Microsoft stopped supporting Office 2010 late last year. Many businesses have a hard time keeping up with patches and upgrades during the best of times, so it’s understandable if you haven’t yet addressed this. But the end of support should be handled as soon as...
Every desk in a business has a computer on it. Desktop support services are vital to keeping the devices and the business functioning properly. What should you expect if you engage a desktop services provider? Standardization. While BYOD mobile policies allow...
The estimates of the cost of downtime keep getting higher. In one study, almost all respondents said the cost was more than $150,000, and a significant percentage estimated the cost at more than $1,000,000. How much does an hour of downtime cost your business? You...
Using mobile devices for business is no longer unusual or reserved for special situations; it’s standard operating procedure. With that change in status should come a change in how you handle security for these devices. While mobile devices have a few characteristics...
Your disaster recovery plan depends on backups, so it’s important to make sure your backup process works. Don’t let these backup problems cause your disaster recovery strategy to fail: Problem: corrupted backup. Backups can be corrupt for several reasons. Old media...