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5 Signs Your IT Team Needs Live Chat

Being in charge of a business that’s in the information technology domain is highly challenging. Just keeping up with the latest updates in the field can be troublesome because cutting edge technology is continuously growing – which is something that I’m sure you’re familiar with. That being said, a company owner needs to strive towards […]

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10 Tips for Achieving IT Consulting Success

An IT consultant plays a big role in advising his clients. He guides them on now best to utilize information technology to meet their business objectives and to solve their business related problems. IT work is no walk in the park. Below are tips by alexjenkins.tech that you can follow in order to achieve IT […]

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Tips to Choose Computer and Managed IT Services

A Computer and Managed IT services provider takes up the ongoing responsibility for monitoring and managing a problem or a solution for the business IT systems for 24 hours. You first need to find out whether your business needs these services before you plan to opt for one. You have most business owners looking out […]

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Why Do Most American Companies Outsource Their IT Services?

As your company grows, so does its responsibilities and capabilities. However, your time to manage these responsibilities shrinks in a comparable fashion to the speed of your company’s growth, and you are left with few options. You can scramble to manage everything in-house, but the quality of your work and your level of customer service […]

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Importance of Technical Writing in Information Technology

Don’t think technical writing is critical to your IT (Information Technology) career? Think again. Effective written communication makes all sorts of things easier on everyone involved and much more efficient. Here are some things excellent technical writing skills can do for you. Clearer code comments, file headers, and function headers. If you come back to […]

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Resources I used to ace my undergraduate college degree in Computer Science and Engineering

I know for certain, that if you are reading this and you are in college studying for your Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science and Engineering (or related fields like Information Technology), you’ve probably realised by now that college life can be tedious. Not only do you need to deal with theoretical studies and labs, […]

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Get to Know Microsoft’s Infrastructure Optimization Model

In order to help companies to establish business continuity, Microsoft used its experience with customers along with the industry best practices to develop a model that provides a framework to identify the people, the processes and the technology of an IT infrastructure, the Infrastructure Optimization Model (IOM). This model also describes four levels of maturity […]

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Be an IT Detective: Recognize a Data Breach in Your Business

When a business suffers a data breach, it can result in more than financial losses. It can mean lawsuits, penalties, and a loss of reputation, as well. Not only do businesses tend to be careless when it comes to securing themselves against data breaches, though, they tend to be unaware of data breaches even once […]

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BYOD and Consumerization of IT – What to Expect from IT Right Now and in the Near Future

It’s clear that the vast sector of IT is undergoing some serious changes. A major factor accounting for the industry’s profound transformation is the consumerization of IT solutions, motivated mostly by the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend. Consumerization plays a major role in reshaping the ways in which enterprises purchase, manage and secure IT […]

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8 ways to automate your IT service desk

On a Monday morning, Adam, a help desk technician greets everyone at office refreshingly and opens his laptop. Once he logs into his service desk software, he is bombarded with un-categorized incidents with neither priority set nor technician assigned. Before even glancing at the incidents properly, he is in a great desperation to categorize incidents, […]

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Tips in Choosing Your Nearshore Vendor

The number of companies that decide outsourcing their IT projects to nearshore vendors is quickly surging. It is not surprisingly, as they are tempted by a wide range of benefits offered by the  IT outsourcing. The most common benefits are high-quality services, low-cost labour and the ability to access expertise and talent that are sometimes […]

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Why Is IT Training Important No Matter Your Field

When personal computers first entered the workplace, this caused a major shift in how businesses operated. This one advancement ended the need for businesses to spend boatloads of money on manual typewriters and cases of whiteout. As software became more advanced, the need to store paper-based files went by the wayside as well. In order […]

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IT Acronyms are the worst and we don’t know how to use them

A survey conducted by Six Degrees Group has found that people perceive IT professionals as using more jargon than bankers, lawyers and politicians combined. Many of the people surveyed do not understand the jargon: 22% believed Platform as a Service (PaaS) was a new philosophy in railway management, and 16% thought Infrastructure as a Service […]

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Why IT Pros Should Dial Back the Jargon

Techies love jargon. The world of computers, hardware, gaming, and programming, after all, are complex, and truly require a whole vocabulary to describe and navigate. And nothing says “I know what I am talking about” quite like tapping into that specialized vocabulary, completely foreign to the less tech-savvy. Dropping jargon in the tech world, gaming […]