Articles by Ally Kutz

  1. CompTIA Highlights Solutions Provider Opportunities In The Professional Services Vertical 1/27/2016

    According to the study IT Opportunities in the Professional Services Vertical, 78 percent of accounting, law, and marketing firms rate technology as important in reaching business objectives.

  2. MOOCs And Their Role In Your IT Client’s Business 1/18/2016

    With more than 2,400 courses being offered by more than 400 universities to between 16 and 18 million students in 2014, MOOCs are on the rise.

  3. Will You Sell IT To A CDO This Year? 1/11/2016

    Filling the position of chief digital officer (CDO) is a growing trend among companies worldwide. A survey by Strategy&, PwC’s strategy consulting company, found that although only 6 percent of companies have a CDO, more will assign the role as digital transformation continues.

  4. Fileless Malware Threatens Systems 1/7/2016

    New platform capabilities and threat development innovations have created a new type of fileless malware, according to a report from Intel Security.

  5. IT Professionals Plan On Increasing Advanced Security Solutions In 2016 1/7/2016

    Nearly four in five organizations experienced some kind of IT security incident in 2015, according to a new report from Spiceworks, the professional network for IT.

  6. Education Technology Budgeted In Revisions To No Child Left Behind 12/22/2015

    On December 10, President Barack Obama passed into law the revisions made to the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, collectively called the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). These revisions, which totaled 1,059 pages, include support for education technology. The bill authorized $1.65 billion for education technology and includes training for teachers to use new technologies in the classroom

  7. TCN Platform Assists Training At Junior Blind Of America Call Center Training 12/15/2015

    Platform 3 VocalVision developed by TCN is helping to improve training at the Junior Blind of America’s Los Angeles campus’ Contact Center Training. The technology is helping students to gain contact center skills in order to secure and ensure employment.

  8. Spiceworks Survey: Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Included In IT Budgets 12/11/2015

    More than 40 percent of IT departments in a recent Spiceworks Community survey plan to adopt Microsoft Windows Server 2016 within two years of its release.

  9. Are CIOs Becoming “Internal Service Providers”? 12/3/2015

    Shadow IT is putting more pressure on tech departments according to Logicalis US’ third annual Global CIO Survey.

  10. IRT Retail Tech Spending Report: Budget For mPOS, Digital Signage, Wi-Fi, Security 11/25/2015

    Cloud adoption is up, inventory visibility is down, and mobile point of sale (POS) is ever increasing, according to Innovative Retail Technologies’ report Retail Tech Spending 2016: The Digitization Of The Physical Domain. The report, conducted every third quarter of the year since 2005, surveys IRT subscribers on their tech spending plans for the next year.