Is Your Infrastructure Ready for UCaaS?
As the pandemic expanded across the globe, enterprises were forced to scramble to equip employees and customers with the communications tools necessary for business continuity. Many turned to unified communications as a service (UCaaS) as a quick upgrade to meet the needs of end users. While those end users tend
Your Internet, Phone, Cable and Network Bills are About to go Through the Roof in 2021!
Merry Christmas! The FCC Just dropped a massive tax bill on your lap and your phone and Internet bill is about to go through the roof… I’m Max Clark, CEO of ITBroker.com, and in the United States we pay a ton of taxes on our communication services: this
Backups, Backups, Backups! How to Backup Your Data Simply and Successfully
Raise your hand if you’ve ever had data loss! Have you ever a toddler delete all the photos off your phone? Have you ever dropped a laptop off the table and shattered it into a billion pieces? There’s lots of things that can happen to you that cause
Why Your Enterprise Should Consider Managed Security
Across many enterprises, there is a shortage of IT security personnel – from incident responders to threat intelligence analysts and even at the leadership level. This increases the risk of cyber security threats to these businesses – a concern in pre-COVID-19 times, but even more so a worry today with the spike
Stop Spying on Your Employees! How to Manage Employee Productivity Without Using Spyware
Stop Spying on Your Employees! As the world has transitioned into work-from-anywhere solutions, one thing that we commonly get asked is about employee monitoring, and what we call is just: Spyware. And you hear these things all the time about systems that you can install and employees’ desktop, it takes
How Working From Home May Lead to an Autonomous Network
The high numbers of people in a work-from-home setting has IT teams working to implement software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN), secure access service edge (SASE), and artificial intelligence (AI). The end result is that these tools are laying the foundation for an eventual autonomous network. The building blocks of these
How Remote Work Is Amplifying the Need for SD-WAN
In the last few months, the shift to working from home has increased an already pressing need for new WAN solutions, with software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) emerging as the clear solution for an increasingly complex networking environment. The early days of the WAN utilized it as a way to
Global Business: How Do You Interconnect Your Multiple Locations?
No matter where you are on the planet, unless you are on the exact same network, your users talking to your infrastructure on the exact same network, your networks have to interconnect with each other. They interconnect with each other at an access point, a network exchange point, an interjection
How Close (or Far) Does Your Datacenter Need to Be?
A question we’ve been asked for over 20 years now is: How close or how far does your datacenter need to be to your business? and the answer is… it depends on you and your business! Here’s some things that actually influence this decision: * The first thing is
Four Ways Big Data Is Equipping Efforts Against COVID-19
As COVID-19 remains a menacing challenge for public health officials and health care workers, the discouraging news of increasing cases and deaths can be overwhelming. It’s good to get a glimpse into efforts around containing and treating the virus, and, ultimately, getting past the pandemic with a vaccine. Across
5G Hype vs Reality: How Does it Affect your Business?
5G, 6G, 7G, 10G, 20G, 57,000G… What the G difference?! If you’ve been on the Internet or watched a piece of media or seen a billboard in the last two years, you’ve seen an advertisement talking about 5G. “5G is coming, 5G is coming, 5G is coming,
10 Things to Consider BEFORE Talking to Tech Salespeople
Occasionally we get asked questions along the lines of, “Why would we work with you and work with a broker versus working directly with the inside salesperson from this company?” And, “Won’t we get better support from that inside salesperson, ’cause they have more control, more leverage over their
Data Center Security: The Safest Approach to Protecting Data
Given the value of the information that companies in every industry store in data centers, data center security becomes a high priority. From anomaly detection to physical security, predictive analytics to disaster recovery solutions, data centers today are tasked with keeping up with the latest technologies to safeguard information. Detecting
Struggling with the Security of your Remote Workforce? Here's What You Can Do
This year we’ve seen a massive shift in distributed workforce. Call it work-from-home, call it distributed, call it work-from-anywhere, call it whatever you want… but the reality is that your employees who used to be in your office, using your computer equipment attached to your network, are now somewhere
Does Your Business have Shadow IT? You probably do... How do you find it?
If you’ve never heard of Shadow IT, it could be a big problem for your business and you absolutely need to understand what it is. Shadow IT can be a huge problem for your business and something that you need to be paying attention to. First: What is Shadow
SD-WAN Implementations Prioritized for Remote Workforce
Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) implementations have long been favored by enterprises pursuing digital transformation strategies. The virtual overlay offers the ability to segment traffic, improves visibility, and prioritizes mission-critical transmissions, all while supporting the bandwidth-hungry demands of cloud solutions. Now, SD-WAN is being tapped as a way to support
Investing in Security for Your Company: Where to Start?
No matter how much money you spend on security, you are never going to prevent an incident, a bridge, a hack- something -penetrating your network. I’m not saying this as a you should throw your hands up in the air and just say, “Oh we give up because we
Email Platform Outages? Be Ready with Email Continuity
Microsoft 365 and Azure Active Directory had three massive outages in the last month. Has this impacted your business? And what can you do about it now? What is an email continuity service? Email continuity is a feature of an email gateway -email filtering- platform. Usually these vendors in the
Cyber Security Cost Saving Measures That Won’t Impede Performance
Among the more expensive aspects of an organization’s efforts to stay safe is the development and upkeep of a cyber security framework. Given the state of the economy right now, enterprises aren’t exactly looking to shell out big bucks. Most enterprises are actually cutting costs, which makes the
Which Cloud Solution is Right for Your business, and How Can You Save Money on Cloud Costs?
Public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, multi cloud, infrastructure as a service, cloud compute, hyper-scale, mumbo-jumbo.,.. Which one of these is right for you? And how do we match you to the right environment for your business? A massively common discussion on the internet is cloud and cloud costs, and
What is SD-WAN? What type of SD-WAN is Right for Your Business?
At a current count, there’s over 85 different SD-WAN service providers! Which one of those 85 vendors is right for your business? I’m Max Clark, CEO of ITBroker.com and we’re going to talk about SD-WAN and why SD-WAN is so important for your business. First off,
No, I Won't Link to Your Spammy Article
Chances are you’ve arrived here from a link sent to you via email. That email would have been a reply to one you originally sent that would have sounded something like this: Hi, I came across your blog on [thing] and I must admit, it was really nicely written.
What is Microsoft Teams Direct Routing and is it good for your business?
I’m Max, CEO of ITBroker.com, and what do you need to know about Microsoft Teams Direct routing? The first thing is: what licensing that you need to support. Microsoft has changed recently. What licenses are available to voice-enable Microsoft Teams? There is a difference between their E1 and