After a decade of service, Microsoft’s Windows Server 2012 operating system is reaching its end-of-life on October 10, 2023. This means that if any of your business systems run on Windows Server 2012, you have a decision to make soon. It may seem too early to start planning for its replacement, but with hardware shortages, price volatility, and increasing lead times, now’s the time to start planning, budgeting, and figuring out what to do next.
In business, information is everything. Serving your customers would be close to impossible without your client database, financial records, documents, emails, or any of the other data that you use daily. Nearly all businesses need continuous access to that data to keep their doors open and their operations running smoothly.
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Technology Planning | Business Planning
2021 brought some form of normalcy back to the Southern California business climate and, if you’re like many business leaders, you’re happy to turn the calendar to 2022 with the hope that forward progress continues. Whatever your business goals look like for the new year, they’ll need to be supported by a solid business technology plan.
Cyber Security | CMMC Compliance
The word “Maturity” is part of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification for a reason. Essentially, the Department of Defense wants their chain of suppliers to “grow up” in their security. When companies act like “grown-ups” in the way that they manage cyber risk, they’re a lot more serious about their responsibilities and they’re accountable for the outcome.
Backup & Disaster Recovery | Remote Work | Data Security
You may not always think of it this way, but your business information is a valuable asset. Without your data, business operations would come to a screeching halt or at least a slow crawl. Like any other asset, your business data needs to be protected. Unfortunately, many companies unknowingly compromised the integrity of their data when they sent people home to work. What’s more, they don’t realize how spreading out their people to their individual remote locations may have affected their data backup strategy.
Do you have employees working from home? Congratulations! You’re now a multi-location business! As a multi-location business, your IT network is a lot more complex than it used to be when everyone was working under the same roof. You have more to think about in terms of security and productivity, which includes making sure that your data is 100% visible to IT. If your data isn’t visible, what is it? Invisible? Let’s call it out-of-sight. Before we talk about how this happens, let’s explore why you should be concerned about out-of-sight data.
Whether by accident or pre-planning, you know that backups are necessary. If you don't have a backup, stop right now and read about data backup and storage options for businesses - but make sure you come back and read this once you are done. Today, we're going to talk about disaster recovery. It’s vital to understand that backups and disaster recovery are not the same.
