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When it comes to cloud computing, providers tend to harp on the idea of mind-blowing cost savings in their promotional material. In fact, this notion has saturated the IT landscape to the point where many firms will reflexively equate “cloud” with...

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...

For more security resources, visit optimalnetworks.com/security. Increasingly, organizations are viewing remote access solutions as a necessity, not an option. Whether your staff is snowed in, whether they want to get some extra work done over the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Office moves are a hassle. There’s just no way around it. Even if you're moving up to bigger and better things, the process of picking up your entire firm and placing it back down somewhere new is incredibly complex and stressful--and that's before money...

After serving the small business community in the DC Metro area for over two decades (and after being a small business for just as long), you can imagine that we've been through more than a few office moves in our day. Across the board, one thing is...

Recently, we explored the different kinds of server backup solutions that can keep your critical data protected in the event of a disaster. One of the options we explored in brief is cloud backup, or keeping a copy of your server data off-site in a cloud...