Technology Insights Blog

How To Reduce Business Costs Through Smarter Printing

dan.larkin@marconet.com (Dan Larkin) — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:15:00 GMT

Most businesses I work with already have a sense that they're spending too much on printing. What surprises them is how much that number actually is. On average, print costs are $725 per employee annually, which can amount to 1% to 3% of your total revenue.

The reason it’s often so high? This isn’t just a paper and ink problem. Addressing costs in a meaningful way means you need to get full visibility into where your highest costs are coming from and how you can bring them down.

This comprehensive guide covers both.

What Is Cloud-Native Security?

Glenn Sweeney — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:57:05 GMT

Most businesses didn't set out to build a cloud-native environment. They started using Microsoft 365, added a cloud-based phone system, migrated a few workloads to Azure or AWS, and gradually found themselves running a technology environment that looks very different from what they had 5 years ago. The security model protecting it, though, often hasn't kept pace with that shift — and that gap is exactly where attackers are finding their way in.

Cloud-native security is the approach to protecting environments built and run in the cloud, designed for how those environments actually work rather than how traditional networks did.

Unified Communications: How It Improves Productivity — And What It's Worth

chris.darr@marconet.com (Chris Darr) — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:00:00 GMT

Most businesses didn't choose their current communication setup. They inherited it — a phone system from one era, a video conferencing tool from the pandemic, a chat platform someone added because the old one wasn't cutting it. The result is a stack of overlapping tools that your team has learned to work around, not with.

Unified communications solutions address exactly this problem — not because they're a shiny new platform, but because the productivity gains and cost savings are measurable in ways most technology decisions aren't.

The Security Strategy AI-Powered Attacks Demand

Ben Bowman — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:00:01 GMT

The threat environment changed. Not gradually. Abruptly.

Tools like Anthropic’s Claude Mythos and the latest generation of AI-assisted exploitation capabilities have fundamentally altered the economics of attacking an organization. What once required a skilled red team working over days can now be automated, scaled, and executed in hours. These tools don't just scan for known vulnerabilities. They map your environment, identify misconfigurations, chain weaknesses together, and find attack paths that a standard security review would never surface. They operate continuously, without fatigue, at a speed no human attacker team can match.

The assumption that defenders have time has always been fragile. AI has made it obsolete.

The Top Practical Applications of IoT in Manufacturing

info@marconet.com (Marco) — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:26:54 GMT

Back in 2019, 86% of survey respondents said they believed smart factory initiatives would be the main driver of manufacturing competitiveness in the next 5 years. However, according to that same survey, only 51% were making or had made investments.

The Intelligent Factory: Leveraging IT Solutions for Manufacturing in 2026

Dustin.bonn@marconet.com (Dustin Bonn) — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:26:09 GMT

Large facilities, heat, dust, vibrations, and electromagnetic interference are hard on sophisticated electronics. Add in budget constraints, skill gaps, legacy systems, and the need for constant uptime, and it’s no wonder that many manufacturers that would love to embrace more IoT tech have gotten stuck.

How Managed IT Services for Manufacturing Are Transforming the Industry

Dustin.bonn@marconet.com (Dustin Bonn) — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:24:27 GMT

Some of the most celebrated innovation stories in American history come from the manufacturing industry. From the first assembly line to interchangeable parts, American manufacturing was the epicenter of the Second Industrial Revolution.

Data Security Governance Best Practices for 2026

Glenn Sweeney — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Data security has reached a breaking point. Sensitive information now lives in more places than ever, sprawled across SaaS applications, cloud drives, on-premises servers, and increasingly, generative AI tools that learn from whatever they're fed. Every connection creates another potential path for confidential data to escape.

Why Unified Communications Is So Important in 2026

chris.darr@marconet.com (Chris Darr) — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:30:00 GMT

If your team is juggling meetings in one app, chat in another, and calling in a third, you’re not alone. The problem isn’t that people don’t communicate — it’s that communication gets fragmented, hard to track, and harder to manage.

Unified communications (UC) solves that problem by bringing calling, messaging, meetings, and collaboration into one connected experience, so teams can work faster with fewer tool-switches. Another related abbreviation to throw at you: Unified communications as a service (UCaaS) is just UC delivered through the cloud and typically managed by a provider — meaning less infrastructure to maintain and fewer day-to-day admin headaches.

For many companies, consolidating communication is a game-changer. In this blog, I'll outline exactly why!

Top Cybersecurity Laws and Regulations To Know About in 2026

Patrick Voight — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Many companies are now facing the challenges posed by malicious hackers attacking their IT environment. Unfortunately, the fallout continues even after the attack is contained, including dealing with incidents involving data breaches.