I’ve had a few people ask me how I know so many people in the IT industry, especially people overseas. I’ve become known as someone ‘who knows people at Microsoft’.  While this is true, it doesn’t get me any special favors. But here’s the thing – I’ve had exactly the same tools and opportunities as …

For small businesses, Cloud solutions seem to deliver innovation, productivity and profitability with ease. You don’t have to sit around and wait for the “I.T. guy” to install something on a server, then install something else on your computer. It’s all enabled by just signing up to a service in your web browser and entering …

Warning: This is an opinion piece and quite honestly, a rant. You have been warned. Our business has been supporting the technology needs of SMBs for 12 years now, after we stepped out of the corporate world. The early years were comparatively easy – a business wanted I.T. support, we’d upgrade a server or two …

The catalyst for this post was a conversation with a bunch of great, smart people in IT about IoT. The general consensus was that the term meant different things to different people and had fallen victim to its own hype. Sound like any other computing term you know … (Cloud)? It was then followed by …

This landed in my Inbox last week. It’s a phishing scam, designed to capture your real login details and is definitely not from Microsoft. It’s good practice to log straight into the website or Cloud service in your web browser to check the validity of any warnings like these. Don’t click on links in your emails! From: Microsoft …

Ah the joys of a proof of concept. We’re playing with a vendor’s application that has some tricky networking requirements (multi-site VPN support through a third party aggregator) to see if the architecture would work with a server in Azure. The great part is we have a trial version of the software, so we can replicate …