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Real-Time Messaging: Data Unearths Surprising Findings on Usage, Distraction, and Organizational Impact

For more than four years, BetterCloud has bi-annually surveyed thousands of IT professionals, producing some of cloud IT’s richest data. Our goal is to help you make more intelligent business decisions and better understand the landscape of business technology. Now, we’ve decided to bring our research efforts further into focus by launching an ambitious and ongoing data project. Last month, ..more ›

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How to Recognize and Prevent Social Engineering Attacks

A few weeks ago, two malicious social engineers impersonating the IRS called one of my close family friends. They yelled at her, threatened her, and told her she owed thousands of dollars in back taxes (not true). They knew her name, her address, and family members’ names. They told her they were outside her house. She was terrified. The attackers ..more ›

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8 Reasons Why You Should Change The Way You Think About Cloud Partners

Through our 2015 Trends in Cloud IT research, we found that today’s cloud-enabled organizations use an average of eight cloud applications. In two years, that number more than doubles to 17. How many cloud applications will you run in five years? In 10? Can your IT team handle that kind of rapid cloud application growth? Perhaps. Will a partner help ..more ›

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Information Security and Pop Culture: How Real-Life Social Engineering Techniques are Used in Movies and Television

It’s how Ferris Bueller took his famous day off. It’s how Sherlock Holmes, Walter White, and even Hannibal Lecter got information they were looking for. So what’s their secret? Social engineering. Social Engineering: An attack vector that uses psychological manipulation and deception in human interactions to obtain sensitive or confidential data. In the world of information security, these types of ..more ›

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Google Slides (aka Presentations) Tips to Help Kick Your PowerPoint Addiction

If there’s one conclusion you’ll reach after reading this article, it’s that Google Slides has some tricks up its sleeve. Jenny Lee is a graphic designer at BetterCloud and the artist behind the 2016 State of Cloud IT presentation. She shared her top tricks in Google Slides that she used while building the 2016 State of Cloud IT presentation. More than 35,000 people have viewed ..more ›

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How the IT Guy Became the “It Guy”: The Evolving Portrayal of Tech Professionals in Movies and Television

What do funnyman Jimmy Fallon and New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. have in common? It might surprise you, but they’ve both played IT specialists on television. IT and tech professionals are popping up everywhere in pop culture: television shows, movies, commercials, comics, and even memes. Their portrayals are typically limited to negative “nerd” tropes and stereotypes, but ..more ›

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Meet BetterCloud’s New Chief Revenue Officer, Russell Sachs

In the world of SaaS and enterprise software sales, few people are as experienced or knowledgeable as Russell Sachs. Russell, who started his career as a trial attorney, parlayed his law experience into a successful sales career that spans nearly 20 years and includes leadership roles at companies like Dell, MessageOne, and Work Market. He sat down to discuss emerging ..more ›

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Here’s What 3 IT Professionals Have Learned Since Moving to the Cloud

There’s a technological and ideological shift occurring that’s altering the very function of IT. Whether you like the term “cloud” or not, the evidence is mounting that on-premises technology is being passed over by thriving technology companies or ripped out and replaced by organizations preparing for a cloud-based future. Savvy IT professionals are getting out in front of the trend, ..more ›

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The Rising Tide: How One IT Team Redefined Emergency Communications

In a field near Jamestown, Colorado, a woman huddles over a car seat holding her child. Behind the woman, a rescuer walks to escort her and her child to a grounded CH-47 Chinook helicopter, whose dual rotors spin loudly less than a football field away. Two hours away, just west of Colorado Springs, onlookers watch helplessly as a mudslide on ..more ›

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Here’s How You Provide Wi-Fi for all 70,000 Super Bowl Attendees

When 74-year-old Tom Henschel, one of only three known fans to have attended every Super Bowl, stepped inside Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. last Sunday, he likely reflected on his first-ever Super Bowl experience. A lot has changed since 1967. Super Bowl tickets went for $12, the stadium didn’t sell out, and no one logged on to Wi-Fi to ..more ›

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