The Ntiva Tech Corner:
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How resilient do you think your business was to the recent disruption? Did you have a robust plan in place for business continuity? There certainly were mixed results as to how well companies performed!

With the recent and sudden increase in remote collaboration, many workers are taking advantage of Microsoft Teams. As most businesses already have Office 365, it makes sense to use Teams as a single place to meet with distributed colleagues.

With our sudden shift to remote working, it's important to get all employees on a single communication platform. It's incredibly inefficient if everyone is using different apps and services - now is the time to consolidate on an agreed-upon...

A virtual CIO (vCIO) is a dedicated resource who serves as a Chief Information Officer on a flexible basis. Their primary role is to formulate strategic IT goals for your company, and then manage an IT strategy and budget that meets those goals....

It’s hard enough for businesses to stay secure nowadays, and that task is even more daunting now that we rely so heavily on mobile devices. There's a ton of great advice out there, but we've narrowed it down to the 6 top things you should do to...

The right technology can play a significant role in helping you grow your business, increase revenues and outperform the competition. We explain the details behind this, using a business technology pyramid to outline all the important layers that...

Microsoft Office 365 is unique in terms of information security. As the productivity platform where your team gets most of their work done, it represents a trove of data that attackers would be happy to get their hands on. Here are 5 best...

Another day, another organization brought to it's knees by ransomware. What can you do to protect your business from this type of devastation?

Growing a business is hard! All you really want to do is focus on your clients, not the myriad of other challenges. Here’s an example of how IT consulting services helped this business rocket to the top.

Google is clamping down on websites that are not secure, starting with the next release of the Chrome web browser targeted for July 2018. Here's why this change could significantly affect your website traffic, and how to make sure your website is...

Some of you may remember when IT departments had the ability to fully control almost all technology decisions, and who was allowed to use what.

Facebook is changing how it ranks posts, videos and photos that appear in your News Feed, putting friends and family first – and public content (e.g. your business posts) second.

Starting a company is hard, but growing that company into a successful, scalable enterprise is even harder. Our CEO weighs in on the most important factors for growing a successful business in 2018.

Increasing productivity in the office can be a complex beast – after all, there are humans involved – but the right technology can help! 

Despite the best efforts of in-house IT staff, sometimes it’s hard to keep up. Often the most fundamental aspects of keeping your IT infrastructure up and running can bog you down, forcing you to put strategic projects on the back burner.