Optimal Insights

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

What Are the Problems with Outsourcing IT?

  There aren’t any! Outsourcing is perfect. Call us? …Okay, kidding. As wonderful as it would be for an outsourced IT firm to say that there isn’t a single fundamental problem with the concept of outsourcing, that of course cannot logically be true. In fact, it is outsourced IT firms

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What are the Best Ways to Prevent Malware for Law Firms?

Did you know that in Cisco Systems Inc.’s 2015 Annual Security Report, law firms were ranked as the seventh most-vulnerable industry? That’s scary, considering how heavily law firms rely on data, and how heavily their clients rely on privacy. In a previous blog, we investigated the top cybersecurity threats to law

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What are the Best Ways to Prevent Malware for Nonprofits?

  Nonprofit organizations handle volumes of sensitive data every day—from donor information to client financial records to confidential emails. It stands to reason, then, that cybercriminals are targeting nonprofits at an alarming rate—trade associations, professional associations, and 501c3 organizations alike. In a previous blog, we investigated the top cybersecurity threats to

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How Much Does a Computer Upgrade Project Cost?

  No matter how advanced, state-of-the-art, or robust your organization’s computers may be, all machines will age and eventually fail. The unfortunate reality is that computers generally have a lifespan of about 5 years—beyond this point, performance, security, and overall reliability become a very real issue (in fact, speed starts

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