Securing your company’s data isn’t limited to protecting documents, spreadsheets, and other files that contain sensitive information. Your emails, instant messages, and contacts also need to be protected. A way to secure company emails is through email encryption which essentially encodes messages or information in a specific way so that . . .

Microsoft has long dominated the business email marketplace. Millions of businesses use Microsoft Outlook as their email platforms to send emails, schedule events, and maintain business contacts both in and out of the office. Microsoft Outlook is the front-end application for the Microsoft Exchange Server, a calendaring and mail server . . .

For many years, companies had limited options for backing up their data. A common solution was to create tape backups of servers. This often had to be done manually, where one person was in charge of running the backups at the end of each business day. As IT operations grew . . .

For businesses deciding to make the move to the cloud, but who don’t want their entire IT infrastructure moved off-site, picking and choosing select components to operate in the cloud is an easy way to utilize the power and efficiency of cloud computing without having to overhaul their in-house IT . . .

Cloud computing is not simply a fad that will soon begin to fade. It’s here to stay. More and more businesses are realizing the advantages of moving either partial or entire operations to the cloud which include cost savings, increased computational power, and inherent data back-ups. With the cloud though, . . .

Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) is a means to control access to IT systems. It provides greater security than a standard login and password combination. “Two factor” refers to the two components that are required to gain access. Generally, these are: Something you know (a login and password) and something you have . . .

Microsoft acquired Yammer, an enterprise social networking platform in 2012. Since then, the company has expanded Yammer to become a robust social platform fully integrated with Microsoft Office applications to help bring teams together. Microsoft offers plenty of ways for employees to keep in touch such as Outlook for email, . . .

The release of the Windows 10 operating system is proof that Microsoft has done its research on what consumers and the enterprise were demanding from their operating systems. Not only did Windows 10 bring back the beloved Windows Start Button (which users struggled to adopt in Windows 8), but the . . .

Microsoft is definitely making a push to move its clients to the cloud. Even the company’s most recent release of Office 2016, its desktop business productivity suite, includes multiple cloud integration options including real-time collaboration on documents. Companies are quickly realizing the benefits of having cloud-based applications as they eliminate . . .