On World Backup Day, we look to the increasing use of cloud technology for small to medium-sized businesses (SMB) and share how to best utilize the cloud for data safekeeping.

Every industry today faces a shortage of individuals with the right skills to take on the unique and shifting challenges faced in the modern IT environment. Here are the core skills every organization will need to look for when assembling an IT team.

Small- to medium-sized businesses (SMB) face a myriad of unique challenges when juggling their IT needs. While a smaller workforce size can make these enterprises nimbler than their larger counterparts, they often lack the financial and staffing resources to navigate today’s complex IT landscape. Hence, more and more SMBs are outsourcing IT services to third-party providers when their needs outgrow the capacity to provide key services in-house.

Migrating your business data to the cloud is a smart move that reaps cost and performance benefits from enhanced flexibility, scalability and availability. However, sharing resources with other companies over an IT infrastructure that is not your own can present serious security and compliance challenges for your business. Moving to the cloud isn’t about simply […]

How modern data backups outsmart traditional storage methods and improve your business’s disaster recovery Forty percent of companies that do not have proper data backup or disaster recovery plans in place do not survive a disaster. Even if you have a traditional data backup system, your business might not be able to bounce back quickly […]

IT professionals at businesses with tech-phobic staff have devised an elegant strategy for painlessly migrating their organizations to Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP). Even though these companies’ employees understand the benefits of switching from analog phone service to VoIP—cost savings, increased mobility, etc.—some just aren’t comfortable losing their physical phones and replacing them with “softphone” capability. For […]

This insight might help explain why, according to recent research from Gartner, only about 62 percent of small and mid-sized businesses are using cloud computing today. Yes, industry experts expect those numbers to increase; an IBM study forecasts 80 percent of businesses will be using the cloud by 2020. Nevertheless, given all of cloud computing’s […]

In the past decade, IT expenses have become a necessary part of an organization’s budget. It’s nearly impossible to run a business without IT spending. Additionally, virtual environments are encouraged in today’s business climate, with the majority of companies going paperless. Ensuring you have a reliable IT network is critical, but can also be costly. […]

The cloud has brought many benefits to businesses since its inception. It supports basic storage, networking, processing power and gives you the freedom to access immense amounts of data from anywhere in the world without the added expense of having all the hardware behind it. Other benefits are scalability and the option to expand the […]