Walk away from your computer?
Windows Key + L — You will quickly secure your PC, also beneficial when someone unexpectedly walks into your office and you don’t want them to see your screen.

Along with the digital revolution, web users changed both their behaviour and their buying habits.

Do you still have Windows 7 on your computer? Windows 7 will reach the “End of Life” stage January 14, 2020.

Recent news articles about Cyber Attacks on municipalities in Canada and the U.S. reveal a depressing reality about the information systems and practices of many municipal governments.

In IT, as in many fields, it is important for companies and organizations to consult an expert before undertaking a project or a purchase of technology equipment. It is certainly very easy to do an online search to find the equipment and software that will seem to meet all your needs, but it is just as easy to get the wrong products and then end up with a multitude of problems and additional costs.

Friday, June 7, 2019 5:05am, my life changes forever. I receive a call from one of my associates. He informs me that there is a fire in the shopping center where our offices are located. Flames of more than a meter emerge from the door of our warehouse and a dense black smoke escapes from the roof covering more than half of the mall.

A single person responsible for IT, even when specifically trained for the job, is not the same as a full IT department or even an outsourced Managed Services Provider, which can draw on a large pool of diverse technical staff. The small in-house IT group (or person) cannot provide the range of support needed to maintain a firm’s critical infrastructure — critical to daily business activities and critical to long-term revenue streams.

Success comes with objectives! In order to stay on top, one must meet, exceed, re-evaluate and delete those objectives. We’ve seen Microsoft set some spectacular objectives for the technology space this past year with significant ramifications for the business world. They have set the end of Windows 7 support for January 2020 and increased focus on transitioning to O365 as a subscription model replacement for traditional Office solutions. That move is fundamentally changing the way organizations access mission critical productivity solutions. Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, moved to an O365 subscription for the entire campus and this is just one large organization making the switch among many. Objectives will continue to change and it’s crucial to find partnerships that will help with those changes.