Continuing with our series of blog entry’s about creating and implementing data storage and back-up plans, we thought we should also share some information about how you can reduce the amount of data that you need to back-up. In our last blog Have You Considered Hybrid Data Storage Solutions we discussed ways to cost effectively store your data while optimizing the speed at which you could use your data. So just how can you reduce the amount of data you are backing up? One way you can reduce the amount and size of the data you need to back up is by implementing data deduplication. Yes, that is not a commonly used word outside of IT circles, but it is one that you will hear more and more as you learn to manage your data. We actually first heard the term last year when a office for rent Toronto tenant asked us if we […]

As we continue our blog series “Has Your Small Business Planned Your Data Storage and Backup Strategy?” that discusses the importance of small business to have a solid plan for their data storage and back-up needs, we wanted to focus this blog entry more on actual local storage of your business data. We want to share some advice on the technology that small businesses who have office space Toronto are looking at, to deploy their centralized data-storage needs that can store and protect their valuable information. There are three basic requirements when considering data storage – cost, capacity and speed of access. As well, there are different types of data-storage devices that help to meet different data-storage requirements. There are your basic hard drives that are available in various capacities and speeds and solid-state hard drives that do not have moving parts and are more akin to computer memory than […]

For years business owners and managers have know that having healthy and happy employees is important to their business. But they did not know how to encourage a healthy work life. While many businesses offer to help subsidize gym memberships and other physical activities outside of business hours, most do not have the tools or ideas about how to encourage healthy practices during working hours within their office space Toronto. Researchers have found that too many people are not getting out of their office even for a breath of fresh air. They are eating their breakfast and lunch at their desks as well. Sitting down to eat in the workplace is becoming more of a regular occasion for an increasing number of workers. What is also concerning is that the diets of many office space workers appear to be based around foods that are high in saturated fat, sugar and […]

Business trends are not just defined by buzzwords and popular fads – but knowing about them can be helpful even if you do not adopt them. Buzzwords like QR codes, Monetizing social media presence, Tweets, Redit, Channels and Platforms, Brand advocacy, Crowd-funding , Comment, Share, Post, Recommend or Check-in are the ones that most people who have office space Toronto are still learning about and slowly adopting. This is unless, of course, they are early adopters or work in the tech industry. Two of the new buzzwords that you will be hearing around your office space Toronto water cooler and meeting rooms Toronto are Content Curation and Optimize for Mobile Search. Now that you have heard them here, you might want to know what they are – so you will know what people are talking about when the drop the buzzwords into a conversation at your office space. Basically, Content […]

Last week we blogged about creating a good password for your office space Toronto computer, as well as having a different stronger password for your various e-mails and online accounts. We showed that a strong password includes upper and lower case characters, numbers and punctuation marks like @#3$%^&!. The problem is remembering that good password without writing it down. This morning in the kitchen at our Toronto office space, a few people were talking around the water cooler and discussing tricks on how to create a strong password that is easy to remember. One idea was to make the password an easily remembered phase like “I like my coffee double double.” This, however, would not be a good password because it includes whole words and no numbers. Instead you could have “i-Llke-mi-C0ff33dbl dbl!” Another trick is to spell some words backwards. Instead of “I like my coffee double double” you could have “ilik-m-eeffoc […]

In our previous blog we discussed the need for having strong or even stronger passwords on you office space Toronto computer and for your e-mail, financials, personal data, online banking and other places on the internet that you wish to keep safe from cyber criminals and would-be hackers. In this blog we will give you some help and information about how to create a stronger password. As we mentioned in the previous blog, you should avoid using whole words because they make it too easy for intruders to guess. When creating a strong password consider using various types of alphabetical characters (upper and lower case), numbers and punctuation symbols such as ` ~ ! @ # &$ % ^  * ) ( _ – + = { } [ ] \ | : ; ” ‘ < > , . ? /. A password might meet all the criteria above […]

It is days like today that I am happy that I have the option of not having to go into my office space Toronto and instead work remotely from home. I woke up this morning to find my car buried in a snowbank and I did not have the energy to dig it out (too much Christmas leftovers last night). I had a great deal of work today and because I could not get my car out, I decided to work from home. All of my files are stored on my cloud server and if clients wanted to reach me at my Toronto office space, I gave the receptionist instructions to forward my calls to my cellphone. My clients hear the same friendly voice who always answers my calls. When she transfers the call, they believe that I am working at my downtown Toronto office space. This was working quite well until […]