Entries by Kirill Bensonoff

Salesforce’s Video Help Feature Signals Future for Cloud-Based IT Support

Salesforce has been a leader in cloud software deployment, with the popular software often serving as a business’s first foray into cloud functionality. Recognizing this, the software provider has often served as a leader in the field, integrating other apps to offer big-business features to businesses of all sizes. A recent announcement from the company has many […]

Are Password Managers Safe for Your Business?

As if it weren’t bad enough to keep up with passwords when we were limited to PCs, professionals today now must handle multiple passwords on multiple devices. Remembering passwords and entering them on tiny smartphone and tablet keyboards is a constant challenge for consumers today, who are tasked with finding a way to keep up […]

Need Video Surveillance? Try the Cloud

Businesses are increasingly seeing new ways to leverage the cloud to power business operations. From hosting webinars to making phone calls, IT support has grown significantly from its original job of simply setting up and maintaining servers and PCs. Video surveillance is one of those new areas, giving businesses the ability to monitor office space 24 […]

Speed-Dialer Apps That Can Save You Time

As professionals increasingly switch to smartphones instead of landlines, there are a few conveniences that are being lost. One major loss is the speed dialing functionality of a traditional business phone, which allowed workers to dial someone with the push of a button. Instead, employees must now find the person in a list of contacts […]

How Graphics as a Service will Help Design and Manufacturing

As much of the workforce trades in desktop PCs for more portable devices, one group of people remains chained to a desk. Professionals tasked with manipulating graphics-heavy content are still required to purchase high-end PCs with specialized graphics cards to handle the workload. In a world where cloud hosting is rapidly becoming the norm, many businesses are crafting plans […]

How Cloud Analytics Can Help Your Small Business

Despite the buzz surrounding the future of data analytics, small businesses aren’t sure how they can gain access to detailed information about every aspect of operations. With the right analytics in place, businesses are finding that they can access statistics about network performance that can help them improve server productivity. However, many smaller businesses assume they […]

Apple CEO Calls for a More Tablet-Centric Corporate World

Apple CEO Tim Cook does the vast majority of his daily work activities on his iPad. And he thinks other business professionals should do the same. In an interview published in the Wall Street Journal last week, Cook explained a recent partnership with IBM to develop corporate apps for Apple devices. Perhaps noting the growing number […]

Data Retention and Liability: What You Need to Know

The average business creates, processes, and deletes volumes of data each day, from emails to spreadsheets to reports. This data is increasingly being moved to cloud hosting services, where it is preserved until the business user removes it. Even then, it may still be retrievable, depending on the host’s backup procedures. The Cloud in the Courtroom When it comes to court-ordered “discovery” processes, the […]

Could Co-Sourcing Be the Right Choice for Your Business IT Needs?

Even in an era of professional IT services, businesses aren’t yet willing to get rid of on-site IT staff. In fact, those support and development team members are usually crucial to business operations. They have years of experience and knowledge that can’t be replicated by a third-party provider. But as businesses see the value in outsourcing services […]