3 Main Benefits of Cloud Services for Small Business

Cloud services are ideal for small businesses because they provide a tremendous range of business solutions without a huge capital expenditure. The Cloud allows small businesses the ability to move faster, be more agile, and stay competitive in today’s digital world.  Businesses of all shapes and sizes are quickly shifting to the Cloud. Cloud services…

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Managed IT Support for Microsoft and Azure

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Microsoft has made it easier than ever for businesses to collaborate between employees, teams, and clients, manage documents, share files, manage projects, video conference and more. What you can do with Microsoft far exceeds the Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Outlook that you’re probably used to – even if you only scratch the surface of their…

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Top Cybersecurity Threats for 2023

Top Cybersecurity Threats for 2023

This New Year predicts some “oldies but baddies” that we all still need to watch for, along with some newer, more evolved, and dare we say, more efficient schemes. As if Covid, the economy, and inflation have not made things difficult enough for small businesses, cybercriminals are now specifically preying on businesses that have become…

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Why Cybersecurity is Essential for Small & Medium Business

Why Cybersecurity is Essential for Small & Medium Business

What is a Cybersecurity Breach? In simplest terms, a cybersecurity breach is any unauthorized access to your computer systems. That can be as simple as an employee innocently accessing sensitive files that should have been password protected all the way up to a criminal shutdown of your entire network and theft of all your data.…

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Why SMBs Should Outsource IT

Why SMBs Should Outsource IT

If you’re a small to medium business, especially one that’s growing, you may be struggling with managing your computer network. Most companies start out managing it with the most tech-savvy person on staff, and later hiring someone specifically for that purpose. Considering how much your business depends on its servers, workstations, and network security, outsourcing your IT…

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If it Doesn’t Bring Value – Why Hold onto It?

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Inspiration for ridding your business of things that hold it back. We’re all closing in on the end of another year, and business may not have been as good as you planned, or hopefully it’s starting to get better. In this economy, it doesn’t make sense to hold onto processes, systems, or services that are…

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What the Right Managed Services Provider Can Do for Your Small Business

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If your small business uses a Managed Services Provider instead of having one of your tech-savvy employees handle it – you’re on the right track. The IT technology that’s designed to make operations and workflows more efficient can ironically become a time-sucking burden when something goes wrong. A sluggish network, outages, glitches, forgetting to do the updates,…

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Cloud Managed Services Means Never Paying for Hardware or Software Again

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The systems you use to run your business – phones, desktops, servers, file sharing and more represent capital expenditures that you know will become outdated or obsolete in the near future. More advanced hardware or software will come to market that will create a financial and operations conundrum – the newer technology is clearly better…

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A Good Definition of IT Managed Services 

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According to Wikipedia the meaning of Managed Services is “… the practice of outsourcing the responsibility for maintaining, and anticipating need for, a range of processes and functions, ostensibly for the purpose of improved operations and reduced budgetary expenditures through the reduction of directly-employed staff.  We bolded the type on “ostensibly” because the brash honesty made us chuckle. Yes,…

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