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Here’s How To Choose The Right Laptop For Your Specific Needs

Here’s How To Choose The Right Laptop For Your Specific Needs

Laptops are great - most of them have the capabilities of a personal computer, yet are portable enough to move around whenever you need a change of environment. Even with the rise of the smartphone and, more recently, the...





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Business Management Tips: The Importance Of Good IT Infrastructure

August 23, 2021 No Comments

A business’s success is determined by several factors including leadership, marketing, and operations. Those are usually the first things that come to mind. Yet, what most people don’t think of right away, even though they should, is the business’s IT infrastructure. In our technology-driven world, IT is baked into everything. Since it’s a major part of how we live and work, mastering it is essential to a business’s survival. How you implement IT is critical to the business’s security, growth, and scalability.

Here’s How To Choose The Right Laptop For Your Specific Needs

August 20, 2021 No Comments

Laptops are great – most of them have the capabilities of a personal computer, yet are portable enough to move around whenever you need a change of environment. Even with the rise of the smartphone and, more recently, the smartwatch, the laptop has still managed to withstand the competition to be an item most of us need to work on.

Cloud Performance Webinar: How to Architect Your Cloud Apps for Peak Business Performance

August 19, 2021 No Comments

As an IT operations professional responsible for architecting cloud environments, you need to know how to architect cloud apps for peak business performance. AWS and cloud training experts, A Cloud Guru, will provide an introduction to the AWS Well-Architected Framework (WAF) and architecting in the cloud, then explore best practices and practical examples of peak business performance.

Module 5: Continuous Testing

August 19, 2021 No Comments

Join this workshop from AWS and the DevOps Institute to learn how to implement continuous testing to shorten test cycles, increase code quality and deliver better features faster.

9 Ways Technology Has Affected Teaching During Pandemic

August 19, 2021 No Comments

The pandemic has led to significant changes in education. The level of education directly affects the income and employment of the population – better-educated people find jobs easier, have better working conditions, and earn more. Education is also positively linked to life expectancy, health, and social integration. Education is a fundamental human right enshrined in Article 26 of the Declaration of Human Rights.

Affinity Federal Credit Union Implements Self-Service Analytics Program

August 11, 2021 No Comments

While self-service data analytics requires the right technologies, promoting the use of data throughout an organization demands strong data literacy and non-intrusive governance, as well. During our webinar, How to Scale Self-Service Analytics for Smarter Decision-Making, we spoke with John Ackerman, VP of Data and Analytics at Affinity Federal Credit Union about their success with adopting a modern data architecture and facilitating data empowerment.

Make Power BI Shine on Snowflake, BigQuery & Redshift

August 11, 2021 No Comments

Why is this such huge news? To date, there has never been a great, live query experience on Power BI for Snowflake, BigQuery, RedShift, Databricks and even Azure Synapse SQL. Historically, Power BI has only supported “DirectQuery” access for cloud data sources. “Live Query” provided by AtScale’s DAX connector will deliver extreme performance benefits for these applications. Coupled with the AtScale semantic layer, the combination of analytics-ready data with the ease of use of Power BI is a terrific combination.

5 Ways to Know You Should Start Using a Cloud-Based Hotel-Management System

July 15, 2021 No Comments

Hotel management is by no means an easy thing. It’s a remarkably competitive industry, and a few bad months can sink a hotel in some instances. You must do all you can to make sure your hotel is running smoothly, including using whatever new technology comes out. A cloud-based hotel management system is something you might have considered before, but maybe you felt like it wasn’t worth it or you could live without it. There might come a time, though, when making this move makes all the sense in the world.

5 Major Cloud Computing Challenges And How To Overcome Them

July 2, 2021 No Comments

The advent of technology also means that so many more technological advancements are used in many businesses today. Among the many, cloud computing is a common name that’s almost always present. It’s a popular trend, used in many businesses. And, to remove its technicality for better understanding even for most non-techy business individuals out there, it’s as its name suggests. Cloud computing refers to moving manual business computing, to an automated system, through the cloud.

