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Remote Monitoring - The Managed Service You Need

Did you know that remote monitoring can help businesses reduce their downtime by up to 90%? In today's fast-paced digital landscape, where technology drives productivity and efficiency, uninterrupted operations are crucial. Remote monitoring is a powerful tool that allows businesses to keep a close eye on their IT infrastructure, ensuring optimal performance and minimizing disruptions.

Hybrid Working Increasing Motivation and Productivity

In recent years, remote working has become increasingly popular, with more and more businesses adopting flexible working arrangements. This trend has been driven by several factors including technological advances and changing attitudes towards work-life balance. Nevertheless, the answer is yes, according to recent studies. in fact, research has shown that remote working can boost productivity by up to 40% and increase employee job satisfaction and morale.

What is Remote Cloud Monitoring

According to a recent survey, 94% of enterprises use cloud services. As more and more companies turn to the cloud for their IT needs, cloud monitoring has become essential for ensuring the smooth and secure operation of their cloud-based infrastructure and applications.

Here's How to Stay Cyber-Safe Over Christmas

We can all agree that cyber-criminals are terrible people and the fact that there is a 30% increase in the average number of ransomware attacks in December compared to other months only reinforce this. Whilst everyone else sees Christmas as a time to wind down and spend some time with family, cyber-criminals see Christmas as the perfect opportunity to launch a cyber-attack, and worryingly it is…

The Remote Working Landscape in 2023

Studies have found that job listings offering remote work options have tripled since last year. Pre-pandemic, only 12.4% of the workforce was working remotely, fast forward to today, and a staggering 84% of employees are looking to work remotely entering 2023. Remote work culture had gone from nearly non-existent in 2019 to the preferred way to work in 2022. But why and how has this been possible, and has it negatively or positively affected businesses?

Why Teams is Now The Go-To Collaboration Platform

By the end of 2019, Microsoft Teams had amassed an impressive 20 million active monthly users, and cloud communication programmes were steadily becoming more common within businesses day-to-day. Fast forward to today and Teams now has an astounding 270 million active users, that’s almost 14 times more users in less than 3 years. A key element of Teams' recent success will undoubtedly be owed to the recent pandemic that caused countless businesses to expand their online workforce, which in turn required them to adopt a well-rounded collaboration platform such as Microsoft Teams.

Stories From the Pandemic... What Have we Learned?

As businesses across the country closed their doors in March 2020, it quickly became clear no Government, business, or individual was truly prepared for the disruption Covid would cause. Businesses and individuals found themselves facing a frightening and confusing time, having to pivot and adjust to the continually changing landscape Covid brought. Whilst Covid was the killer of many businesses, for some, this economic pause allowed for time to reflect on business goals, and many found ways to take advantage of these unique needs brought on by the pandemic.

The Worst Passwords of 2021... How Can You Stay Secure?

Another year, another annual password review. Those that follow our blog know, this is something we enjoy (and cringe) at doing each year. Every year we speak in detail about how unreliable passwords truly are, throughout we highlight the worst passwords, whilst reinforcing the fact that passwords remain an increasingly significant point of weakness for personal and business security. With a significant increase in remote workers and the topic of cyber security becoming more prevalent, has 2021 been the year everyone turned their poor password habit’s around? Unfortunately not, Nord VPN has put together the 200 most used passwords and it seems password hygiene is only getting worse.

How to Collaborate Effectively with a Remote Workforce

A Study conducted by Owl Labs has found 84% of UK businesses are planning on having a hybrid/remote workforce, this confirms the remote wave brought on by the pandemic is here to stay and therefore the need to collaborate effectively remotely will be imperative to your business’ success.

Security Considerations for 2022

As we enter 2022 a lot of businesses will be starting the year with a much greater online presence with many companies having made big investments in technology throughout 2020 and 2021. Whilst we may be inching closer towards the end of the pandemic, the changes it brought are here to stay, with remote work becoming common place the need for an online workplace and cloud storage has become a necessity, with many companies heavily investing into their IT infrastructure