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4 Steps to Get Office Automation ‘Right the First Time’

Office automation uses software and hardware solutions to ease your workload. At its simplest, office automation may involve filtering your email inbox into organized folders. However, as your business expands, the number and scale of tasks needed to keep the business running increase exponentially. Soon enough, you and your employees will find yourselves relying on the automation of your information […]

5 Surprising Business Benefits of Managed IT Support

Whether lacking the funds or the manpower, small businesses often fall back on outsourcing their IT support to a preoccupied employee, under-qualified IT contractor working on the cheap-end, or neglect the management of their technology altogether. That’s why managed IT support is a popular choice among companies who are largely unable to maintain their own IT staff. Managed IT support […]

How Do I Choose The Perfect File-sharing Service For My Business?

In recent years, cloud file-sharing services have proliferated among businesses and consumers, alike. And while the popularity of file-sharing and cloud-computing and storage has driven competitive advancement, with a booming market comes the difficulty of narrowing down your options and making a singular choice. For instance, in service of enterprises alone, the heavy-weight contenders among file-sharing services are Box, Citrix’s […]

Do I Need To Choose Between Cloud Storage Services and Hardware Virtualization?

The simple answer is no. Cloud storage services and hardware virtualization tools, while similar in function, aren’t in competition with one another, at all. A comparable question would be: do I need to choose between sunlight and solar power? They both provide different types of energy, but sunlight doesn’t need to be harnessed in the form of solar power in […]

Understanding the Internet of Things: How Will It Impact My Small Business?

The Internet of Things is a growing network of connected smart devices all of which communicate with one another and, all of which can be accessed via the Internet. Today, your fitness tracker and your smartphone are plugged into the Internet of Things, but those are only two tiny, little consumer-facing products. In fact, the Internet of Things has been […]

4 Ways Remote Monitoring and Management Can Improve Your Business Productivity

We all rely on our computers to get work done. In a way, our performance at work is contingent on the performance of the equipment we deploy to conduct that work. That’s where remote monitoring and management (RMM) systems come into play, improving business productivity by providing continual, remote support to customers in need of the assurance that their IT […]

Can a Data Archiving System Solve Your Data Backup Anxiety?

Simply put: yes, a data archiving system effectively reapportions no-longer-active data to a separate device for long-term protection, retention, and easy access. However, data archiving is not the same as data backup. Why is that? Here’s the spiel. The purpose of a data backup is to provide recent copies of your active files in the event of a disaster or […]

Does My Business Need a Secure Firewall?

Only the most cynical of people truly believes that we can trust no one and that is, of course, untrue. However, with several billion Internet users with just a click-of-a-mouse away from your wireless business network, odds are extremely high that someone, when given the chance, would try to bypass your firewall network security and take advantage of your business. […]

Should I Buy or Lease My Company Computer Equipment?

When you plan to upgrade or replace your company computer equipment, there are two ways to do it. You can either buy the necessary company computer equipment, or you can invest in a computer equipment lease. There is no hard and fast rule as to which alternative is better, as it heavily depends on the unique situation and needs of […]