Lordy, Lordy, Look Who’s Forty: A Trip Back to 1986 Dial back 40 years to 1986 and compare it to 2026. Discover how far business technology has come—from floppy disks and MS-DOS to AI and the cloud. The Desktop In 1986, the personal computer was finally making headway inside of [...]
Make Reporting Easier with Visual Dashboards If you’re tired of manual reporting, you can try automated data dashboards to stop chasing down data and start using it to run a more effective business. Here are three steps to do so. Identify the Most Important Metrics That Drive Growth Have you [...]
Your Biggest Security Gap Is Human Nature By giving your team permission to pause, you transform your staff from your greatest vulnerability into your strongest line of defense. Here are three ways this simple habit changes your security posture. Neutralizing Manufactured Urgency Phishing thrives on panic. Subject lines like Urgent: [...]
As the Boss, are You Also the Go-To IT Expert? We Can Fix That Let’s face it: you’re the leader. Your time is valuable… too valuable to be spent dealing with every little issue that pops up. Your opportunity loss—the potential you sacrifice each time you work on things other [...]
5 Ways to Seize More Tech Savings Thankfully, it’s not as difficult as it sounds, especially if your business suffers from any of the above-mentioned problems. Here are five ways to get your IT spending back on track. Audit Your Subscriptions First, reconsider the tools your business pays for, but [...]
The 5 Critical Components of Your Business Continuity Plan There are five pieces of a successful business continuity strategy, and we’re covering all of them today. Business Impact Analysis This is your foundational starting point. The first step is to figure out what your priorities are and the impacts of [...]
Don’t Let the Gingerbread House That Is Your Data Backup Crumble Let’s review the principles of the 3-2-1 Backup Rule and how you can use it to create a more reliable, disaster-proof data backup solution that stands the test of time. What Makes for a Reliable Backup Turns out, the [...]
Why Modern IT Management Needs a Conductor, Not Just a Technician Too often, business owners view IT as a necessary evil; a collection of complex, expensive tools that occasionally break and need fixing. They see the IT staff as a group of highly skilled, yet disconnected, instrumentalists: the networking trombone [...]
Your People Are Your Company’s Biggest Cyber Threat (and Best Defense) That “chirping” sound? It’s your IT system warning you of a problem. Learn why ignoring “small” tech warnings is putting your business on the road to disaster. Hackers Know Who to Target Hackers aren’t stupid. They know it’s a [...]
How to Get C-Suite Tech Strategy for Half the Cost Stop overpaying for C-Suite tech strategy. Learn how a Virtual CIO gives your SMB expert strategic planning for a fraction of the cost. Normally, this problem would be addressed by a Chief Information Officer, or CIO, but SMBs struggle enough [...]