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Are Your Employees Wasting Time Looking for Files? Learn How to Keep Them Organised
One of the activities that impact everyone that uses a computer or cloud storage is searching for files. We look for documents needed to do our work multiple times per day, and if those files are hard to find, it drags down productivity. A few extra minutes here and...
3 Helpful Tips for Deploying Multi-Factor Authentication Without a Lot of Employee Resistance
More than 70% of surveyed Singapore professionals say that their company is using more cloud services these days. During the pandemic-caused lockdown, Alibaba Cloud saw an increase of over 50% in demand for cloud computing technologies from companies of all...
What Steps Should We Take to Shut Down Unauthorised App Use?
There’s been an acceleration of SaaS (Software as a Service) use due to the pandemic. Companies that wanted to stay in operation had no choice but to move processes to a cloud environment to enable their employees to work from home. Even once the pandemic has passed,...
Why Has Ransomware Become So Bad & How Can We Protect Our Small Business?
Many of the large attacks you hear about in the news these days have to do with ransomware. For example, in May, the largest global producer of beef and pork, JBS, had to shut down facilities in the U.S, Australia, and Canada for several days due to a ransomware...
Virtual PCs Are About to Get Big! Learn What Windows 365 is All About
You may have heard about virtual PCs in the past, but it’s not really something that has caught on in the business world in a big way. That’s about to change because Microsoft just introduced its new cloud PC service called Windows 365. Microsoft is all about making...
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4 Reasons to be Worried About Cloud Jacking & What You Can Do to Prevent It
Over the past five years, much of the data that companies work with daily has been moved to the cloud. The cloud allows the flexibility of anywhere access to business apps and data. It has also been a necessity for keeping most businesses operating during the pandemic...
What Can You & Your Employees Expect from Windows 11 (Should You Upgrade?)
It’s been over five years since Windows 10 was released, and most people agree the operating system was a big step forward in productivity and ease of use. With the lifecycle of about ten years passing the halfway point, Microsoft has just announced the next...
Firmware Attacks Have Increased Dramatically – How to Protect Your Small Business Technology From a Breach
One type of cyberattack that’s caught many businesses off guard targets device firmware. Firmware attacks are often left undiscovered because there’s historically been a lack of transparency between the operating system (OS) and the software that tells hardware how to...
5 Ways That Using a Two-Monitor Setup Can Benefit Your Small Business
Did you know that one simple change in workflow could mean over 40% higher employee productivity? Several studies show that adding a second monitor makes a big difference when it comes to multiple tasks, such as finding information, referencing two+ documents at a...
4 Helpful Ways You Can Use Encryption to Prevent a Data Breach
Along with a disruption to the way we live and work, COVID-19 also brought a larger threat of cyberattack. 93% of businesses in Singapore reported an increase in cyberattacks as a result of the global pandemic. A data breach or malware infection can cost a small...
How Microsoft Is Reimaging Employee Engagement with MS Viva
The employee experience has changed a lot over the last year. Companies in Singapore and around the world had to send employees home to work in droves during the pandemic, and many are now considering keeping that arrangement permanently. This year, it’s expected...
What You Need to Know About the Microsoft Exchange Server Hack (It is time to move away from On-Premise email)
A major eruption hit the business technology world a few weeks ago when it was found that Microsoft Exchange Server had some major vulnerabilities being exploited around the world. This breach was so large and causing so many organizations of all sizes to be...
Biggest Product News from Microsoft Ignite 2021
Staying ahead of your competitors often has to do with having optimized business technology. Companies that are making better use of digital solutions are often more productive and see higher revenue per employee. In a study by Microsoft on SMEs in Singapore,...
Microsoft Productivity Score Overview: Supercharge Remote Teams
Microsoft 365 has been one of the cloud platforms that companies in Singapore and around the world have flocked to during the pandemic to keep remote teams connected. The applications, collaborative features as well as video and team messaging capabilities make it...
