Robert Kellerman 
The World Health Organization has officially categorized the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. This means the novel Coronavirus is accelerating in several countries simultaneously. In response, the United States announced travel bans on 28 European countries, and many other countries have closed schools and universities and canceled or postponed large gatherings of people. While governments globally … Read more
Bäckerhaus Veit, an award-winning artisan bakery founded in 1987 by Sabine Veit, hails from a long line of Master Bakers dedicated to producing high quality, hand-shaped bread according to time-honored traditions. Since then, Backerhaus Veit has grown bringing a passion for quality to bread lovers across North America. Their technical environment comprises 8 servers and … Read more
Network recovery used to be straight forward. However, with the advent of complex arrangements such as hybrid cloud computing, security, virtual servers, and the massive pressure cloud migration and mobility put on networks, recovering from a network crash has become a complicated endeavor. It is also worth noting that networks fail for more reasons than … Read more
After more than 30 years in business, Wood & Associates have integrated the best of traditional, new, and emerging media to give clients’ marketing the best of ALL worlds, by using tried and true direct mail techniques that work. Adding a web component allows for accurate real-time data capture and mobile elements that improve access … Read more
“A multi-million dollar Ontario construction firm that has worked on major federal and provincial projects including facilities for national defence and police stations has been hit by a ransomware attack.” Serious questions arose when a Canadian construction firm working on both military and federal contracts worth millions of dollars was hit by a ransomware attack. … Read more
Before discussing IT-as-a-service you first have to understand enterprise IT. In a nutshell, enterprise IT is the secure consumption of services from two or more sources such as private cloud, public cloud and traditional IT. Its goal is to enable the integration of applications, data and services, to compose, orchestrate and manage workloads and to … Read more
Being cut off from crucial data for a lengthy period of time is every business’s worst nightmare. Something as malicious as ransomware, uncontrollable like severe weather, or innocent such as human error (or ignorant) can trigger a crisis like this. Notwithstanding the reason, the results will still be devastating. Here’s what you need to know: … Read more
The cloud is a hot topic for SMEs/SMBs yet it remains a very broad concept that covers a lot of online territory. When considering switching your business to the cloud it becomes very important to understand the difference between the advantages and disadvantages of the different cloud services. There are usually three models of cloud … Read more
Phishing scams are geared towards infiltrating your system in order to gain access to usernames, passwords and sensitive information such as credit card details. These scams are, unfortunately, also very common and often appear real. There are, however, steps that you can take to protect your business against phishing attacks: 1. Prevent phishing emails from … Read more
Even though cloud computing has only been available publicly for about a decade, the rate at which businesses are moving to the cloud is increasing rapidly. When the decision is taken to move to the cloud, specifically the hybrid cloud model, it is important to compile a cloud strategy first. This should include both infrastructure … Read more
