All good things must come to an end and such is the case for Google Cloud Print — Google’s cloud-based printing solution. Google to end Google Cloud Print support.
November of last year, Google announced their intent to discontinue support…
If you are like most people, when Friday roles around, you are so glad it’s the end of the week and are doubtless looking forward to a long restful weekend. It’s why there are such hashtags as #thatfridayfeeling, #fridaymood and #friyay.
Hopefully, by the time…
When it comes to network services, lots of businesses take a seat on the fence to decide which field is greener, assembling an in-house team to manage their networks or to outsourcing to an IT services provider?…
Have you ever bought a service or a subscription only to find yourself alone after you handed over the money or signed the contract? Sure, you may have what you paid for, which is great, but…
When it comes to outsourced network services, most business IT service solutions come in two categories, “break/fix services” or managed services.
So what’s the difference? Break/fix IT service…
There are lots of articles out there about how to identify toxic coworkers and how to deal with such individuals, but what about office technology?
Can’t it be toxic too? Yes, it can. Just like how toxic individuals in the workplace can…
Congratulations! You’ve set up your business’s network with a BDR (Back-up and disaster recovery) system. Now you have a copy of your data off-premises, protecting you from whatever may befall your network, be it viruses, fire, flooding…
So you want to know what makes VoIP business phone service so much better than legacy business phone systems? Well, the “bennies” are many, but here are perhaps the four biggest advantages a VoIP telephone system has over a traditional system…
Want to know which IT service providers in Oklahoma are among the best? Well, according to the results of a recent survey, R.K. Black is among the top three. The Journal Record on Friday released its first issue of Reader Rankings, a list…
Traditional wisdom says to not reinvent the wheel. While that’s good advice, it doesn’t mean the wheel can’t be utilized in ways unimagined by the inventor. Since that October day in 1876 when Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant Thomas…
Endpoint and device management is the practice of provisioning, configuring, securing, monitoring, and maintaining all the devices employees use — desktops, laptops, phones, tablets, and servers — across their entire lifecycle. It keeps every device consistent, current, and protected from a central point of control rather than one machine at
An IT help desk is the support function that helps employees resolve technology problems — password resets, software and email issues, connectivity, and hardware failures — through channels like phone, email, chat, and a ticketing portal. End-user support is the broader practice of keeping people productive by resolving their day-to-day
Print security is the practice of protecting printers, multifunction devices, and the documents they handle from unauthorized access, data theft, and network attacks. Modern printers are networked computers with hard drives and their own operating systems — which makes them a genuine attack surface that needs the same protection as
Backup and disaster recovery (BDR) is the combination of two protections: backup, which copies your business data so it can be restored, and disaster recovery, which is the tested plan for getting systems and operations running again after a disruption. Backup protects the data itself. Disaster recovery protects your ability
Most business networks run invisibly until the moment they don’t. Files open, email flows, applications respond, and nobody thinks about the routers, switches, and firewalls quietly moving all that traffic — right up until a switch fails, an internet circuit drops, or a misconfigured firewall blocks half the office from
The business phone system rarely gets attention until it fails — and then it gets all of it at once. A dropped call with a major client, a phone tree that routes customers into voicemail purgatory, a new office that can’t get lines installed for weeks: communication problems interrupt revenue
Cyber threats have moved from “if” to “when” for businesses of every size. Attackers scanning networks for weak spots don’t discriminate by industry, revenue, or headcount — they’re looking for vulnerabilities, and any business connected to the internet ends up on someone’s target list eventually. The businesses that recover cleanly
Physical mail hasn’t gone away. Invoices, statements, notices, contracts, appeals, marketing pieces, court filings, patient communications, and regulatory correspondence still move by mail in enormous volumes across every industry. The volume shows up on the operations side as labor, on the postage bill as expense, and on the budget as
Every few months a new headline lands about a firewall breach, and the natural reaction is to ask, “Are we exposed?” The latest one—an exposure researchers are calling FortiBleed—is worth your attention, but not for the reason most coverage suggests. The real story isn’t a single vendor’s stumble. It’s that the legacy VPN
