Companies that handle credit and debit card data now have new guidelines for securing that data in the cloud. The PCI Security Standards Council, the body that administers the Payment Card Data Security Standards (PCI DSS), has issued new compliance requirements for companies that use cloud service providers for handling or processing payment card data. [...]
Each Thursday we like to bring you a weekly dose of humor! Keeping track of monthly airtime minutes and data usage on our cell phone contracts has become a sport in and of itself. This week Randy Glasbergen offers us a chuckle on this very topic! We bet this dearly departed gentleman wishes he [...]
Just like teaching a young child that there is no ‘last number,’ we are reaching new highs of data storage size with each passing year. Terabytes, Petabytes, Zettabytes, oh my! But since we can’t stop the data from being produced … we need to find a way to store it all. Enter cloud storage – [...]
Keeping your business at top performance while you are away from your physical desk is no longer an issue. Cloud-based apps for the iPad offer on demand performance and capabilities. Stay organized and productive no matter where you are working, using these five cloud-based business apps. Quickoffice Pro HD Word Processor This is a premium [...]
Monitoring-as-a-Service (MaaS) has caught on with a number of enterprises as the popularity of cloud applications increases. As a flood of new applications continues to make its way through the production pipeline, IT professionals find themselves in need of a flexible set of IT monitoring tools that are easy to deploy and capable of running [...]
Customer Relationships Management (CRM), once handled by mail and telephone, has made dramatic changes with the ongoing advancement of technologies in the information age. The editors of CRM Magazine describe CRM as a “company-wide business strategy designed to reduce costs and increase profitability by solidifying customer satisfaction, loyalty, and advocacy.” Companies achieve this by bringing information together [...]
Each Thursday we like to bring you a weekly dose of humor! This week, we are checking in with the modern classroom. Since students primarily communicate via text message these days (or so it seems), the smart teacher knows to play the homework game their way. Gone are the days when ‘the dog ate my [...]