Laptops are ubiquitous in today’s IT environments. How many of your employees are using laptops in the office, on the road, working from home, or all of the above? While massively convenient, and a boon to worker productivity, laptops also represent a major liability. They are easy for employees to lose – and easy for a thief to steal.

At some point in the evolution of IT managed services, backup became synonymous with storage in many people’s minds—just a place to stash away a digital copy of data should something go wrong. Backup was regarded as little more than a virtual storage locker where companies could unload files.

Conferencing and collaboration expenses are one of an enterprise’s most volatile and difficult to predict, making accurate budgeting and forecasting practically impossible. Based on research conducted by AOTMP, optimizing telecom costs is the top telecom management activity for organizations this year, with a focus on conferencing expenses.

With the release of Ted 2 last week, visions of Flash Gordon are again floating through our heads, but Flash Gordon isn’t the only heroic version of flash to hit the big-time this year. The commercial market for flash, of the SSD (solid state drive) variety, just grew 31 percent in units in Q1 2015 versus the prior year period. So, what’s the big deal? Why are all the luminaries in the IT industry talking about it?

Web filtering used to be rather easy – IT departments could block inappropriate categories of websites like adult, gambling, and perhaps social media, and the job was done.