MECS TECHNOLOGY ARTICLES
Why School Systems Should Embrace the Cloud
The cloud is not only for business entities, schools can also benefit from utilizing cloud products to improve their networks, enhance security, and increase agility. Furthermore, it can also dramatically improve communication and the sharing of data within school...
Top 5 Ways Organizations are Hacked and How to Protect Yourself
In recent years both enterprises and government agencies have suffered from multiple security breaches. Whether they were industry leading giants or small to medium sized businesses, they all made the same mistakes that made them vulnerable to cyber attacks. The most...
7 Ways to Reduce your IT Budget
If you are looking for ways to reduce your overall spending, your IT budget may come up for discussion. But if you choose to go down this path, cost-cutting decisions should be made conscientiously as it’s critical to ensure that your IT infrastructure is consistently...
5 Ways to Protect Your Business From Ransomware
With the increasing rate of cyber crime, it has become imperative to take counter measures to ensure that your company is not exploited in any way. Companies that have suffered at the hands of cyber attacks are well aware of the losses they incur. Millions of dollars...
The Benefits of VoIP for Small Businesses
Businesses now have good and compelling reasons to take back control of their employee communication. Such control allows businesses to truly own voice-based relationships. They can manage growth opportunities, projecting greater competence to their market. They can...
Things to Consider When Hiring a Managed Services Provider
If you have been struggling to keep up with your organization’s IT demands, and have found your team focused more on technical support opposed to driving the company’s IT vision, it may be time to start looking for an outside firm to help support. Managed service...
How Access Control Systems Reduce Costs for Your Organization
Implementing an access control system enables company administrators to not only limit access to sensitive areas and resources, but also provide them a mechanism to minimize the risk of loss associated with inadvertent damages and preventable loss of time. There are...
Importance of Physical & Virtual Security in K12 Schools
The integration of networked devices has taken off in the K12 sector over the last twenty years, with everything from student information to lesson plans going from paper copies to all digital documents hosted on centralized servers. This has vastly reshaped...
How Airports Can Improve the Parking Experience
Airports all around the world are working hard to make the air travel experience as quick and easy as possible. Parking is generally something flyers try to avoid, as this takes time and costs them money. In addition to this, the number of flights per day at airports...
Top K12 Tech Trends For 2017 Superintendents Need to Know
Technology has enabled educators to teach and engage students in ways previously not thought possible. As technology continues to advance in the education space, new trends emerge that leaders in the education sector must know and plan for. These type of advancements...