It seems like every day there is a new media report about a malicious cyber-attack or a new super hacker group. Whether it’s reports of Yahoo users’ accounts being compromised (again!) or another business paying ransomware demands, many IT security professionals are left feeling overwhelmed and unprepared. (Source: Yahoo). With more and more vulnerabilities and…
When you forget a password to an online account, an identity and access management (IAM) system ensures that you are who you say you are and not a random person attempting to access your data. We rely on IAM solutions every day to protect our personal data and accounts. Similar precautions should be applied to…
More businesses aiming to adapt to their evolving communications demands are turning to hosted PBX. SMBs and enterprise organizations can all take advantage of the variety of features that cloud-based phone systems offer, gaining flexibility and improving cost management for today and into the future. But selecting the right hosted PBX vendor can be a…
As business environments change, so does the way we communicate. Telephone service is becoming much more than simply a desk phone and a dial tone. Employees are demanding extensive features such as the ability to transition seamlessly between desk phone and their mobile phone. They also want features like visual voicemail, a virtual receptionist, call…
We live in a world where disasters can come in many forms. There are natural disasters, internal data leaks, external cyber attacks, hardware and software fails, and just good old fashion human error. People overwrite backups, SANs crash, and data gets corrupted. It’s all part of the game when we’re talking about enterprise IT. To…
It used to be that organizations turned to data centers for the basics, such as sufficient power, along with cooling, and backup services to keep IT systems up and running even in the event of an outage. Businesses relied on colocation partners to manage their hardware assets, deliver carrier and connectivity options, and provide network…
Services That Power Customer Innovation, Process, & Thought Welcome to Shoc Networks. Over the last 12 to 18 months we have been growing our telecommunication and cloud service business to provide additional engagement, services, and value to our customers who have long-term procured networking hardware, optics/transceivers, and asset management from us. Over this time, we…
The desire to improve bandwidth capacity at branch offices, expand the use of cloud applications and grow mobility options, have all pushed enterprises to look for innovative ways to improve traditional wide area networks (WANs). In meeting these goals, organizations are also looking for solutions that untangle the complexity of managing these networks, as well…