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The reactive method of managing business technology means waiting for something to explode before you address it. When a computer fails or the network completely bites the dust, a business owner contacts a technician to fix the damage, which usually results in an unpredictable invoice.

This system results in a backwards relationship between your business and your tech ...

Today's cyberthreats are understandably terrifying to consider… enough so that it may seem best to lock down your network to the point where someone would need an authentication code to open every window.

Here’s the problem: If you make your security framework so restrictive that your employees feel like they are being micromanaged by an algorithm, two things happen. F...

A lot of IT consultants love to drop big, scary global statistics to convince business owners to take backup and disaster recovery seriously. They will wave a report in your face claiming that the average corporate network outage costs $5,600 per minute.

Of course, if you run a local business with 15 or 30 employees, a global enterprise statistic doesn't mean a thing t...

I was talking to a business owner the other day, let's say his name’s Bob. Bob was complaining to me that his team's productivity felt sluggish, and he couldn't shake the feeling that remote work was the culprit. I asked him to walk me through how his team actually accesses their files when they're working from home.

It turns out, Bob is still using the exact same setu...

For decades, Google was synonymous with online search, so much so that it became the accepted verb for that very activity. Today's search engine optimization practices are, for the most part, intended to rank you higher on Google’s results page, simply because it holds such a high market share amongst search engines.

The advent of AI has changed things. Your results pa...