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AI is Preventing Serious Health Issues: 5 Steps to Getting Started
Remaining competitive in healthcare is a constant challenge. If you’re a CTO or IT Manager at a healthcare organization then you already understand the speed of progress for technology in the industry. Providing quality patient care and balancing resources for lower treatment cost and facility overhead is changing. Every patient touch—from appointment scheduling to follow-up…Read More
These 3 Tactics Can Arm Your Employees Against Spear Phishing
According to the FBI’s 2017 Internet Crime Report, business email compromises caused more than $5 billion in losses since 2013, and reached $675 million in 2017. Many of these attacks are known as spear phishing—electronic communications scams targeting a specific individual, organization or business in hopes of gaining access to their connections or credentials. 80…Read More
7 Upcoming IoT Trends Every CIO Should Know About Now
Once a buzzword, the "internet of things" (IoT) industry is now booming and delivering real benefits and opportunities for organizations dedicated to improving efficiency, product and service delivery, and customer satisfaction. With studies predicting the continued growth of the industry and massive adoption and integration levels in the future, the CIOs and CTOs who are…Read More
3 Best Practices for Your Move to the Private Cloud
Remember when putting data in the cloud seemed dangerous? Everything has changed. Now public and private cloud providers are comfortably claiming that the cloud is more secure than traditional on-premise infrastructure. Why? Because of the prioritization of security in cloud designs compared to that of cost and functionality in traditional enterprise computing. With more organizations…Read More
Meet Loretta Yu, MicroAge’s Q2 Associate of the Quarter
Every quarter, MicroAge recognizes an associate for their commitment to supporting our clients and team members and for living our values every day. Meet Loretta Yu, our Associate of the Quarter for Q2 and MicroAge's Marketing Specialist. Loretta has been an unstoppable creative force at MicroAge for five years. She's known for being able to…Read More
Meet Scott Jeffery, MicroAge’s Q1 Associate of the Quarter
Every quarter, MicroAge recognizes an associate for their commitment to supporting our clients and team members and for living our values every day. Meet Scott Jeffery, our Associate of the Quarter for Q1. Scott has been a constant team player, empowering and educating associates across the company for almost seven years. He has an impressive…Read More
7 Things to Know About 5G
In recent years, tech advancements have made fifth-generation cellular networks (i.e., 5G) possible. 5G will be much faster than existing 4G connections and is expected to facilitate the seamless operation of VR tech, self-driving cars, drones, industrial robots and more. Basically, 5G is the newest generation of mobile broadband that will augment and eventually replace current 4G…Read More
Improving IoT Security: 4 Ways to Slam the Door on Hackers
As I was reading a recent Sophos blog on improving IoT security, I had a flashback to my childhood. Growing up, my parents got after me for leaving doors open (“In or out!”, “You’re letting all the warm/cool air out!” and “You’re letting bugs in!” were popular in my house). Your company leaders probably don’t…Read More
Things You Should Know About Office 365
Launched in 2011, Office 365 is a line of subscription services offered as part of the Microsoft Office product line. Users access Office 365 offerings through plans that allow a subscription-based use of Microsoft's Office software suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Access and Publisher), as well as the following cloud-based SaaS products: Skype for…Read More
Traditional SAN Technology vs. VMware vSAN
Centralized storage enables the consolidation of storage resources both at the block and file level. It allows servers to access the same pool of storage space, making for efficient use of storage capacity. Since the data is centralized, management and backup operations are much easier. Some of the benefits of centralized storage include high performance,…Read More