Optimal Insights

Plain-English answers to your questions about technology best practices.

How Much Does Disaster Recovery Cost?

So you have a solid backup and disaster recovery solution in place. You’re investing over $1,000 each month in this service, you’ve tested it, and you’re confident that your business would recover quickly and seamlessly in the event of a catastrophe. But if a disaster really were to strike… how

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Is Data Safe in the Cloud?

There’s a very real separation anxiety that comes with surrendering your network to an outside provider; putting the fate of your data in someone else’s hands is, quite simply, a frightening concept. In fact, this is such a common occurrence that we’ve crafted our cloud migration process specifically to alleviate

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Key Elements of an Employee Separation Policy

  Whether the separation is amicable, hostile, or indifferent, letting an employee go is never an easy process—as the COO of our outsourced IT firm, I know this all too well. Besides any emotional burden, there is also a lot for the employer to take care of on the tactical

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How to Evaluate an Outsourced IT Team

Recently, we published a piece on how to evaluate an internal IT team. Here, we discussed how to assess your employees based on their customer service skills, system uptime, communication skills, and organization and time management. When it comes to outsourced IT teams, though, the story changes a bit. For

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