Woodrow Quinones

How far has cloud computing come and where is it heading?

When we look back to the time cloud computing was first introduced, computer scientists and software engineers and developers understood the concept and welcomed it with open arms. However, in the business world, arms were crossed, eyebrows raised, and disbelief was everywhere. Many thought it was a here today, gone tomorrow, fad.

In fact, it was so difficult to get past the idea that our files, data, and information would no longer si...

A recent report at the Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 website has brought attention to a new kind of malware attack that evades detection of cloud security products. The new code used can uninstall five different cloud security protections and monitoring products.

In Unit 42’s examination, these attacks did not compromise the security products initially: instead; the attacks gained full administrative control over the hosts first. Then exploited full executive power to uninstall the security prod...

5 Questions A New Call Center Might Ask When Looking For A-Z VoIP Termination Routes. If you have ever worked in a call center, you know firsthand how busy the center can become. Phones are ringing, and call takers with their headsets on greeting the caller, and solving their problem. As soon as the call taker hangs up, they must be ready to accept the next call in the queue. If you owned that call center, every second adds up when it comes to billable minutes. If you, the owner of the call ce...

When is it Time to Upgrade Your Datto Appliance? As a general rule, there are several reasons the time has arrived to discuss Datto appliance upgrading options with a Technical Support Engineer: When you are experiencing failed local backups, Continually sacrificing local backup retention to keep your system protected, When you have limited space to virtualize the volume of your most significant agent, When your device is utilizing 75%-85% or possibly more of its local storage from...

There were fears of job losses and machines taking over, but what’s happening in the financial services industry is anything but that. The finance sector is claiming greater benefits with the assistance of Artificial Intelligence. Due to the unscripted power of AI, the creation of the New-Collar worker has emerged. The potential of AI evolving the next avatar of the financial services industry is more than evident.

What 4 Areas Has AI Started Transforming the Financial Sector?

Regardless of w...

Was it that Dark Web Chatroom your compromised data was discovered in a hidden Internet Relay Chat or (IRC)? Maybe your exposed credentials showed up posted on a social media platform. Or was the file leak from your freeware peer-to-peer file-sharing program that grabbed your ID and passwords? If you believe that swapping letters around to mix-up your password protects, you may find you played right into the hacker’s hand.

Wendall Reems, the owner of an online catalog store, has experienced his fair share of bad press from conservative talk show hosts, handfuls of bureaucrats, church groups and politically correct phone companies. Actions taken against him are too numerous to count. Having phone lines cut. Graffiti sprayed on his walls. Building break-ins. Nasty letters mailed to him, and multiple court appearances on made-up code violations. Regardless of the perils, his business has faced, he has...

What were the top five 2019 Big Data Predictions? As we wait for Gartner’s year-end predictions for the coming year, let’s look back on the top five 2019 Big Data predictions. What did the industry giants have to say? What were their forecasts, and did they surpass all the hype? In 2018 there were numerous Big Data predictions from industry leaders. Now that we are in Q4 of 2019, did those and other predictions live up to the hype or go beyond industry expectations?

From the invention of the assembly line to cloud computing for the Discrete, Repetitive, and Process Manufacturing industries, updating to the latest technology is never in question. What does get closer scrutiny, is deciding to invest in Microsoft technologies. That’s what Rolls Royce did, and now they use Microsoft technology platforms, to fundamentally transform, how it uses data to serve their customers better. Every CEO or business owner knows reducing overhead, and expenses on server maintenance, technology management, and upgrading code benefits the company both short-term and...

Wireless routers have become a staple in today’s society. They are in businesses, home offices and anywhere else you find wireless internet. With a wide variety of devices on the market, choosing the best VoIP router can feel daunting. When it comes to VoIP (Voice over IP), you will need a router that is fast and compatible with your hardware. As you review our VoIP router buying guide, ask yourself what you’re really looking for: Is it faster internet speed or network protection? Maybe you’r...

Power outages will disrupt a business’ operation in a heartbeat. One minute everyone is working, taking phone calls, talking to customers, them wham! Out go the lights, all the computers go down, the internet is offline, and you can’t get a dial tone. The power just went out, and no one knows for how long! The sad part, it’s a true story. When the power came back on, one of the 14-year old Toshiba CTX28 phone stations was dead.

Are You Ready For Another Two-On-One Review and Rating Match-Up?

In this corner, we have Cisco Systems, an American multinational technology conglomerate, headquartered in San Jose, California and creator of two heavyweight power products; FirePOWER and Virtual Next-Generation IPS (NGIPSv) for VMware.

In the far corner, their opponent, from Cambridge, the United Kingdom, global enterprise-grade Artificial Intelligence giant for cyber defense and modeled on the human immune system with over 70...

Microsoft Outlook makes it easy. If you are in an email, then click on the Message tab and Reply With Meeting. Then go ahead and update the invitation like you would any other meeting. Don’t forget about adding the attendees, time, location, then Send. It’s as simple as that. But wait! There’s more to meeting requests then reply and send.
What we’ve done is scoured our archives and brought you 13 quick tips most Outlook users want to know. Our list is not exhaustive. But what we’ve put togeth...