No matter how advanced technology gets, the unfortunate fact of the matter is that it won’t last forever. Your staff’s machines will begin to show signs of slowness after about 3 years. After 5, you’ll be lucky if they’re running anywhere close to full capacity. Your servers will start generating
Here’s an unsettling statistic for you: according to The Ponemon Institute’s 2014 Global Report on the Cost of Cybercrime, 2014 cybercrime incidences increased by 10.4% over 2013 numbers. Another from IBM: after a breach, an organization loses, on average, 29% of market mindshare due to reputation and brand damage, 21%
Where C-level executives are concerned, “CIO” is one of the newcomers in the game; not many associations were concerned about aligning their overall strategy with their technology resources back in the seventies. But as organizations become more and more dependent upon their technology, as data security and integrity becomes more
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
Your server goes down. It doesn’t matter why—all that matters is that your network is down, and you and your 40 staff members need to get back up and running. With your current backup solution, it takes three days to get that server rebuilt and operational. In that time you’ve
Outsourced IT, or managed IT services, means placing some or all of your information systems in the hands of an outside technology consulting firm (or Managed Service Provider). In many cases, associations will outsource when they simply don’t want to handle their IT needs in-house, or if they need a
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