Backup vs. Disaster Recovery: What’s the Difference and Why You Need Both In today’s digital-first world, businesses rely on information networks to drive operations, making data protection nonnegotiable. According to the IBM Cost of a Data Breach 2024 report, downtime costs U.S. companies an estimated $1.7 trillion annually, with 60 percent of small businesses failing…
Cloud Security: Protecting Your Business in the Digital Age In the digital era, cloud computing has revolutionized business operations, enabling scalability and remote access. But if you’re storing data off-site, you need to be sure you can trust your cloud’s security. In 2023, about 80 percent of companies reported a serious cloud security issue. Data…
Navigating the Cloud: Cost-Effective Solutions for Small Business Growth First rule of cloud computing: It’s not really a cloud What’s in a name? Well, for “cloud computing,” the answer is confusion. Consumers might know that “the cloud” is what enables them to stream videos without downloading them. But ask them what the cloud is, and…
Navigating the Cloud: A Beginner’s Guide for Small Businesses If you’re a small business owner, you’re probably used to doing just about everything for yourself. You might be operating on a thin margin, so if it’s cheaper to burn a little midnight oil than to hire someone else, you’ll extend your workday and make sure…
Navigating Cloud Services: Choosing the Right Solutions for Your Business In the past, if you had your head in the clouds, you weren’t paying attention to business. Today, proper attention to business could mean putting everything in the cloud. Of course, by that we mean cloud computing, a euphemism for offsite access to software programs…