailer of sunglasses. You don’t have a brick-and-mortar store, but you offer all the traditional brands that customers would purchase either online or in-store, all at a great price. When a customer is looking to purchase a certain brand of sunglasses and types the brand […]