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It should come as no surprise that many small to midsize business owners take pride in overseeing every aspect of their startup business. Naturally, many are apprehensive when it comes to surrendering control of their servers, their data, and their applications.

It's a fast paced world. Not only do people want things, they want things right now. This sometimes unnerving need for instant satisfaction has only intensified now that we have WiFi and mobile devices that keep us connected regardless of where we are, what we are doing, or the time of day.

So what is the cloud? 

Accessing needed information using only  Internet access is working in the cloud. The management of daily tasks online can be referred to as cloud computing.  Online banking,  You Tube, using websites to book travel

It is less than one week before the new Canadian Anti Spam Legislation, CASL, comes into effect.  Among other things this new act regulates how email and text messaging is used when contacting the public.  The public in this case includes all consumers whether in a consumer or business context.

Technology is full of difficult jargon. To further complicate things, certain terms are often used in a different context between one publication or service provider and the next. An example of this is the usage of backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity.

You still have Windows XP running on some (or all) of your computers.  You know you should upgrade but you're not sure what it entails and what you should do.  Here are some things to think about and some steps you can consider.

Your XP computers are old

If your computers are running Windows XP then they are definitely old.

Over the past couple of weeks I have been seeing some messages from companies who have me as part of their email distribution list.  The gist of these messages is an explicit request for me to subscribe once more to their list.  

The reason this is happening is the impending regulations for the Canadian Anti Spam Legislation, CASL for short, which come into effect on Canada Day, July 1.  Those companies who have started this process are taking one of the necessary steps to bring themselves into compliance with the legislation.

Many SMBs don't realize it, but the path to some grand cybercrime score of a lifetime may go right through their backdoor. SMBs are commonly vendors, suppliers, or service providers who work with much larger enterprises. Unfortunately, they may be unaware that this makes them a prime target for hackers.

In an age when most  business happens online, not showing up in online search results from the major search engines like Google and Bing can really hurt you. While there

How many of your employees have branched off and started business' of their own? This makes it the responsibility of every business, especially those collecting and storing customer/client information, to implement a multi pronged approach to safeguard information.