Pandemic Lessons Learned About Our Use of Technology
The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting Circuit Breaker here in Singapore have completely changed the way people live and work for roughly a year now. A majority of companies had to send employees home to work remotely and adjust to new ways to serve clients, such as...
Why Every Small Business Needs Effective Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
Much of a company’s value and livelihood is held within its data. This includes data on customers, customer projects, product and service collateral, accounting entries, and much more. We’ve become used to searching in a cloud storage folder based on a keyword instead...
Do We Still Need Managed IT If We Use the Cloud?
The technology environment of today is in the cloud. The cloud has gone from being a new phenomenon to the standard way that businesses need to set up operations to be resilient and flexible. For any latecomers that were not yet using cloud processes at the beginning...
Two Big Apps Have or Will Be Losing Support Soon (Flash & IE). Here’s What You Need to Know
Technology marches on and evolves at a rapid pace. And part of that evolution is leaving behind outdated technologies, even those that may have been popular in their prime. Two names that used to be big in the online world are being phased out as we enter a new year....
The 6 Most Important Areas to Focus Your 2021 Cybersecurity Budget
According to a report by Channel News Asia, during the first part of 2020 COVID-19 related cyberattacks increased over 100x. Phishing, ransomware, data breaches, and other cyber threats became worse last year, spurred on by the disruption of the pandemic. In 2021,...
Are You Using These Important Microsoft 365 Security Settings
A survey of companies across 26 countries, including Singapore, found that 70% of businesses have suffered a public cloud breach within the last 12 months. Cloud security has become a major issue following the migration of a majority of organizations to cloud...
4 Reasons Your Freelance or Virtually Run Business Needs Managed IT Support
Two trends in the global workforce that have been accelerated by the pandemic are virtually run businesses and freelance workers. Both groups forgo the traditional office environment to reduce costs and rely heavily on cloud services to run their businesses from...
How Protected is Your Cloud Data? 7 Reasons You Need to Consider Datto SaaS Protection
When it comes to backup and recovery, most Singapore businesses understand the importance of making a backup copy of all the files that reside on their computers and servers. But with much of a company’s data is now located in cloud productivity platforms like G...
Can Our Small Business Save Money by Outsourcing IT Management?
When you’re a small business owner, you’re often balancing your budget with your needs. You may try to do as much yourself as possible because you feel it’s saving your business money. But there are some aspects of your business that can actually cost you more if you...
Managed IT Asia – Channel Asia Innovation Awards 2020 Finalist
We are delighted to learn that we have made it, to be part of the 45 finalists, of the Channel Asia Innovation Awards 2020. It is humbling to know that we have been selected to be a finalist from a record-breaking 332 nominations. In keeping with our focus on managing...
How to Create an Effective Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BCDR) Plan
If 2020 has taught business owners anything, it’s that things can happen out of the blue that put their livelihood in danger. No one expected a global pandemic at the beginning of the year that would transform much of the way the world lives and works. The companies...
Why Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) is Critical for Your Small Business
The network of today looks completely different from the one of 15 years ago. In the past, most network endpoints were either computers or servers and they were all contained in a single location. In 2020, a typical Singapore business network includes multiple mobile...
What’s the Best Replacement Cycle for Business Computers?
Do you know how much it’s costing you to keep business computers in operation longer than you should? It’s not always apparent from the outside of a computer when it should be replaced, and performance issues tend to sneak up little by little over time. Small...
How to Transition from a Physical to a Completely Virtual Business
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses in Singapore went through a lot of disruption, along with the rest of the world. They had to quickly transition to a remote working environment during Circuit Breaker, leaving offices empty. While this has typically...
The Importance of Using a Business VPN in a Remote-Working World
While remote working was already a growing trend prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the crisis accelerated the process. It has now forever changed the way that many businesses operate in Singapore and around the world. A survey of CFOs revealed that 74% of them intend to...