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April 2018: Some small businesses aren’t seeing the trickle-down benefits of always-updating cloud platforms. When they sign up for the platforms, it seems like a great way to take advantage of the subscription model to streamline and save some money. But using platforms that constantly update means your organization must constantly upgrade as well. Here’s …
If there’s a disaster at your headquarters or in your neighborhood, who, exactly, will execute your Disaster Recovery (DR) plan? Which employees will stay behind and how will they manage their responsibilities if safety is an issue or if their families need them? People come first, of course. None of this is pleasant to think …
Nasty, lazy cybercriminals have found one of the best ways ever to free you from your money — ransomware. For them, it’s like pennies from heaven. They can spread ransomware with very little effort and then sit back and watch the money roll in from victims who want their data back. This post is a …
April 2018: (Updated from October 2016): If there’s something strange going on with your cloud platform, who you gonna call? Part of choosing a platform is knowing what kind of end-user tech support to expect if you run into trouble. Just because an app is popular doesn’t mean you’ll get great support. Often it’s popular …
One major IT lesson so far from this season’s back-to-back hurricanes is the importance of having out-of-region help when it comes to disaster recovery (DR). When faced with a physical crisis — one that requires staff to evacuate or threatens your location — there may be no time for IT to make sure failover to …
Your organization’s technology team needs to deliver consistent, verifiable results so your business can say yes to new opportunities. Yet growing companies can struggle with aligning IT operations and business objectives because they’re so busy doing other work. In this second installment of our series on IT and business goal alignment, we look at why …
(UPDATED) March 2018: First it was servers, then it was desktops and now it’s apps — virtualization has become the new normal in business. Virtualized apps run in their own environments on any computer regardless of the computer’s operating system. The operating system doesn’t matter anymore. What matters is your team gets to use whatever …
March 2018: Did you know there are now 1,519 different cryptocurrencies in use (Bitcoin was the first) and that proliferation can negatively impact your IT network? For cryptocurrencies to work, they need computing power. Cryptography is the foundation of cryptocurrencies (hence the “crypto”) and it involves complex mathematical equations that are solved by using computing …
Organizations are lining up to switch to Disaster Recovery as a Solution (DRaaS) — but why now? After more than a decade of cloud-based disaster recovery (DR) availability, what is it about today’s DRaaS that’s making it so appealing, even to enterprises? It’s all about the software. And cost-effectiveness. And rerouting ease. And security, to …
The days of paying for an internet-connected device only once — when you first buy it — are disappearing. To receive the firmware and security updates a device needs to function as designed, you’ll soon need to pay extra if you aren’t already. Manufacturers are now passing along the costs of developing and distributing updates …
