For mid-sized St. Louis businesses, implementing strategic IT solutions can be a challenging endeavor. Most mid-sized firms have at least one or two internal IT employees. The problem is that these employees almost certainly feel that it’s enough to deal with IT issues on a day-to-day basis. Just putting out the fires that arise each […]
A few years ago, cybersecurity was kind of a buzzword. Now it’s just a fact of life. It’s become absolutely foundational to business IT strategy, which is no surprise given that 62% of businesses report experiencing phishing attacks and hacks are attempted every 39 seconds. Cybersecurity increases productivity by minimizing occurrences of downtime. It protects […]
IT support can feel like a complicated consideration. There are constantly changing technologies to keep up on. There are multiple engagement models and varying forms of support. The end goal of IT support, though, is simple: to turn your business’s technology into an advantage. With that goal in mind, let’s take a look at two […]
High-level summary: IT support is help with the development, maintenance, and use of technology. It includes services like network monitoring, helpdesk assistance, onsite support, technology consulting, cybersecurity strategy, disaster recovery, and technology planning. IT support is most often delivered via managed services as part of a fixed retainer, or at an hourly rate, or on […]
Budgets are crucial planning tools in any area of operations. As you plan for the strategic support of your business’s IT systems, an IT budget can help you to prioritize the things that matter, delineate areas where efficiency can be improved, and turn technology into an advantage. But setting an IT budget can be complex. […]
Managed backups are an important component of IT support in general and a key in cybersecurity preparedness in particular. As a concept, backups are fairly straightforward: they’re multiple versions of the same thing so that if one version gets destroyed or compromised, there’s still an undamaged version. In IT, this idea is referred to as […]
Manufacturing companies face a unique set of IT challenges, and the ways they’re addressed have real, physical ramifications that impact business’s bottom lines. For manufacturers, IT isn’t some abstract system that enables a service. It’s the tangible architecture that makes producing products possible. While manufacturing IT issues are often straightforward to diagnose, they can be […]
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