Rising Above The Rubble: Taking a Hard Look at Business Continuity

Business Continuity

If business continuity and disaster recovery were people, they’d be those slightly annoying relatives always pestering you to be “better safe than sorry.” While you may get tired of hearing the same message over and over again, they are unfortunately prophetic when a disaster — sayyyy, like a data breach — decides to pay an unsolicited visit. Business continuity is … Read More

How to offset tax liabilities through shrewd IT investment

tax liabilities

As we rapidly approach Q4 (or possibly have just entered Q4 depending on when you read this), one of the foremost concerns on many small and medium-sized business owners’ minds is their fiscal year tax liabilities. No one loves paying the tax man — obviously — but if you think ahead and plan shrewdly, you can invest in critical areas … Read More

Should your company increase its marketing budget amid COVID-19?

marketing budget

The business landscape is challenging, to say the least. For some sectors, dire is the more apt descriptor. But regardless of sector, businesses the nation over are hurting. When consumer confidence and spending decline, so too do sales and profitability for all but the most insulated sectors. When hard times befall American businesses, belt tightening becomes the name of the … Read More

Has CoVid proven asynchronous video messaging is enterprise ready?

asynchronous video messaging

CoVid-19 has upended, well, pretty much everything. There’s a decade’s worth of reading on all the ways it has impacted our lives, both large and small; there will be more to come. That said, not everything it has revealed or impacted is necessarily bad — those favoring flexible working arrangements now have ample evidence it really can be done at … Read More

Why IT stability is the mother of productivity (and how to get it)

IT Stability

Labor productivity is higher than it has ever been before. This is great news for business owners as well as for retail investors, because it means the American economy is growing overall. Many things contribute to these productivity gains, from better workplace management and collaboration tools to the overarching influx of technology that simplifies tasks, automates repetition, and massively increases … Read More

Intel Announces Major Security Breach

You’ve probably seen or heard about the massive security vulnerability Intel announced last week.  This recent acknowledgement has the potential to dwarf the WannaCry attacks from 2017 when you consider the combined impact of attacks and performance loss. Intel Security Breach The vulnerability is at the heart of the processor architecture.  This issue applies to the last 20+ years of processors … Read More

The Cloud is NOT for Everyone

The cloud concept has a lot of momentum lately, but it’s not the right solution for everyone.  So what determines if the cloud is right for you?  There are a few key characteristics of your business that will push you towards a cloud implementation.  How far you go is determined by your need for those characteristics.  The important thing to … Read More

Proactive Service vs Reactive Support

When we talk with business leaders we often hear about their perception of Proactive Service vs Reactive Support.  Many business have been told that Proactive Support includes things like patch updates, anti-virus checks, computer monitoring, and so on.  While you can consider these items to be proactive in nature, doing them independently doesn’t offer much value to the end result … Read More