E-Guides

Download our E-Guide “Demystifying the Cloud in Layman’s Terms”

Learn why migrating business-critical workloads to the cloud and leveraging a cloud performance monitoring tool may be the smartest business move a SMB can make this year.

A recent j2 Global survey revealed that nearly 60% of small and medium sized businesses intend to take to the cloud this year to cut IT infrastructure costs. SMBs that migrate to the cloud save money since they’re choosing an alternative to purchasing overpriced soon-to-be-obsolete on-site hardware.

Since most cloud services are priced on a subscription-based model, the cloud gives SMBs the flexibility to add or decrease storage as needed without tying them into a long-term contract. This means fewer wasted resources and greater scalability to meet ever-changing business demands.

Download our E-Guide “Outsourcing Isn’t A Dirty Word – Meet Managed Services, Your IT Team’s New Best Friend”

Learn how specific IT management responsibilities can be “out-tasked” to a local service provider who will remotely automate and perform routine tasks, improve system and application availability, and generate quantifiable cost-savings.Perhaps taking control has gotten you to where you are today. Letting go and relinquishing control just isn’t your thing. We get it.

But the escalated hassles and costs of “owning” your IT infrastructure might prove to be too much. Rather than focusing on core services and generating revenue, you’re fretting about IT investments and management. Even if you’re hiring brilliant in-house IT support, surely there is a better use of their talent than carrying out routine tasks and putting out fires every day?

Download our E-Guide “Keeping Small Businesses Safe: Combating Cybercrime on a SMBs Budget”

Learn how to identify common threats and properly manage antivirus software, firewalls, patches, and intrusion prevention. No company handling sensitive information is too small for a cybercriminal.Did you know that businesses with fewer than 250 workers have become a prime target of cybercriminals?

Hackers see SMBs as being more susceptible to security breaches since they typically lack solid security. Instead of attempting one risky “big score”, today’s cybercriminal targets thousands of small businesses at once and uses malware to collect stored credit card information that they use to extract money. Additionally, SMBs are often seen as a gateway to the data of their high-end B2B clientele.

Download our E-Guide, “Embracing the Age of Mobility & the BYOD Workplace”

Learn why safe BYOD begins with a comprehensive mobile policy and a cloud-based MDM solution.

Mobile technology is reshaping how we work. As SMBs embrace the BYOD (Bring-Your-Own Device) movement, more employees are using personal devices for work. Workers are happier, the ability to work from anywhere at anytime has bolstered productivity, and SMBs are cutting costs.

So what’s the problem?

Most SMBs have no formal mobility policy and are unfamiliar with mobile device management (MDM) technology. If acceptable/unacceptable usage isn’t clearly defined, and employee-owned devices aren’t properly deployed, configured, monitored and managed, costly security breaches will happen.

Download our E-Guide “Office 365 vs. Google Apps: Why More Businesses Are Choosing Office 365”

Where we discuss why small-to-midsize businesses are migrating to Office 365 and analyze its features and potential benefits.

Office 365 may be priced slightly higher than Google Apps but its benefits far outweigh Google’s offerings.

For starters, it requires minimal training. Your employees are likely already familiar with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint from their years of using Office desktop at work and home. They’ve also likely used Outlook as their email client at work.

Anything Google Apps can do, Office 365 can do better. Let’s face it; Google developed Docs, Sheets, and Slides to be cloud-based replicas of Microsoft’s better-known desktop products for a reason, and now the real thing has a cloud of it’s own.

Download our E-Guide “Service Patients, Not Technology: Achieving HIPAA Compliance & High Level Data Security in the Cloud”

Find out how recent changes to HIPAA are allowing the healthcare sector to finally use contracted and subcontracted vendors to safely migrate to the cloud and decrease data breaches.

Within the last two years, nearly 95% of healthcare organizations have had one or more security breaches exposing patient health records. These HIPAA violations are costly and can damage the reputation of any medical practice or health service provider. But are recent amendments to HIPAA guidelines the cure for this ailing security?

Download our E-Guide “Running on Borrowed Time: Why Businesses Must Finally Let Go of Windows XP”

Learn why the time has come for businesses to move on from Windows XP and gain insight into the challenges and benefits of migration.

Although Microsoft recently announced they’d be extending anti-malware support through July 2015, any business still using the 13-year-old operating system must fully migrate to Windows 7 or Windows 8 as soon as possible. Once Microsoft ends full support on April 8th, this still means the end to other crucial security updates, non-security hotfixes, the option of free or paid assisted support, and online content updates.

Download our E-Guide “Staying Alive – The Definitive Guide to Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery”

Learn how you too can leverage industry leading backup solutions to restore business critical data and applications in MINUTES – not hours, days, weeks or months. You’ve got no time for the cost of downtime!

On any given day, without warning, business operations can come to a screeching halt due to hardware or software failure, cybercrime, human error, or inclement weather. 81% of these outages last 1-3 days. Can you really afford that kind of lost productivity, revenue, and customer goodwill?

Smart SMBs today are utilizing cost-efficient business continuity and disaster recovery solutions that require no internal infrastructure or IT staff.