Partnering with a managed service provider (MSP) is one new approach being used by many companies like yours. Experienced MSPs have access to newer tools that reduce costs by automating many routine in-house labor intensive processes. Break-fix is labor intensive, and labor is one of the most expensive operating costs within your IT infrastructure. The […]
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Keeping everything up and running on a minimal IT budget We talked in an earlier blog about how not benefiting from economies of scale can hurt a small practice’s abilities to take full advantage of technology. In addition to the cloud, another resource to get around these problems is the the outsourcing of certain […]
Did you know that 50% of small business owners think their businesses are too small to be targeted by the thieves of the virtual world? Contrary to popular belief, 72% of hacker attacks often happen to smaller firms – firms with less than 100 employees! So how prepared is your SMB? Here’s a checklist to […]
Hardware costs are barriers to growth and stability Unless you are a Silicon Valley unicorn, small and medium size businesses and practices, especially newer ones, usually face serious limitations to accessing the funds to finance significant CapEx investments. This can be a particular problem with the IT hardware necessary for the growth of the […]
Research has revealed that over half of all users end up opening fraudulent emails and often even fall for them. Phishing is done with the aim of gathering personal information about you, generally related to your finances. The most common reason for the large number of people falling for fraudulent emails is that the phishing […]
How economies of scale make it hard for small practices to compete Small and start up operations suffer from the problem of “economies of scale,” making it hard for them to compete with larger firms. This is especially true in the area of IT infrastructure. Small practices need, but generally cannot afford, a completely […]
Ransomware and disaster recovery plans Disaster recovery is a basic element of good continuity planning. Business continuity planning–in the case of schools, the better term might be organisational continuity planning– refers to the broad range of plans created so that a institution can continue to be operational no matter what negative event might occur. […]
Many SMB owners think IT downtime only costs them a few productive hours, but there’s a lot more at stake when your systems go down. Customer satisfaction and loss of brand integrity are just two of the key losses apart from the more evident costs such as lost productivity and a temporary dip in […]
How to avoid falling victim to ransomware We hear routinely in the news that a major corporation or government agency has had its data integrity compromised, with millions of pieces of personal data accessed. In these cases the criminals behind the attack hope to get money by selling that data to other criminals. In […]
When is a HIPAA breach not a HIPAA breach? In recent blogs we have been discussing the definition of a HIPAA data breach, and reviewed the notification requirements under the law. But we haven’t discussed the exceptions to the breach portion of the law, known as the Breach Notification law. There are a few select […]