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How to Maximise the Value of the Cloud

In an uncertain world, the cloud provides a nerve-calming surety. A safe place, a refuge, a panacea to lockdown-inspired corporate headaches. When businesses should have been shutting their doors, the cloud allowed them to thrive. It’s given us flexibility, agility and a greater capacity for innovation than ever before. If…

10 Ways to Keep Your Home Office Secure

By Gavin Wyatt0 CommentsCybersecurity

Working remotely has actually been on the increase for a number of years, with technology and work schedules making it easier and often more suitable. Then along came COVID-19, and suddenly it’s rare to find someone who hasn’t experienced working from home. With the future being a little bit uncertain…

How Smile IT Transitioned to Working from Home

By Gavin Wyatt0 CommentsSmile IT News

It’s amazing how Australia has risen to the challenges posed by the pandemic. There have been some tough moments in this isolation journey, but the Australian spirit has shone through and it looks like we’ve got the upper hand. Kids are going back to school, restrictions are slowly being eased…

How Microsoft Office 365 Helps You Work Remotely

By Gavin Wyatt0 CommentsHelpful Tech

Millions of us around the world are now safely ensconced in our home offices. We no longer have the ability to catch up with colleagues over the water cooler, meet around a computer to work on a project or call a boardroom meeting. It’s a heck of a transition to…

How to Look Your Best on a Video Call

By Gavin Wyatt0 CommentsHelpful Tech

The outbreak of the Coronavirus has thrust videoconferencing into the centre of our lives. We’re confined to our homes and interactions with people are minimised and sanitised, so the face-to-face interactions a video call offers are extremely important to our work and social lives. We’re embracing them with open arms,…

Free Videoconferencing: What are the Zoom Alternatives?

By Gavin Wyatt0 CommentsHelpful Tech

Even before these crazy times of Covid-19, the mobile workforce phenomenon was on the rise. Technology allows us to stay connected, access our work and communicate constantly with our team no matter where we are in the world. People could work from home, from the beach, from the waiting room…

Balancing Working from Home with Homework

By Gavin Wyatt0 CommentsHelpful Tech

We’re in unchartered territory here people, and it kind of sucks. It really sucks actually! Coronavirus is serious, probably the most serious global event many of us will face in our lifetimes. But we’re all in it together and we’ll come out the other side together. Remember your neighbours are…

The Importance of Business Telecommunications

By Gavin Wyatt0 CommentsHelpful Tech

Never before has the importance of business telecommunications been more apparent. They’re advancing at a brisk pace, fuelled by a rapidly evolving internet. No longer are we restricted to a simple voice call, today our sophisticated systems integrate voice, data and video. Having business grade internet with accompanying voice and…

7 Benefits of a Mobile Workforce

By Gavin Wyatt0 CommentsHelpful Tech

The days of punching in, staring longingly at a clock for exactly 8 hours and then punching out are fading into the past. Today’s workforce is a mobile, agile mega-mix of working from home, taking calls on the run and even putting in some business hours when on holiday. Should…