If you need to have an emergency Skype meeting with your team, you can stop by a Starbucks, hang out on a bus, or find a corner café. You can even tether your laptop to your smartphone to get instant Internet access in an emergency. Up until recently, however, if you happened to be flying, the meeting would just have to wait.

We go over this a lot. But because September is National Preparedness Month, we think it’s important to go over it again.

You simply never know when a disaster is going to strike your business. A single disaster or day of downtime can completely cripple you.

Four years after Windows 7 was launched and released to the public, the operating system has finally sustained a lead over Window XP and the Mac OS. This particular version of Windows currently holds 42.76% of the market, compared to Windows XP’s 42.5%.

Windows 7’s share of the market has risen an average of 1% every month since its release.

Every business now needs a workplace chat platform to foster internal communication, and Teams is Microsoft’s answer to this demand. To improve convenience and user experience, Microsoft has just announced new features that will be added to Microsoft Teams.

I have been asked if it is possible to send texts through email.  It is actually pretty easy and convenient to text from your mail client.  This can be done via Outlook, Outlook Express, GMail, or virtually any mail client.

What is the advantage of being able to do this?  There are potentially several advantages.

Cloud technology has seen continuous adoption in 2017. In fact, business owners are starting to embrace hybrid cloud so much that 2020 is expected to be the year when combined private and public cloud spending will exceed traditional data centers. But until then, here are five hybrid cloud predictions for 2018.

Clearer strategies

Many infrastructure as a service (IaaS) public cloud vendors have spent 2017 refining their hybrid cloud strategy.

The Flame virus was a huge virus that infected thousands of computers in Israel and the surrounding area. It was designed to steal data and spy on the computers it infected. As of yesterday, the US and Israel admit to having developed the virus and sending it into Iran.

Imagine what could happen if all your business data gets lost through unforeseen circumstances like a computer crashing, theft, or disasters such as fire, floods, and the like. Lost data can greatly cripple your business operation. Thus, offsite backup is necessary if you’d like to protect your business.

Connecting to the internet with your smartphone and tablet may become easier in upcoming years thanks to the GSM Association and the Wireless Broadband Alliance.

The two companies, which represent the majority of global mobile carriers, have partnered up in recent days.