Optimal Insights

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

How Much Should 501c3 Nonprofits Spend on IT Security?

  What would happen if cybercriminals gained access to your donor information? Your accounting software? Your event registration? While you might not necessarily expect a 501c3 organization to be appetizing to hackers, nonprofits are actually brimming with sensitive information that can be sold for a pretty penny on the black

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How Much Does Hiring a CIO Cost for Law Firms?

  Law firms cannot function without intelligent, reliable technology systems. We’ve talked about this before, whether it’s within the context of strategic consulting, backup and disaster recovery, or just plain outsourcing IT. Firms must be up and running at all times, and cannot lose (or lose track of) any data

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When to Move to Cloud Computing

As originally published in the American City Business Journals. — If I had a penny for every time a client or prospect asked me about the cloud…well, I’d be very, very wealthy. Today, the intrigue and uncertainty that once surrounded the cloud have dissipated. Everyone now knows what the cloud

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How to Compare File Sync and Share Solutions

  In a previous article, we worked through a few of the leading file sync and share solutions for business. This touched on the key elements to consider when making your selection:  data security, ease of use, cost, location of your data, and integration. When it comes to directly comparing

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How Much Does Data Backup Cost for Small Business?

If disaster were to strike your small business, would you be able to recover? Without any data backup solution in place, your answer to this question is probably going to be “no.” This leads directly into the next question: how much will it cost your business to get the level

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3/26/15 MSPmentor Selects Optimal as Top Managed Service Provider

Out of thousands of managed service providers worldwide, MSPmentor ranked the top 501. Ranking criteria included annual recurring revenue percentage growth (year over year), number of customer devices managed, devices managed percentage growth, employee headcount, and employee headcount percentage growth. Optimal Networks ranked 184. Optimal also made the MSPmentor 200 list, which ranks the top

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