A Step-by-Step Guide to Cloud Migration

June 16, 2021 No Comments

Despite the rapid penetration of cloud infrastructure, a lot of businesses are still relying on on-premise solutions for their day-to-day operations. On-premise solutions are seen as more reliable and easier to manage due to their proximity. Of course, these are advantages that are also offered by modern cloud infrastructure, especially with multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud implementations becoming more common among enterprises.

Why Software Vendors Still Audit Their Customers

June 14, 2021 No Comments

Software license compliance audits remain a key part of the strategy for many of the world’s large software vendors. It is a practice that causes conflict between software providers and their customers and has made it necessary for Software Asset Management to grow into a multi-billion-dollar industry. Whilst a handful of vendors are beginning to pull back from full-scale invasive audits, the vast majority continue with this unpopular and relationship damaging practice.

Top 5 Enterprise Technology Trends in 2021

May 25, 2021 No Comments

COVID-19 shook the world in a swift blow. People realized how it might take only a tiny virus to change everything in the blink of an eye. Business models collapsed within weeks after this virus spread across the globe. The one thing that the year 2020 taught all of us is to be prepared for unforeseen events. While some of the industries thrived, small enterprises jiggled badly last year as many of the merchants didn’t take technology seriously. To get back up in the market, they must rely on enterprise technology trends that are going to revolutionize the economic world.

Could Mobile Applications Be The Secret To Making Positive Investments

May 13, 2021 No Comments

When looking to make an investment, you want to make sure that you are making hugely profitable investments that are right for you. But how can a mobile application help you to make an investment that is profitable for you? In this article, we will be providing you with information on how a mobile app such as these can help you to maintain positive investments.

The Secrets To Creating Impressive Corporate Video Presentations

April 27, 2021 No Comments

Making an impressive corporate video may be difficult if you’re not an expert. Fortunately, you can hire companies like Vmation corporate video production professionals for your video needs. But if you’re working on a tight budget, you can make your own video if you equip yourself with a few tips. This article highlights the secrets of creating impressive corporate video presentations.

The New Normal: How the Cloud and COVID-19 Have Impacted B2B Sales

April 14, 2021 No Comments

In this interview, Mert Yentur, CEO of Pitcher discusses the changes that SaaS models and COVID have had on sales enablement technology, including which features are most likely to become permanent.

4 Tech Initiatives That Help Fight Against COVID-19

March 23, 2021 No Comments

Whether in medicine or business, the COVID-19 pandemic has done away with the old world. The harsh reality is that it revealed a lot that’s wrong with how the world has done many things up to this point. It forced everyone to go back to the drawing board and take a hard look in the mirror.

How Business Technology Has Improved Over The Years

March 4, 2021 No Comments

Technology made the proliferation of large companies possible; large companies today make technology indispensable. From the humblest business run by one person to humongous multi-national corporations employing thousands, technology is proving to be one crucial tool that any business of any size simply cannot do without. Since time immemorial, businesses have always used whatever technology is available, whether to improve production, to attract more customers, or to find new markets.

Cloud ERP amidst COVID-19

March 3, 2021 No Comments

COVID-19 pandemic has led to several consequences. The rate at which it spread created grave concerns, and social distancing became the norm to curb the spread. Due to this, many businesses had to shut down their offices. But, at the same time, they needed radical solutions to ensure that their day-to-day operations did not suffer. Online portals and platforms were the answers to this new problem. Therefore, integrated cloud operations got its high acceptance among businesses. Many Cloud ERP suites have now become the new pillar of running companies.

How Technology is Transforming the Hiring Process in 2021

February 9, 2021 No Comments

Rapidly developing technology is a defining catalyst for change across all industries, and job recruitment is no different. Big tech has wholly upended the hiring process as we know it in the last ten years. If you consider that people used to hand out resumes in person and big corporations put job ads in newspapers, the impact technology has had on hiring is impressive.

Open Telemetry Project taps observIQ log management to fix cloud observability and interoperability gaps

January 28, 2021 No Comments

The Open Telemetry Project, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project providing an observability framework for cloud-native software, has tapped observIQ’s open source log agent Stanza as the key component for log collection. The OpenTelemetry Project has wide industry support including contributions from Google, Amazon, Splunk, New Relic and others for its observability framework – software and tools that assist IT professionals in generating and capturing telemetry data from cloud-native software.

