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A Second Look at your Hybrid Workforce

By Chris Higgins | Nov 29, 2021

In the last two years, companies worldwide have transitioned from a traditional office setup towards a hybrid workforce model as a part of a solution to the pandemic situation. While many employees are going back to the office, physical capacity…

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Upgrade your Business with 179 Tax Deductions

By Chris Higgins | Nov 16, 2021

If your company is upgrading computer software or hardware, now might be the right time to save lots of money for your business. Lots of small and medium-sized business owners will be familiar with some of the available tax deductions.…

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Section 179 Deductions That Business Owners Can Use

By Chris Higgins | Nov 3, 2021

When you’re a small business, it’s critical to get your taxes right. Many small business owners look for ways to maximize deductions to minimize how much tax they pay. One tax-saving loophole not everyone knows about that could help is…

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Who Should Handle Your IT?

By Chris Higgins | Oct 13, 2021

In our evolving COVID-19 world, we’ve had to re-learn the way we act and think. What worked for our businesses in the past might no longer help us in the future. The pandemic caused a seismic shift for many small…

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Don’t Rely on Your Cloud Provider for Disaster Recovery

By Chris Higgins | Jul 14, 2020

It surprises some to hear this, but cloud doesn’t come with disaster recovery built in. Creating and implementing a disaster recovery strategy for your cloud infrastructure is your responsibility.

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Summer Storms Shouldn’t Take Down Your Servers

By Chris Higgins | Jun 15, 2020

Summer means power outages. That can mean a data center outage; but it shouldn’t. All businesses should have appropriate disaster recovery plans to keep them functioning through power outages and other incidents that take down systems.

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Choosing the Right Offsite Location for Backups

Choosing the Right Offsite Location for Backups

By Chris Higgins | May 14, 2020

It’s well-known that one of the best strategies for backups is to follow the 3-2-1 rule: have a least three copies of data, use two different storage media, and keep one copy offsite. When it comes to deciding where to keep the offsite copy, cloud is an obvious choice today. However, cloud isn’t the only choice.

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How Many Purposes Are Your Backups Supporting?

By Chris Higgins | Apr 14, 2020

Backups need to serve multiple purposes and meet multiple requirements. Businesses that are still creating their backups the same way they always did should review their strategy to make sure it meets today’s backup requirements.

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7 Critical Factors to Consider When Developing Your Backup Strategy

By Chris Higgins | Mar 3, 2020

Creating a backup strategy requires identifying key backup concerns and selecting appropriate backup technologies. When you start thinking about your backup strategy, keep these considerations in mind.

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Don’t Let Ransomware Destroy the Backups You Need to Recover from Ransomware

By Chris Higgins | Feb 17, 2020

Backups are the primary means a business can use to recover from a ransomware attack. It’s no wonder, then, that many forms of ransomware now attempt to destroy any backup files they encounter. Protecting your backups against ransomware is an important part of your defensive strategy.

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