No business can succeed today without email. It is simply an integral part of the day-to-day activities of all companies in every sector. Whether it is used to contact contractors and suppliers or as a channel of communication for customer service, email is invaluable to all businesses. Traditionally, there has been just one dominant email…
Being able to connect with customers and clients efficiently, quickly and easily is something which can benefit all small businesses. In the same vein, providing a rapid and reliable response to those customers when they need to reach you, is also critical. It is that, therefore, which makes office phone systems so vital to a…
Not matter what their particular sector, once a small business reaches a certain size it simply cannot do without a network server. In many ways, a small business server is the nerve centre of the organisation and that means that choosing the right one for you is absolutely crucial. Whether you are looking to invest…
It is an old adage that moving house is the most stressful thing that life can throw at an individual but that’s only the case because most people never have to undertake an IT office move. Relocating an entire office after all combines all of the usual stresses and issues of a house move and…
It is an unfortunate but inescapable fact of modern day business, that there are a huge variety of different cyber-security threats that you must be both aware of and protected against. One such threat that is almost ubiquitous and which you must know how to combat are so-called email ‘phishing’ scams. ‘Phishing’ is the practice…
Cyber security is in every way possible a hot button issue. Stories of cyber-attacks, data theft and other incursions have hardly been out of the news in the early part of 2016. Here at Mustard IT we are dedicated to helping companies to get the most out of their IT systems and as such to…
This week marked the ten year anniversary of when Jack Dorsey tweeted ‘Just setting up my twttr’ to launch the micro-blogging service that in the ensuing decade has become a near-ubiquitous part of modern life. Since that very first tweet, the service has grown to average around 305 million monthly active users and to be…
In the summer of 2015 there was a huge amount of fanfare surrounding the high profile launch of Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system. Technology geeks, general consumers and business owners alike were fascinated by just what the new OS had to offer and how the launch was going to go. Once the hullaballoo ended however,…
Cloud computing is becoming an ever more ubiquitous part of business life. Many firms have moved some or all of their IT infrastructure to the cloud, whilst even more still use at least one if not a number of cloud based services like Dropbox or Gmail. Whichever of those categories your company falls within therefore,…