Beyond Legacy Thinking: 3 Suggestions for SME IT Admins Considering the Shift to the Cloud

January 21, 2021 No Comments

For those of us who have worked in IT long enough to remember checking out dongles to employees or assisting users with dialing in through phone lines, the shifts in technology over the last 30 years have been no less than extraordinary. Despite such innovation, legacy thinking (as opposed to legacy systems) often binds us to solutions and processes that simply don’t work as well as contemporary alternatives. This can be especially true for those of us who work in the SME space, where we’re often the only one managing a complex and critical infrastructure that supports many.

What is Cloud hosting and How Does it Work

January 18, 2021 No Comments

The world is progressing daily and the use of the interest has tremendously increased in this day and age. The importance of a web presence has been crucial for any online business to achieve success. The growth in technological advancements has allowed the internet speed to expand while server costs have dramatically fallen. If you have been exploring your hosting options, have a look on 28Msec. Check out their reviews on best web hosting comparisons in Australia and Canada.

What’s Next For API Integration: Survey

January 14, 2021 No Comments

Is GraphQL the path forward? How are “tried and true” enterprises pivoting to meet the connectivity demands of corporate customers? And how is anyone supposed to build repeatable integrations that won’t leave you stuck in a constant rut of endpoint maintenance?

Cloud Native Security: 4 Key Takeaways to Understand About This Exciting Approach

December 18, 2020 No Comments

Cloud native approach is currently the hottest discussion in the corporate town. This modern software development approach is providing organizations a competitive edge by boosting operational efficiency, robustness, and agility. It also empowers digital transformation by opening the doors of flexibility and scalability while reducing operating costs. It does this by letting providers deal with undifferentiated IT infrastructure allowing the organization to narrow down its efforts to developing apps that offer a competitive advantage, streamline different workforces, and meet its customers’ needs.

Developing IT Trends To Be Aware Of

December 9, 2020 No Comments

Times of great crisis tend to be accompanied by times of great innovation – and 2020 has been quite a crisis. We’ve all found out new things about ourselves and the world around us during the past year. Many of us now know that we don’t need to go into the office to get our jobs done. Some of us might never go back into the office again because of that revelation. We’ve also found out that we don’t need some of the things that we used to rely on, many meetings really could just be emails, and technology is even more essential than we already thought it was. In short, it’s been a good year for the world of information technology.

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview: Safeguarding Quality and Compliance Processes Across Supply Chains

December 8, 2020 No Comments

with Sébastien Breteau, QIMAIn this informative interview, Sebastien Breteau, founder and CEO of supply chain compliance solutions provider, QIMA, discusses the growing role of digital transformation in safeguarding quality and compliance processes across brands’ supply chains. Read More >>>

How to Easily Solve all Your Technical iPhone Problems

December 8, 2020 No Comments

It’s no secret that people love their phones. We get attached to these pocket-sized devices that hold onto the contact information for every person we’ve ever met, store all our photos and videos, and connect us to others. Our phones even give us directions when we’re lost. We’re not exaggerating when we say it would be hard to go back to living without them.

Hybridization & Innovation: Building Resilience for Software Suppliers

September 25, 2020 No Comments

Software licensing trends are always top of mind for Nicole Segerer, vice president of product management and marketing at Revenera. Reflecting on findings from newly-released annual research, she sheds light on how software suppliers use monetization and deployment models, how to support customers’ needs, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

500 Million Users of Android VPN Apps Risk Being Affected By Hidden Adwares

August 18, 2020 No Comments

There is no doubt that the Android operating system is more popular compared to its counterparts (iOS, Windows, etc). According to Statista, as of 2019, the Android global market share was at 87%. From the stats, it is evident that some developers choose to gain revenue fraudulently from the widely used operating system.

Performing SEO: Should I Hire an Agency or Do It Myself?

July 30, 2020 No Comments

It’s hard to overemphasize the importance of search engine optimization. SEO gets you near the top of search engine results pages and discovered by eager customers. While the fact of customers conducting online searches is hardly recent news, this kind of interaction is not going anywhere any time soon. Internet Live Stats reports that the volume of Google searches is growing by nearly 10% every year.

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