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.

Small Business IT network monitoring is a core activity needed to ensure uptime and productivity.  What follows is 4 reasons to do it remotely? 

Small business owners and leaders often ask why their company needs managed service provider solutions if they already have an IT staff? 

Organizations may utilize IT services for small business in many ways, including break-fix, selective managed services and fully outsourced. 

In the end, it is customers that create IT solutions for small business. That said, outside providers need to offer the building blocks of products and services that together providers and customers knit together as solutions. This distinction is important because it is not generally the case that one can just purchase products and services, drop them in and expect that business outcomes will change dramatically without active involvement. Like anything, what one puts into something one gets out.  Let's take the example of something transformative like virtualization.  This is a word that many small business owners do not understand; but it is a solution that requires their involvement in order to overcome the problems - excess power consumption and cooling, lengthy disaster recovery, burdensome management - that it addresses. 

Owners considering computer services for small businesses have a wide variety from which to choose.  As mentioned in 6 Top Considerations for Small Business IT Implementation, proactivity is a more economical state.  Here are 6 steps to help you get there:

Owners of small and medium businesses are in a squeeze.  On one hand they need to find a niche to be able to be competitive with limited resources.  On the other, operating in this niche today usually requires more IT resources than they have.  So, how does a small business owner complement IT staff (if there is staff at all)?  Here are 5 ideas: