Do your research carefully before outsourcing your internal IT services. Many companies function more efficiently and profitability by outsourcing certain business tasks or functions to other organizations that have the required personnel, expertise, equipment, or technology to accomplish these tasks. Whether it’s an IaaS, SaaS or PaaS implementation the service provider’s underlying platform will...
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Given that all software or service requirements are met by a MSP, organizations need to consider other important aspects of outsourcing managed services before actually take a decision. Bandwidth is one factor that plays an important role when choosing a service provider while, other factors include data center/s geographic location/s, inter-data centers bandwidth, management...
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When securing critical data we tend to base security governance on locations where data is stored, manipulated and made available to our customers. We tend to ignore the separation of data in motion and data at rest. Data may be encrypted from a backend database to a web application, proper database controls may be...
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Assigning IT roles is no easy task as it is an exercise that merges the individuals’ technical and educational backgrounds, hands-on experience and drive. Additionally, IT staff with the same skill sets may represent a harder problem to solve! The following article introduces some basic concepts that help IT managers within SMBs where each IT...
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It is estimated that 25% of SMBs use virtualized environments and the forecast for the coming years looks very promising. There are various benefits gained with virtualization, such as, lower operational costs, resources scalability, IT automation, faster deployments of application servers and many more features. On the other hand, we tend to ignore or...
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A Data Backup Strategy is a plan, method, or series of tasks for obtaining a specific goal – safe data backups! The main factors in a data backup strategy are the following: Backup medium – The destination backup medium depends on the size of the data being backed up. For smaller amounts of data a...
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