Unlike birds, small- and medium-sized businesses rarely know -- if ever -- exactly when a migration should occur. Often, business owners question the benefits and importance of migrating from Exchange to Office 365, and because of the back-and-forth, no progress is made.
For poker players, stacks refer to piles of chips. Unfortunately for business owners, stacks don’t have the same leisurely connotation. Technology or solution stacks are sets of software components that compose a logically complete platform for running a service or supporting an application.
Mother Nature is known for her unparalleled beauty but feared for her unforgiving wrath. But what does this have to do with business? You might not see a direct correlation, but imagine one day you arrived at the office and found nothing but the scattered remnants of all the time, money and energy you invested into building your organization -- all because a hurricane hit your area.
Contrary to popular belief, medieval castles weren’t easy to penetrate. This was because the structures were designed to be as defensive as possible, ensuring that every element would work together to hold out against sieges. Massive curtain walls, treacherous moats, and spectacular towers offering strategic vantage points were just some of the mechanisms used back in the day.
According to a TechTarget survey, approximately 77 percent of surveyed companies have a disaster recovery (DR) plan. A disaster recovery plan outlines the steps an organization has to take to recover access to their software, data, and/or hardware to resume normal, critical business functions in the event of a natural or man-made disaster.
Mediocrity is the last thing you want for your IT resources, you also wouldn’t want half-baked support and staggering bills. When all of that comes together, business owners are faced with a difficult choice: continuing with in-house IT staff or investing in managed IT services.
Smaller armies that are about to go up against larger foes rely on the right formation and more importantly, the right equipment. The same goes for small businesses today; there might not be literal wars, but there’s definitely a battle going on -- one for success.
Technology planning is defined as the process of planning the technical growth of a particular program or business to achieve certain business requirements. This includes evaluating your current assets, determining a replacement cycle for for those assets and figuring a budget for those replacement assets.
Whatever trouble police officers find themselves in, they can count on their backup to help them push through. The same can be said about most businesses, but not all of them. According to Gartner, only 35% of small- and medium-sized businesses are confident with their backup and disaster recovery plans.
IT has become a vital part of daily business operations. Businesses rely on them to communicate with clients, maintain financial orders, and store important data. This means that business owners shouldn’t overlook the importance of business technology planning.
