Imagine this: you walk into your office on a busy Monday morning, ready to tackle the week. But something’s wrong. Computers are unresponsive. Phones are silent. The internet is a ghost town. Your business has come to a grinding halt – victim of an IT outage. It’s a scenario every business owner fears. But beyond
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On July 19th, 2024, what started as a routine software update from cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike turned into a digital nightmare. The update, meant to bolster defenses, ended up causing a major malfunction that crippled an estimated 8.5 million Windows machines around the world. This incident triggered widespread chaos across various industries. Airports faced gridlock as
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Do You Have a Recovery Plan in Place? In This Issue Welcome to the June 2024 edition of our Technology Insider newsletter! It’s a sad reality that at some point, your business is likely to be hit by a cyber-attack. But if you have a plan for how you react to it, you’ll be able
What would you do if your business suffered a ransomware attack tomorrow? Do you have a contingency plan in case of a tornado, hurricane, or earthquake? The unexpected can happen anytime, and small businesses can get hit particularly hard. Small businesses are the backbone of many economies. They are critical for job creation, innovation, and
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IT support is a technical job, and some of the language used can be a bit, well… technical. We always stay away from jargon when we’re working with our clients. So here’s our jargon-free look at the 3 most important areas to discuss with your technology partner. Number One is Infrastructure. That’s your entire tech
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Backups play a critical role in any data protection strategy. However, if you are entirely dependent on your backups for disaster recovery and business continuity, unexpected backup failures can prove disastrous for your business. When backups are scheduled automatically, you risk falling victim to media failure, software issues, cyberattacks, or even a simple human error.
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As a business owner, you’re probably already aware of the threats looming over data security in today’s digital environment. The irretrievable loss of critical data could drive your business to ruins. Apart from the financial fallout directly associated with data loss, it could also damage your reputation. While backups can help your business recover after
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When you entrust your business data to a cloud-based platform, you expect it to be safe and sound. However, most cloud platforms like Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and Salesforce acknowledge their backup shortcomings and recommend having an additional backup and recovery solution for your cloud-based data. This is because cloud-based platforms often have limited data
Businesses like yours are increasingly adopting cloud-based solutions to keep up with the rapidly changing technological landscape. According to a recent study by Gartner, cloud adoption will not slow down anytime soon. Many of these organizations, however, are unaware of the critical importance of having a backup for their cloud-based data. If data is lost
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Your data is essential for your business’s success. There’s no doubt about it in the modern digitized era. However, not having a backup for your cloud-based service provider can result in the loss of this valuable data. This is where the confusion begins because you must now decide how to back up your data. There
