Regardless of your industry or size, businesses are falling victim to cyber attacks at an alarming rate. Although small businesses have been found to be at greater risk, none of us are safe. With important assets and the company’s reputation on the line, establishing protection from cyber attacks is something businesses can no longer push […]
Why Local-Only or Cloud-Only Backups are Risky Business
When it comes to protecting and managing your data (and your business), it’s important to think in terms of business continuity — not just data backups. It’s true, however, that data backups are a necessary aspect of protecting your business’s data — it’s how and where you back it up that matters. Understanding Business Continuity […]
Technology Considerations for an Office Move
Whether your business is moving to a new location or you’ve outgrown your current office space, a bad location or an increasingly cramped office space is never ideal. Moving to a new (better) location or simply a larger office space can often do wonders for the growth of a business, but there’s still a lot […]
Healthcare IT Solutions
Technology is a crucial element of the healthcare industry, but this fact goes much deeper than the technology of machines and communication — it also applies to maintaining business continuity and protecting the data that allows daily functions to remain continuous and smooth, should downtime occur. From patient information in a hospital, all the way […]
Big Data in Healthcare
Over the past few years, multiple healthcare experts have been heralding the role big data will come to play in healthcare. With the press for EHR/EMR protocols, healthcare organizations have been digitizing more data than ever before. This massive data collection ultimately will help improve healthcare delivery in quality of care, hospital safety, refining cost […]
Extending Your Data Center into the Cloud
Computerworld ran a thoughtful article about several organizations that have moved some and/or most of their applications into the cloud.[1] These groups have enjoyed tremendous savings, reduced internal workloads, and enjoyed faster deployments. As any company considers expanding to the web, it is important to process the opportunities and challenges associated with such a move. […]
Planning for Disasters
How prepared is your business for a hurricane, flooding, power outages, a tornado? According to The Institute for Business & Home Safety an estimated 25% of business never reopen after a major disaster. Those who do reopen may still face such surmounting obstacles that they end up closing. 75% of the companies who fail to […]