We’ve talked a lot about IT downtime on our blog lately. If you aren’t familiar with what IT downtime is, it’s the term for what happens when your business’ functions are interrupted by computer crashes, downed networks, data loss, or any other IT-related hinderance. IT downtime can be costly and damaging for your business — […]
3 Ways to Speed Up Your PC Running on Windows 10
Gone are the days of waiting for a connection to dial-up internet and web pages taking 5 minutes to load. We’ve become so used to instant results when it comes to our technology that even the slightest delay can leave us frustrated and feeling unproductive. Not to mention, the rise in technology speeds has led […]
Data Encryption Part 2: What Should Your Company Encrypt?
If you’ve been following our recent data encryption series, you know that protecting against cyber attacks is incredibly important. In our last post, we went over exactly what data encryption is, the types of data encryption methods, and how data encryption benefits organizations of all kinds. Next, it’s important to understand the type of data […]
Infographic: Business Continuity Solutions Help Protect Your Business or Nonprofit from Downtime
Business continuity solutions are beneficial — vital even — because they do just what they sound like: they help maintain your business’s or nonprofit’s vital data and tech functions, even in the face of downtime or some other disaster (like these 11 types of downtime). Downtime can wreak havoc on a business; during downtime, all […]
Data Encryption Part 1: Should Your Business Use Data Encryption?
Protecting your organization’s data is incredibly important to keep things running smoothly. Recent cyber attacks from Uber to Equifax exemplify just how much grief a security breach can cause, so finding a way to protect all your business’s information is essential to the business’s success. While it might sound complicated and convoluted to those well-versed […]
The 11 Leading Causes of Downtime
We’ve talked a lot about what downtime is and how it can affect a business — if you aren’t caught up, read our blogs “Why a Business Continuity Plan is More Than Just Data Backups” and “Downtime: How Much It Could Cost Your Business” — but we still need to talk about what causes downtime. […]