My previous article on MS Office 365 explained its growing network and its worldwide availability in over 246 markets and 44 languages. By now, we know for a fact that Office 365 provides the broadest and deepest set of apps and services with a universal toolkit for teamwork, giving people flexibility and choice in how they connect, share, and communicate.
Whether you are working in your office premises or on-the-go, enjoy the benefits of MS office 365 new apps, features, and top-of-the-line set of productivity tools. Office 365 accelerates the path of ‘digital transformation’ by adding new extensions to your work. With its universal toolkit, it gives the flexibility to streamline teamwork, provides flexibility and choice of how people can connect, share and communicate. Whenever and wherever you are, it lets you create, edit, and share important data from your PC/Mac, your iOS, Android™, or Windows device with anyone in real time.
Cybersecurity: How to Stay Secure? Always
According to a popular article by Forbes, more than 200 billion things will be connected via Internet by 2020. Everything including cars, planes, homes, cities, and even animals are getting connected through technological intervention. As technology is getting more and more deeply integrated into our lives, cyber risk is becoming bigger than ever.
Public Cloud vs. Private Cloud vs. Hybrid Cloud Storage
Moving to the Cloud for running and storing information for your business is no longer a new idea but has become a standard practice. According to the 2017 survey on Cloud adoption by RightScale, 95% of respondents are running their applications on Cloud storage.
According to a popular survey report by the famous news and reviews channel ‘CommsTrader’, more than 55% of organisations use Skype for Business for internal communication. Being a fully-functional business communication tool, it allows seemless connectivity between coworkers or business partners anywhere in the world. To grow an organization, a great team is the corner stone and to build a great team, great communication is the building block for it. This has been simplified with all features listed in Skype for Business as users can enjoy instant messaging all day and simplify their office infrastructure. If you want to experience its numerous functionalities, ICTechnology is providing a ‘Free demo’ for all. Just one great app for messaging, calling, meetings, video, conferencing, file storage and screen sharing that works with all popular Office tools. It seems to synchronize your complete business communication, among all levels of the organization.
MS Office 365 is one of the “fastest growing tools” in the history of cloud computing. According to Microsoft, an increment of almost 150% is recorded among small and medium size businesses (SMBs) adopting this technology, as compared to the last year. Some amazing features that make it so popular are business continuity, scalability, efficiency, and data recovery. If you are still unsure about migrating to cloud with Office 365, check out these new product add-ons that will convince you to change the way you operate:
Kaspersky Small Office Security– Anti Ransomware for SMBs
Over the years, IT security has been a big concern among many business organisations. In 2015 and 2016, a large number of cyber incidents involving ransomware were registered at Kaspersky lab. A large ransomware family including ExPetr, WannaCry, Bitman, Onion, Shade, Mor, Locky, CryptXXX, Zerber, Shade, Crysis, Cryrar, Snocry, Cryptodef and Spora tried to extort money from businesses in exchange for their sensitive data. According to an IT Security Risks 2016 Survey, more than 42% of small and mid-size companies were attacked by ransomware. One-third of the enterprises had to pay the ransom demanded by attackers and only 18% of the companies were able to restore their lost data even after paying ransom. That’s why there is an urgent need of a smart and secure anti ransomware solution to prevent any security breach that can bring a business to a standstill.
Top 5 Things Your IT Disaster Recovery Plan should Cover
Most organizations know the risk of security attacks and hence they usually have a IT disaster recovery (DR) plan to protect their businesses. Chances are, you are also following a DR plan for the safety of your business. How would you recognise that your DR plan is robust that it will stand a deadly ransomware attack? Do you recall the Brisbane, BEC Scam 2016 where scammers targeted the Brisbane city council through series of fake invoices? In this scam, the city council lost close to $450,000. This is a clear case of a disaster that happened in terms of cyber-attacks. Business organisations should stay vigilant at all times. A strong DR plan is always recommended for businesses to prevent their data from any kind of security breach.
In today’s highly dynamic work environment, Cloud Computing is a proven technology to make your business more efficient and thus, profitable. According to different researches and statistics numbers, incorporating Cloud technology to any business, big or small, results in high quality of services with the lowest expenses on operational needs.
27% of the larger organisations have already shifted their ERP to the Cloud and 78% are more likely to switch. However, small businesses are still stuck with old traditional systems and don’t want to move on. It can be due to multiple reasons. Let’s dig deeper into this issue:
According to a popular research, 80% of companies including SMBs that adopt ‘Cloud Computing’ see improvements in their IT spend within six months. Another report by ‘Telsyte’ forecasts that the total market value for Public Cloud infrastructure services in Australia will reach up to $775 million by 2019 from $366 million in 2015.
These facts are a clear indication that SMBs can achieve lower operations cost by replacing their regular IT systems with public cloud offerings, even business in critical areas such as business intelligence, customer relationship management (CRM) or enterprise resource planning (ERP). Increased flexibility with Cloud computing allows SMB employees to be more mobile - both in and out of the workplace. This generates the need of expert managed service providers that can bring mobility to your organisation.
Let's take a deeper look into the top five drivers for hiring managed service providers (MSP):