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Canadians can’t live without the Internet

Would you give up your daily Tim Horton’s coffee in exchange for Internet access? How about that Cadbury bar or your daily can of Molson’s? In a recent survey c...

Dell’s latest design for SMBs

As a small business owner, you are probably quite familiar with this problem: no one makes hardware or software that fits your unique needs. You either wind up ...

Brinkman pushing collaboration efficiency

New Westminster, B.C.-based Brinkman & Associates Reforestation Ltd. is engaged in an ongoing program to introduce Microsoft’s SharePoint to support its 120...

FedDev funnelling $2 M into Ottawa IT startups

The Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario) announced on Monday that it will be investing nearly $2 million in the region's IT...

SMBs considering VoIP need to do their homework

Small and medium businesses considering the installation of VoIP to replace standard phone systems must seriously consider the positives and negatives of doing ...

  • Canadians can’t live without the Internet

  • Dell’s latest design for SMBs

  • Brinkman pushing collaboration efficiency

  • FedDev funnelling $2 M into Ottawa IT startups

  • SMBs considering VoIP need to do their homework
U of T adoption of MS cloud a “win-win”
The University of Toronto functions as a city within a city. With three campuses, 70,000 students and more than 20,000 staff and faculty, the university serves a large and heterogeneous community that has highly diverse IT needs. In addition to support for administrative systems and compute...

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Cloud and the Canadian SMB
In a new research report, IT Market Dynamics – Canada’s most widely read IT research organization – uses a survey of more than 300 non-IT business managers to explore the benefits and pitfalls associated with cloud computing.

Cloud and the Canadian SMB finds that many businesspeople aren’t aware of current cloud adoption levels – but they are most certainly aware of the potential benefits that can be obtained through cloud. These benefits vary by enterprise size, with small, mid-sized, and large organizations all seeing cloud as a means of addressing current, pressing business needs.

These benefits, though, can only be realized by SMBs whose management is capable of addressing the real-world impediments to adoption, and particularly, the issue around shifting the sourcing paradigm from “we buy, configure, deploy and support discrete pieces of technology” to “we commingle physical units and cloud-based services, with the attendant requirement to build (or rent) expertise in SLA and license management.” In the research, we see that there is a...

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Office 365 gets thumbs up
Microsoft Office 365 is a complete suite of cloud-based productivity applications to help you move your Microsoft Office systems into the cloud with little training or interruption of services. Small businesses that run on Microsoft Office and are used to the approach may wish to consider moving to the cloud to ensure they have the latest product offering and get the benefits of the cloud. This article will review Office 365 and describe the most compelling features. We will also review some areas that can be improved, especially in terms of moving off a local installation of Microsoft Office.

Office 365 aims to allow small and medium sized businesses the flexibility of having a...

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