In order for any small business to thrive, it needs to have an IT process that is capable of being both proactive and adaptable. Asset Management, Backup and Disaster Recovery, Proactive Process and a Security Process are some areas that can greatly reduce potential risks, lost productivity and improve return on capital investment. These are just a few examples of processes that need to be executed to generate results.

Asset Management

Tropical hurricane Irene will soon be upon us in the Northeast.  It is good to remember that if your network goes down after the storm, there is a proper sequence to getting everything up and running again.  If you are having a problem after the storm, try shutting down all equipment, include Internet access devices (Cable, DSL, Fiber, etc.), firewalls, switches, servers and PCs.  Then, follow the five steps below to restart your network safely.

An outbreak of highly intelligent apes escape from a science facility and are ravaging your town or city, vandalizing everything in sight and your place of business might be next; what do you do? Haven’t seen the Rise of the Planet of the Apes trailer yet? That’s okay, because the apes are really just a metaphor for disaster. However, to answer the original question, you would not have to do anything if you invested some of your business’s resources in a data backup system.

Why backup online when you are already backing up on site?