The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect in May. Although it is widely considered to be among the most strict data privacy laws ever enacted, few organizations have made proper preparations. Ninety-three percent of global organizations surveyed in April by the business analytics company SAS said they are not yet fully GDPR compliant.
Given the critical nature of today’s IT systems and networks, the traditional break-fix service model is inching closer to obsolescence. The speed of business requires a more proactive approach to problem resolution, which is why remote management and monitoring (RMM) solutions have become essential.
The Angelbeat seminar “experience” educates attendees on today’s immediate issues and tomorrow’s growing priorities, covering these inter-related topics that increasingly share a common decision-making process/team, with lengthy breaks for peer networking and product demonstrations.
Organizations of all sizes and in all industries are eager to exploit emerging technologies, but staff limitations often frustrate attempts to launch high-level initiatives. Even companies with in-house IT staff struggle to keep pace with day-to-day operations much less accelerating technology change.
Email is perhaps the original “killer app,” an application so effective and easy to use that it sparked the rise of the personal computer and the spread of the Internet. Today it is the de facto standard for business communication with more than 4 billion email accounts worldwide generating nearly 200 billion messages every day.
Today's fast-paced business demands that applications and data are highly available. Systems are required to be resilient to all types of outages. Achieving High Availability (HA) for your IT environment can be costly, complicated and can rely heavily on adding to your server infrastructure.
In our last post, we discussed some of the warning signs of IT failures, along with suggestions for identifying and correcting problems. However, there are times when things just can’t be fixed. Servers, printers and PCs have moving parts that wear out.
From sales and marketing to manufacturing and shipping, virtually every aspect of modern business has been fundamentally changed by information technology. IT advances boost productivity, efficiency and collaboration to expand the range of what’s possible for businesses of all shapes and sizes.
In the digital age, myths and misperceptions are difficult to dispel. Bill Gates, Floyd Mayweather and Eminem aren’t giving away large sums of money on Facebook. A dying English boy doesn’t want your business card. A Nigerian prince isn’t going to transfer his family fortune into your bank account.
The “break-fix” approach once was the standard model for acquiring IT support. When a company needed computer repairs, network tuning or any other form of tech-related service, they engaged a solution provider on a straightforward fee-for-service basis and paid the bill once the work was completed.
