IT Strategy

An effective IT strategy provides the most value from your IT resources. Here are some factors to help you align your IT strategy with your business goals.

Our biggest priority as an IT company is to make our clients more efficient. One of the best ways to make money is to be more efficient, and a great way to measure IT efficiency is to determine how little things add up. Let’s dive into some of those measurable IT factors.

For those organizations that need a dedicated IT services provider, the choices are to employ someone to work on-site or to hire an outside firm. Here are some benefits of outsourcing IT services.

Being proactive with your IT management helps keep you running smoother and makes you more efficient. This is opposed to being reactive only, where something gets broken, and you have to call your IT company to come out and fix it while you’re down. 

To develop an IT roadmap, you need to understand your organizational needs and set clear goals for your roadmap. Envision your company’s desired state in one, three, and five years.

An IT roadmap should be proactive and preventative, which is why its foundational pieces should be understanding the aging and lifecycle of all the machines in your environment. Infrastructure components like desktops, laptops, servers, network switches, and battery backups.

Servers are essentially data processors and storage and can be used professionally and personally. Knowing the basics of a server is essential to understanding what will work best for you and your business or organization.

Storage is an important key when it comes to saving your information. Whether it’s for personal or business use, you need to be able to safely file and backup documents and any other information you’d like to store.  Network Attached Storage (NAS) is a great way to do this, and it does it securely. NAS…

More and more companies are switching to cloud solutions instead of having an on premise server, meaning one located in the same physical location as the business. So how can you tell when your small business actually needs a server? Or do small businesses ever need a server?