Entries by Kirill Bensonoff

Powerful IT Strategies from the Most Successful SMBs

Small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) are allocating increasingly larger budgets to invest and utilize IT-based systems and technologies to cut their operating costs and gauge more efficient business processes. Firms across Europe have been reported to spend a higher percentage of their IT budgets to adapt to the increasingly information-based business landscape. “After several years of […]

Businesses Use Cases for the Apple Watch

–Can the Apple Watch prove to be beneficial for businesses? Ever since Apple showcased its plan to step into the wearable technology market using its Watch, thought leaders have been speculating on its potential applications in driving business growth. There is no question that the Watch will be embraced with open arms by customers as […]

AWS’ Epic Disclosure of Its Financials – What Does It Mean to SMBs?

Amazon’s first disclosure of its financial results for the first quarter of 2015 of its cloud services division – Amazon’s Web-Services (AWS) – revealed an astonishing achievement that has left many investors astounded. The online giant’s booming operating profit margin of approximately 17% shows the overwhelming success that its cloud computing services have to offer […]

Preparing for Software-Defined Everything

The IT industry is seeing its most rapid change in decades. From Big Data analytics to flash storage to the cloud, the old rules are being upturned and IT teams have to figure a way through the confusion. Things aren’t helped by all the hype, on one side, and all the FUD, on the other […]

Financial Services IT Security For Business Growth

Too often we hear from new clients in the financial services sector they’ve suffered panic and disorganization in their security protection. In this post we’re going to outline outdated approaches as well our recommendations to thwart invasion. Cyber threats are proliferating faster than most lending institutions can fully understand. It’s often best to approach delving […]

IT Planning For Law Firms – why, and how

Apparently there is a growing threat of cyber attack of law firms. What’s surprising is the number of law firm intrusions which often go unreported. In fact, since March of 2014, financial institutions and law firms have begun talks to establish a collective effort to share hacker threats. The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis […]

5 Tips To Better IT Security for SMB

If you haven’t followed the technology news lately, chances are good you missed the recent security breach news of Target and Blue Cross: Customers won a $10 million settlement against Target relating to the retailer’s Dec. 2013 data breach; in the meantime, nearly eleven million customers suffered exposure of their personal data with Premera Blue […]