Although remote working was hardly new in 2020, the coronavirus forced many organizations to implement remote work strategies overnight. Technology and employee preferences were taking businesses in this direction anyway. The pandemic just accelerated the process.

Emerging cybersecurity strategy can make vulnerable remote workers harder to hit.

“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can’t hit what the eyes can’t see.”
Who could have guessed that Muhammad Ali’s famous quote about his boxing style would one day describe a new paradigm in cybersecurity? Like the famously quick boxer, the emerging security strategy aims to thwart attackers through continual movement and diversion.

Cloud applications and services won’t manage themselves. Now what?

The cloud makes it possible to reduce capital expenditures in IT infrastructure while gaining access to advanced technology solutions. Cloud services are faster to implement than on-premises IT infrastructure, and provides an “always-on” environment that better meets today’s business requirements.

It is impossible to overstate the importance of an effective backup and disaster (BDR) recovery solution. If you can’t recover data following a natural disaster, system failure or cyberattack, your business may not survive. Even a short interruption in service can be financially crippling — new research from Datto finds that the average cost of downtime has increased nearly 600 percent over the past three years.

Email turns 50 years old this year, and it seems as though analysts having been predicting the technology’s impending demise for at least half that time. Instead, it continues to be the de facto standard for business communication with upwards of 300 billion messages sent and received every single day.

A recent global survey illustrates the critical need for reliable, modern communications technologies to support remote business operations during the ongoing pandemic. Nearly three-quarters of businesses surveyed by the Savanta research firm say the shift to remote work exposed shortcomings in their systems.

Organizations didn’t have much time to prepare when the pandemic forced a sudden shift to a work-from-home (WFH) model. Many employees and even IT managers had no choice but to figure it out on the fly. Given the circumstances, businesses were remarkably successful at navigating such a significant change to continue functioning.

Many IT teams are struggling to resolve the technology issues 
associated with remote work. Managed services can help.

The shift to remote work has largely been successful, enabling organizations to remain operational amid pandemic-related shutdowns and social distancing requirements.

Unified communications solutions from one strategic 
partner deliver business value in unexpected ways.

Business communication and collaboration tools have enabled organizations to continue operations as employees have shifted to remote work. Online chat, instant messaging, video conferencing and file-sharing have supplemented email to facilitate decision-making and business processes.

If the COVID-19 pandemic hit 15 years ago, think about how many more thousands of small-to-midsize businesses (SMBs) would have been forced to shut down.

Technology has made it possible for many SMBs to survive the disruption caused by the pandemic.