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Managing Your IT Budget in 2024 and Beyond

As your business evolves, managing your IT budget becomes more complicated and involved. To many, it’s a painful administration process that leads to a lot of hair-pulling, especially in today’s tricky business environment. We’re here to save your hair and help you control that IT budget! Whether you’re a private…

Keeping Your Family Safe Online: Microsoft Family Safety

By Peter Drummond0 CommentsCybersecurity

The IT world is abuzz with information about how to keep your business processes and your clients’ data safe. We hear about firewalls, VPN’s, two-factor authentication, antivirus software… the list goes on. We don’t hear as much about keeping your family safe online. Everyone wants to keep our kids safe…

How to Encourage Innovation

By Peter Drummond0 CommentsHelpful Tech

Learning how to encourage innovation in your company is a massive cog in the machine of success. Without innovation you’re going to be playing catch up to your competitors. You’ll wallow in mediocrity while your imaginative and adventurous rivals forge ahead on paths of accomplishment. In the competitive battlefield of…

The Cost of Non-Innovation

By Peter Drummond0 CommentsHelpful Tech

There’s a story that gets tossed around the water filter every now and then. Could be fact, could be urban legend, who knows. In it, the board members of Blockbuster video are having a conference. One of the topics is an upstart video streaming service called Netflix, who had a…

Become a Microsoft Teams Power User

By Peter Drummond0 CommentsHelpful Tech

Anyone who has been following Smile IT knows what a big fan we are of Microsoft Teams. An office communication juggernaut, Teams streamlines internal and external interactions and is an immense boost to productivity. Teams may be an easy program to get the hang of, but behind the ease-of-use lurks…

Why Brisbane Businesses Should Backup Their Data

By Peter Drummond0 CommentsCybersecurity

Data loss is one of the single biggest threats facing businesses today. Your business and client data is the lifeblood of your business and is of great value to you. In today’s age of cybercriminals, this value makes it vulnerable. It becomes a target of hackers and online miscreants, eager…

What is Disaster Recovery and Why is it Important?

By Peter Drummond0 CommentsHelpful Tech

There’s a buzzword that’s emerging as the business world adapts to the post-pandemic environment: resilience. The rush to work from home, the unprecedented drop in customer activity and a rise in cybercrime and online criminal activity have created a perfect storm. Organisations in Brisbane and around the world without sufficient…

Cybersecurity Framework: The Importance of NIST

By Peter Drummond0 CommentsCybersecurity

In terms of cyber security and staying safe online, it’s a jungle out there. Phishing scams are increasing exponentially while ‘hackers for hire’ are using their skills to exploit whatever they can from businesses of all sizes. Throw in a pandemic that’s disrupted where and how people work and we…

Device Monitoring in Brisbane Using Internet of Things

By Peter Drummond0 CommentsBrisbane Internet Of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) has become more prevalent in our everyday lives and businesses, to the point where we all use it in some form or another. The IDC (International Data Corporation) estimates that by 2025 there will be 41.6 billion connected IoT devices. Broadly speaking, IoT refers to…