Technology Insights Blog

The best business meetings happen face-to-face. You have the opportunity to read body language, hear voices and truly grasp the meaning and “personality” of the meeting. But due to travel costs and time commitments, in-person meetings aren't always feasible. That's where video co…

As mobile computing devices increasingly permeate society, schools and education systems have a unique opportunity to help their students capitalize on the benefit of these devices. Today, children as young as two are familiar with how to operate the touchscreen interface on smar…

The first tape was developed in 1951. The DDS3 and the SDLT are more recent tape backup technologies on the market, but even these tapes have been around for a little more than 10 years. The current backup tapes are LTO-6 which were released in 2012 and are able to hold 2.5TB of …

I recently presented Cisco Meraki’s cloud managed networking capabilities to business and IT professionals at Marco’s Mankato Business Technology Seminar. The discussion covered the features and details of Cisco’s new cloud networking platform. If you were unable to attend the se…

For most of the time that we have had computers, the general technology landscape has been dominated by servers located inside the office. Those servers powered the services we needed to make email communications hum and provided employees access to the software and programs nece…

Businesses today face a threat that wasn’t even on the radar 20 years ago. The massive expansion of Internet connectivity and access, as well as its vital role in many work settings, has given rise to a number of security concerns and risks.

When it comes to network security, you need a plan. As a technology services provider, we’ve been focusing less on specific configurations, and more on policies, procedures and standards. While we continue to implement technical configurations to support these documents, we now b…

For more than two decades now, Microsoft has dominated the landscape when it comes to business software. Windows OS, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint; you name it, Microsoft makes it. Lync is another valuable Microsoft software many businesses are implementing as a communicat…

All methods of communication within businesses should be secure, including voice communication. The increased adoption of technology and communication channels has not come without questions and concerns. The number one concern that businesses have is information security. Busine…

The traditional telephone system is being replaced with more technologically advanced and flexible systems. Simply providing a handset at each employee’s workstation just isn’t enough anymore to keep employees productive and efficient. Employees should be equipped with business p…