Optimal Insights

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

Top 5 IT Budgeting Pitfalls – What not to overlook

It’s not easy to build an IT budget that is both accurate and agile. Between all the different vendor contract terms, pricing structures, support expiration dates, license renewals, hardware upgrades, and infrastructure changes, it’s hard enough to not overlook a key investment – and that’s just the beginning! Over our

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Do I Need a CIO for My Law Firm?

This is going to be a short read. When it comes to whether or not your law firm needs a CIO, the greatest and most clear indicator is that you’re asking the question to begin with. After helping DC law firms navigate technology for nearly 25 years, our company has

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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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