Kim Mays

How much time each day do you spend dealing with interruptions? Probably a lot more than you are willing to admit. Varying amounts of light, work and non-work related phone calls, and the constant popup of email notifications affect our thinking. And between cubicle noise, mobile phone messages, and coworkers walking by, it’s a wonder […]

Considerations for Maintaining Critical Business Continuity After covering tips for small to midsize businesses (SMBs) to minimize data loss, it makes sense to also delve further into disaster recovery. For those businesses that have a mix of infrastructures, including those that store information both onsite and in the cloud, it can be extremely complex to […]

How Business Continuity, Information Security and Risk Management Collaboration Bolsters Business Performance Data loss in any shape or form can prove disastrous for business—especially small to midsize businesses (SMBs). Depending on the occurrence, data recovery can cost from $100 for a commercial data recovery product to thousands for hard drive crashes or catastrophic events such […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2015 Many small to midsize businesses (SMBs) in Kansas City can now sign up for Google Fiber Internet connections for about $100 per month for up to one gigabit, while the consumer offering will cost only $70 per month. Google will charge SMBs $20 per month for a static […]

Many organizations have made a business case for using SharePoint as a collaboration tool for their users. Through the SharePoint site, business users can connect with other users in the enterprise to share files and learn about other departments and workers via social feeds and communities. The most recent version, SharePoint 2013, has been around […]

Agile Federal Data Centers: The Drive to Thrive According to a recent news release, the Pentagon is denying the request from the American Small Business League (ASBL) to release contract data that pertains to contractors that participated in the Comprehensive Subcontracting Plan Test Program (CSPTP). ASBL is seeking to uncover fraud by contractors such as […]

IT Industry Shellshocked in Q3: How to Plan for What’s Next A recent CSO Online article reported on the way that cybercriminals have begun to target message transfer agents (MTAs) with the Shellshock vulnerability to enable botnets to attack systems. Of course, the process can be used on both enterprise systems and small to midsize […]

Computers today use the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) firmware to initialize the hardware process and then turn over control to the operating system. Therefore, any malware that affects the BIOS is a serious threat to the entire computer system. To protect computers from malicious software, IT organizations must also attempt to secure the BIOS firmware. […]

Five Ways Unified Communications Keeps Pace with Your Business Small to midsize businesses (SMBs) in the U.S. have one more thing to worry about these days. Recent reports show that hackers are using a sophisticated fraud plan to route calls from small businesses to “premium-rate telephone numbers” to run up charges and gain from the […]

Five Strategies for Improved SMB Document Efficiency In a previous post, I discussed ways that small to midsize businesses (SMBs) can take their offices paperless. One of the biggest issues that companies face is finding a better way to store all those files than a clunky file cabinet full of papers. Many companies rely on […]

One area of technology that most people give little thought to is the smart grid. The Department of Energy classifies a smart grid as: “… A class of technology people are using to bring utility electricity delivery systems into the 21st Century, using computer-based remote control and automation. These systems are made possible by two-way […]

Top Issues Affecting SMB Employees Today Starting a small to midsize business (SMB) these days seems easier than ever, what with all the technology available to assist with finances, marketing and production. So it wasn’t too surprising to read that a survey by the UK company Post Office found that there has been a “boom […]