The Top 7 Questions CEO's should be Asking their IT Team Question 3: Where is our data? Why: COVID did a lot of things. It forced a lot of businesses to very quickly pivot and put solutions in place to enable work from home. A few years have passed and some businesses have moved back to the office, and some haven't. Many of the "in a pinch" solutions that were put in place because of COVID necessity became the new normal for a business. Sometimes users got creative about where they were putting company data. As a result, many organizations ended up with data stored locally across 100 laptops, scattered across various approved and not company approved cloud solutions, stored in web based applications, and stored in servers both in the cloud and on premises. To be able to effectively secure and backup data, and ensure continued unhindered operations, you need to know where your data ended up. Then you need to decide if you want it there or not. More than likely you'll want users to consolidate storage into one or two company approved locations, and then ensure solutions are in place to backup and secure those locations. A deceptively simple question with frequently complicated answers. Asking it is important because it will tell your IT team where to start.
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i.t.NOW provides technology solutions for Utah's small- to medium-sized businesses. We offer comprehensive data backup and recovery solutions, threat monitoring, cloud computing solutions, on-site and remote I.T. support, virtualization services and more. Since 1992, hundreds of Utah companies have saved thousands of dollars by partnering with i.t.NOW to increase employee productivity, reduce down time and protect computer networks. In short, we help keep your business in business, and usually do it for less than the cost of one in-house I.T. employee. For more information on i.t.NOW call (801)562-8778, or visit www.itnow.net.
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- 11-50 Mitarbeiter
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2436 W 700 S
Pleasant Grove, UT 84062, US
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Danny de Vries
B2B and B2C Digital Marketing Expert, Serial Entrepreneur, Board Room Executive, Investor, Product Launch Consultant, Copywriter & Affiliate Marketer
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Phil Robinson
Owner, i.t.NOW - providing Managed Services
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Darrell Podwys
Information Technology Support Technician at i.t.NOW
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Jordan Calderwood
Technical Services Engineer at i.t.NOW
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If your company is looking at any kind of mergers and acquisitions in the next while, technology due diligence should be on your list of to-do's. We wrote up some notes why. https://lnkd.in/gN7HsgfP
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While we don't recommend such a... permanent reminder to invest in cybersecurity, the message still stands: if you aren't currently investing in the cybersecurity of your business, schedule a free consultation with our team of experts at www.itnow.net!
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The Top 7 Questions CEO's should be Asking their IT Team Question 2: How quickly could we currently recover from an outage? Why: This again is about determining current risk levels to the organization. If you know that downtime will cost you $7000/hr, and that your current solutions will make it difficult to recover in less than 24 hours from a failure. Is $56000 (assuming 8 hr work day) an acceptable level of loss? If you could spend a few hundred dollars a month for a technical solution that could cut downtime from 24-48 hours to 1-2 hours, would it be worth investing in? This question illuminates any shortcomings in the current disaster recovery solution, and opens the door to investigate alternatives if needed. It may also lead you into interesting strategy discussions about whether the current structure of your data and applications are the correct choice for your business. All important things to talk about.
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Microsoft has made multifactor authentication for Office 365 mandatory. We've been requiring our clients to do it for a while. Here's some of the reasons why. https://lnkd.in/gMJarjnK
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At many law firms (especially smaller firms), staffing an IT department is regarded as an unnecessary expense. The thinking goes something like this: lawyering has been around for centuries without employing IT staff, so why change now? The truth is that this practice only leads to employees holding onto their IT issues, which snowballs into a worse customer experience! It's time to find a technology partner who specializes in the law industry: Submit a contact form at www.itnow.net and let's find out if that's us.
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