Blog Posts In Category: IT Strategy

When your legitimate business emails end up in customers’ spam folders, you suddenly face communication barriers that can damage client relationships and hurt your bottom line. About 20% of real emails get filtered as spam, which means missed opportunities and frustrated customers who never see important messages about services, invoices, or project updates. To prevent…

Small businesses have to make a tough call on when to bring in professional IT support. That decision can shape how smoothly things run. A small business should hire an IT support provider when technology problems start causing frequent downtime, security risks become hard to manage, or employees spend more time fixing tech issues than…

Remote work isn’t going anywhere, and with more people logging in from home, secure network access has become a major priority for businesses. To set up a VPN for remote employees, choose the right VPN solution for your business (remote access, cloud-based, or SD-WAN), deploy a secure VPN server, configure strong authentication (like multi-factor authentication),…

Small businesses deal with constant cybersecurity threats, so network protection really isn’t optional anymore. Most small businesses need both a firewall and a VPN to protect against cybersecurity threats. A firewall filters incoming and outgoing network traffic, blocking unauthorized access to your business systems. A VPN (virtual private network) encrypts your company’s data as it…

The countdown is on: Windows 10 will reach its end of life on October 14, 2025. For businesses relying on this operating system, it’s critical to understand what this transition means and how to prepare. In this article, we’ll explain why the end of support for Windows 10 matters, the risks of sticking with outdated…

Believe it or not, this article is not written by Artificial Intelligence (AI), there is currently an explosion of content being generated by Large Language Models (LLMs) with ChatGPT being one of the most popular being trained on vasts amount of data in an attempt to return expert data in any domain. I personally have…

Many SMBs that start with a single in-house IT professional or small IT team that is only available at certain times eventually outgrow the capacity of limited IT service. Increasing your coverage to having at least one IT support professional available 24/7 can have exponential results. If you are among the approximately 76 percent of business owners who do…

At a time when data is king, an astonishing 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are generated each day. This underscores the critical need for efficient file management and sharing systems. Amid this flood of digital information, businesses of every scale are on a quest for solutions that not only accommodate their growing data needs but also…

Every part of your IT system has a limited lifespan: a period of time during which it is genuinely useful and beneficial to your company. If you fail to keep up with the lifecycle of your hardware, you may quickly find that your equipment stops working as effectively as you might have hoped, creating a…