IT downtime | What causes it and how to prevent it

What happens if your business productivity comes to a grinding halt?

For every hour of downtime, your company loses money and, sometimes, its reputation.

How would you minimize the downtime to come back online? How could you prevent this from happening in the future?

Fortunately, there are ways to prevent downtime, lost revenue, and damaged reputations.

Backup and Recovery Systems | What they are, and why you need one

What would you do if you turned off your computer and all your files were gone? What would you do if none of the programs worked or had also vanished?

This is stressful on a personal computer, but what if this happened on your work laptop? Or for your office?

Would you have to start from scratch? Or would you have copies of the data saved and ready to reinstall?

Backup and recovery systems safely store data from a designated timeframe in case data is erased or compromised.

CIS and NIST | How frameworks affect cybersecurity

Cybercrime is a growing industry. Every 39 seconds, there’s a new cyberattack somewhere on the web. These aren’t just targeted attacks at major industries and name brands. If you’re connected to the internet, you’re a potential target.

So, what can you do to protect your company data from cybercriminals?

In the last ten years, both cybercrime and cybersecurity have changed drastically.

Is your IT partnership effective?

IT providers often describe their relationships with their clients as “partnerships.” But how do you know if your IT partnership is helping your business? Is it saving you money, time, and frustration?

Or is your partnership increasing your stress and draining your budget dry?

A good partnership will not only save you frustration, but, in the long run, it can help save money and protect your business from ill-fitting IT investments by using a customized IT strategy.

What is an incident response plan, and do you need one?

When IT systems fail, companies lose profits until systems come back online. If data backups aren’t set up or fail, data vanishes, deleting hours, days, or even years of work and information.

So, what can organizations do to minimize downtime and protect data in a crisis?

Your company’s internal IT department or IT provider can help you create an incident response plan.

Technology “End of Life” and “End of Support” | What it means and why it matters

Have you ever received a warning or notice that your computer operating system was reaching End of Life? Or that a software program you use would be at the End of Support soon? What do these phrases mean, and how do they affect your business?

End of Life and End of Support for technology means that it is no longer supported by the makers of these products.