Hey there, tech enthusiasts, get ready to be impressed by Curious Tech! Summer is still here, you can use a few of those items. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Anti-flies fan BBQ season is still here! Annoyed by flies checking...
Across the board, our clients get spyware/malware infections. Not on a daily basis, but often enough to cause quite a bit of disruption. We are asked why these infections are happening even with up to date virus and spyware protection - shouldn't the infections be...
Waident Technology Solutions, headquartered in Naperville, a technology support and cybersecurity company, is excited to announce "Givemas"—an initiative dedicated to giving back to the Naperville area community. Waident is thrilled to partner with local charities and...
Take your Cybersecurity more seriously now with COVID-19 With the COVID-19 pandemic upon us, life is disrupted, different, and often nothing like what you would have ever expected. Before the pandemic, the decisions you would make with IT and cybersecurity were deemed...
You remember that moment in the classic movie The Wizard of Oz when Toto pulls back the curtain on the blustery man behind “the great and powerful Oz”? The moment when you think, really, he’s not so scary after all? Like the Wizard, too often IT companies fuel, rather...
Here are my favorite items from the recent Consumer Electronic Show (CES), where tech giants and innovators introduce new technology: Â Peddle-powered bike desk You gotta peddle to charge the battery or no power for your laptop...
Two of the simplest and cheapest ways to protect your company from a ransomware attack are Multifactor Authentication and a fresh backup. Here's why. Back up everything! You are not invulnerable. Catastrophicdata loss can happen to you - one worm or Trojanis...
Company leaders often think that a cyber attack will never happen to them because their company and its data are of no interest to hackers. The list of companies below shared that point of view. But not anymore because they have made the list of the biggest...
Pursuing sustainability is a noble goal and more and more environmentally conscious businesses are rising to the challenge. A common example is upgrading and then reselling old technology like routers, firewalls, and switches to others who extract more life out of...
Who is the ideal client for the Waident Service offerings? Our ideal client is a small to mid-sized business that views technology as vital to its success – an investment in future productivity, not just an expense to be avoided. We have many clients in the...
There are thousands (tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands?) of applications to use so I am always in the hunt for an exceptionaly useful one that is free. I often wonder why someone would create a good application and then give it away, but I'm not complaining or...
IT Support | Cybersecurity | Secure BackupsManufacturers Can't Afford Downtime. When IT issues slow down your systems, they slow down your entire operation. Manufacturing companies need IT that works as hard as they do—fast, reliable, and proactive. At Waident, we...
Learn how we keep your people productive, your enterprise running, and your data safe.About Waident Why we suck less—The Waident WayBecause we suck less! We do get this question way too often. The standard of service for a lot of IT providers is unfortunately pretty...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere these days. A constant stream of new stories and technology platforms all tout the benefits of AI and how it will change our lives or stories about how AI is bad and will destroy our lives. Extremes at both ends and limited...
And we’re back! John Ahlberg is featured in ChannelPro’s 3 Questions series. This series offers key insights from top MSPs, vendors, and business consultants serving the IT channel. We talked about why we look for the “weird” when hiring at Waident (and how one...
Task: Word automatically saves your files in a predefined location but many people prefer to save their files somewhere else. It gets tiresome navigating through the folders to change the save location or manually moving files every time. Boost your productivity by...
I wrote a blog article a while ago about how sh*t happens. Sh*tty things will happen no matter how hard you try to avoid them, so the important thing is how you deal with them when they become reality. Well, some cybersecurity sh*t happened recently and it was a great...
Not yet, but it is coming, and not exactly like a Blackberry. It should working like any other Windows mobile device using the Exchange server Active Sync though which ain't too bad. At least you will get pretty much real time syncing and access to your e-mail,...
Dealing with cybersecurity is on nobody’s fun list. While there are a ton of moving parts that affect nearly all aspects of your business in a thorough cybersecurity plan, it is much easier than you may think to protect your business. I know this as a business owner,...
If you are in to technology and are interested in what the future holds, this is the place to be when it comes to town September 27th to October 12th. Wired magazine sponsors a future technology event which they call NextFest. A few years ago it was held in Chicago...
AI Solutions for SMBs in Chicago and MilwaukeeWaident believes that AI helps with to-dos, so you can focus on your to-thinks After successfully implementing an enterprise-level AI solution, we’ve dramatically reduced time spent on routine tasks, being able to focus on...
These are some thoughts from John Wooden, legendary coach of 10 UCLA Bruins NCAA Championship teams, which included notable NBA Hall of Fame players, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Walton, and Gail Goodrich. “I believe in the basics: attention to, and perfection of, tiny...
Companies with Resilient IT approach technology strategically and proactively. Resilient IT reduces the frequency, severity, and duration of fiascoes. More importantly, it gives you an evergreen lens through which to make important IT decisions for the post-COVID-19...
We didn’t coin the term “resilient IT” —we just perfected it.Companies with Resilient IT approach technology strategically and proactively. Resilient IT reduces the frequency, severity, and duration of fiascoes. More importantly, it gives you an evergreen lens...
I just read the Chicago Tribune article "Coffee shops take different approaches with laptop squatters" and it raised some interesting points and got me thinking. Does it makes sense for the business to offer free wifi and power to all of their customers? Not too long...
