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3 Tactics for Sustainable IT

By Stephen Murphy | Cloud, Connectivity, Contact Center, Infrastructure, Internet of Things, IoT, Remote Work, Security, Sustainability, Trending Topics, UCaaS, Unified Communications as a Service | 0 comment | 20 January, 2023 | 0

Can Technology be Green? Gartner forecasts that by 2025, 50% of CIOs will have performance metrics tied to sustainability but technology, by its nature, is energy intensive. How can companies make IT more sustainable while delivering compelling solutions? Tactics for Greener IT1. Efficient Hardware Consider more efficient hardware. Move workloads to hyperscalers or cloud providers.Read more

Sierra Wireless

Sierra Wireless Ransomware Attack Update

By Stephen Murphy | News, Security, Trending Topics, Wireless | 0 comment | 26 March, 2021 | 7

Sierra Wireless has confirmed that its internal IT infrastructure was subjected to a ransomware attack. No ARG clients have reported any impact. ARG continues to monitor the situation. Sierra Wireless’s internal technology infrastructure was largely shut down this week due to a ransomware attack. Manufacturing and administrative services were halted at several locations, and itsRead more

hacked

How Do You Know If You’ve Been Hacked?

By Stephen Murphy | News, Security, Trending Topics | 0 comment | 17 April, 2020 | 0

With phishing and other security attacks on the rise, are you confident that your network is secure? We ask clients all the time how they would know if a cyber-attack compromised their network or users. Responses generally include: – When someone has an issue with their computer – If we start getting complaints that theRead more

Security Breach

What the Facebook Security Breach Means to You

By Stephen Murphy | Security | 0 comment | 17 October, 2018 | 1

You’ve probably heard that Facebook has had a security breach. According to Facebook, the accounts of 50 million users have been compromised. That is just 5% of Facebook’s user base. But the Facebook breach is actually a much bigger deal than 50 million accounts being hacked. How many of us use Facebook or Google toRead more

Module 2: Security Strategy Development – Identify Where You Need To Go

By Stephen Murphy | Security, Trending Topics | 0 comment | 13 December, 2017 | 0

We are on the third installment of our cybersecurity for mid-sized companies program! If you missed our introduction, consider reading the Cybersecurity Strategy & Budgeting Guide overview before proceeding further. Now that you have conducted your active threat assessment, vulnerability assessment, penetration testing and compliance audits, as applicable, you are feeling one of two emotions: significantRead more

Cyber Security

Cybersecurity Module 1: Evaluating the Current State – Know Where You Stand

By Stephen Murphy | Security, Trending Topics | 0 comment | 14 November, 2017 | 0

We are embarking on our cybersecurity for mid-sized companies program! If you missed our introduction, consider reading the Cybersecurity Strategy & Budgeting Guide overview before proceeding further. ARG’s program is designed to assist you in understanding the types of security threats you need to manage. We will also discuss how to go about identifying aRead more

Cybersecurity Strategy and Budgeting

Cybersecurity Strategy & Budgeting Guide

By Stephen Murphy | Security, Trending Topics | 1 comment | 1 November, 2017 | 0

87% of C-suite executives and Board Members do not have confidence in their company’s level of cybersecurity. (Ernst & Young)

How can your executives be among the 13% that do trust in their cyber security program? The answer may be easier than you think.  

Bankruptcy

Need Clear Direction Regarding the Avaya Bankruptcy?

By Stephen Murphy | News | 0 comment | 21 January, 2017 | 0

Avaya filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this week after months of speculation, what does that mean for their customers and partners?

The definition of IT insanity

By Stephen Murphy | Trending Topics | 0 comment | 4 May, 2016 | 0

Learn the whats and whys of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and why you’d have to be insane not to at least examine it as an alternative to the normal IT procurement cycle in ARG’s latest cloud education blog.

How IT can increase productivity

By Stephen Murphy | Trending Topics | 0 comment | 25 April, 2016 | 0

An increasing “must have” in commercial IT services today is desktop as a service (DaaS). Not only does DaaS improve employee productivity and ease of getting work done from anywhere on any device, but DaaS is increasingly recognized as a key component to the security strategy of an organization. Learn how this technology increases efficiency and eases  IT management burdens.

How to avoid minor IT disasters

By Stephen Murphy | Trending Topics | 0 comment | 20 April, 2016 | 0

Minor disasters might be severe weather keeping your employees at home, a power outage in the middle of the summer, an innocent mouse click that downloads a virus which holds your data for ransom, or even accidentally saving over a document that then needs to be recovered. These are individually inconvenient – well, your data being held for ransom is more than an inconvenience – but in the aggregate, they probably represent a significant impact upon the productivity of the business and the IT organization.

Learn the 5 keys to a modern system that will protect you against all disasters- big and small.

What it’s like to Move to the Cloud

By Stephen Murphy | Success Story, Trending Topics | 0 comment | 12 April, 2016 | 1

Sample Use Case for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

An ARG client for voice and data was on the verge of making a substantial investment in infrastructure. Even though time was of the essence, we asked them to consider an alternative to resolve their situation. Rather than just replace what they had, we encouraged them to think differently. The results speak for themselves…

Cloud – The Shift is Happening

By Stephen Murphy | Cloud, Cloud Computing, News, Trending Topics | 0 comment | 7 April, 2016 | 0

Beginning in 2014, ARG saw interest in cloud services start to grow substantially. Our clients were getting comfortable with the solutions and 3 key elements were being addressed to their satisfaction:

·         Security. The concern that the cloud is less secure than their own datacenter. Gartner and other independent analyst firms have studied the risks, concluding that cloud is generally more secure than premises-based implementations.

·         Savings. 

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