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.

Leading providers in unified communications are educating their customers on the recent expansion of bandwidth monitoring and management solutions. Essentially, bandwidth monitoring is the practice and policy of tracking the utilization of company bandwidth between all employees, software applications and desktops. The growth of bandwidth management solutions in recent years is due primarily to growth of company provided and personal devices (smart phones, tablets, etc.) connected to an organization’s network.

A misfortune like the one just suffered by Desjardins is not something any company would want or should have to endure. Unfortunately, the security gaps created by the adoption of new technologies, such as clouds or remote access servers, pose a greater risk than people realize, given the sensitive data that is stored there. The attacks are constantly firing and from all sides. Today, in terms of computer prevention, three important words to remember are: safety, safety and safety!

Most company’s largest environmental impacts stem from the partners they purchase from. For example, did you know that a company’s supply chain can produce up to four times more carbon emissions than its direct operations?