Industry noise, marketing fluff, and information disparity explain why a recent poll showing 64% of US-based business decision-makers use third-party consultants and system integrators when buying IT products, services, and solutions.

We are now almost one-year into this ridiculous pandemic. There is certainly the smell of rebound in the air. As talks of rebooting and restarting take root, executives are already feeling the pressure to optimize, reinvest, and continue to reduce costs to help keep their companies moving forward.

Reduce costs, consolidate, eliminate redundancies: Technology rationalization is a helpful exercise for any business

Companies of all sizes are seeing desirable outcomes from digital transformation efforts. But the path to value starts with defining a strategy for your specific business needs and desired outcomes.

We're all used to having Windows updates being a complete crap show, but Outlook? Office!? What's going on here?

We all know the big mobile carriers: Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile. Then there are the other consumer-level cell phone carriers we all hear about. But what about alternative mobile carriers for business?

Claro Mobility, the largest, global MVNO: Mobile Voice, Text, Data, and IoT. Choose your network and monthly plan. Easy.

MetTel’s partnership with the most trusted wireless carriers in the U.S. provides a reliable network to keep your mobile workforce connected. MetTel’s Deploy plan provides complete, end-to-end mobility management of corporate phones.

As talks of re-starting the economy take root, executives will begin feeling the pressure to reduce costs to help keep their companies afloat.

Just a few years ago, when it came to application implementation, IT held all the power. If Marketing wanted a new CRM, it would need to be technically blessed, deployed, and provisioned by IT. Things have drastically changed.

It's probably not surprising that remote workers outperform office workers in several key areas. Studies have shown that people working remotely are more productive, better at collaborating, and more present than their office-bound counterparts.

Technology started allowing us to work remotely in the early 2000s. originally allowing people to connect to corporate networks from home to access email, file servers or other systems. A lot has changed, for the better.

I just got an e-mail from the WHO asking for a donation to help fight coronavirus. It looked good. It sounded good. It was a fake. Asking for a donation in Bitcoin set off my alarm. We may get sick, but phishing, the art of conning people via email or texts, is as healthy as ever.

Many organizations have shifted their tools and systems for remote teams for the first time due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For employees and employers, this is a major adjustment. Now is the time to optimize the rushed solutions set in place. Cloud 9 is here to help.

For businesses suffering from COVID-19, contact Cloud 9. Many of our providers are offering non-profits, healthcare providers, and small businesses six months of free Cloud Desktops, including free Microsoft Office with Microsoft Teams, for up to 10 users.