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5 Reasons to Change your IT Support Provider

Today, many businesses rely on outsourced IT Support and the thought of switching incumbent IT partners can be a very daunting task. There is no one-size-fits-all approach, but why would you look to change in the first place? Here’s five potential reasons why you many consider changing your managed IT support provider. 1. Your current […]

3/22/2021Read

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The evolution of edtech trends

In 2020, educators became heavily tech-reliant during lockdown to keep in touch with their pupils. Yet still, keeping pupils motivated from afar was a complex challenge. This ongoing issue with remote learning has forced a pragmatism around tech-use. Teachers and other school staff have recognised that edtech must support learning goals and pupils’ results to be effective […]

2/21/2021Read

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The Top 5 Questions you could ask us

More frequently than ever before, we’re receiving calls and enquiries from businesses like yours, who are unhappy with their current IT partner or service provider. And from these many calls, we’ve noticed a trend. A lot of business owners and managers like you want more. More than you’re currently being provided when it comes to […]

1/25/2021Read

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The role of Education IT Managers during the recent pandemic

There have been huge challenges for the education sector over the last year. Schools, colleges and universities had to close because of Covid-19 and establishments quickly found themselves trying to adjust to an online world, delivering classes remotely. While teachers and students have been on various media outlets explaining the challenges they’ve faced over the […]

1/21/2021Read

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3 ways Hybrid Clouds offer SMBs more flexibility

Even though many SMBs have made the switch to cloud solutions, concerns around regulatory compliance and security have made it difficult for them to successfully and seamlessly migrate all their resources to open cloud servers. If you’re among those businesses, then the solution is hybrid clouds – a mix of public and private clouds. By […]

12/22/2020Read

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How to combat Phishing Scams using Office 365

Today, Microsoft is among the undisputed leaders in providing business productivity solutions. Its growing commitment to helping subscribers maximize cybersecurity is pivotal to its global dominance and reputation. To help fight phishing, Microsoft has included powerful features within Microsoft Office 365 that can keep users safe from online scams when using Outlook. Among them is […]

12/14/2020Read

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How to stay productive and motivated when working remotely

Since the pandemic, companies all around the world are doing everything they can to accommodate remote working. Thankfully, today’s technology and online tools have made it very easy to collaborate and work from home. However, working remotely certainly comes with its own set of challenges – one of them revolving around burnout as a result […]

12/9/2020Read

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Best Security Practices for your Remote Workers

Working from home is a win-win for employees and employers. It helps businesses cut costs, boosts employee autonomy and helps you to continue running your daily business affairs safely in the midst of the pandemic. However, since your workers are no longer working within the security parameters of the company, the chances of security breaches […]

11/27/2020Read

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Microsoft Office 365 – Secure by Default

Secure by default in Office 365 Secure by Default – Honoring EOP/ATP detonation verdictsMC226683 Major update: Announcement started Applied To: All We’re making some changes to how tenant (Anti-spam/Hosted Content Filter policy) and user (Safe sender) allows work when it comes to high confidence phish. A message is marked with the high confidence phish verdict […]

11/21/2020Read

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Why you cannot do without a Business Continuity Plan

The majority of SMB (small-medium business) owners fall in this trap: they often don’t have a plan to deal with unexpected crisis because they aren’t expecting one. And when the crisis hits, they were caught almost completely off-guard. This can cause a severe loss in revenue and productivity due to the resulting downtime. As an […]

11/17/2020Read

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Workplace As A Service (WaaS)

With ever changing technology, business requirements and support issues, NextWave IT has developed a flexible packaged service to help clients migrate to a secure, hybrid cloud solution coupled with support excellence. You also want to be “spin-up” solutions for new employees and potentially contractors without incurring high upfront costs. Consider this as a “pay-as-you-go” solution where […]

11/11/2020Read

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WFH: As workplace culture changes, tech support becomes remote-first

We’ve experienced what could be the fastest and vastest global transformation in working practices in human history as enterprises changed their businesses this year to support remote working in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It hasn’t been without pain, and the impact of that change continues to be felt. What’s happened in IT? With these shifts affecting […]

10/29/2020Read

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5 Reasons to Change your IT Support Provider

The evolution of edtech trends

The Top 5 Questions you could ask us

The role of Education IT Managers during the recent pandemic

3 ways Hybrid Clouds offer SMBs more flexibility

How to combat Phishing Scams using Office 365

How to stay productive and motivated when working remotely

Best Security Practices for your Remote Workers

Microsoft Office 365 &#8211; Secure by Default

Why you cannot do without a Business Continuity Plan

Workplace As A Service (WaaS)

WFH: As workplace culture changes, tech support becomes remote-first

Microsoft Office 365 – Secure by Default