The Importance of Business Continuity: Surviving a Disaster or Crash
One of the most critical things a business can have in place these days is an emergency disaster plan. While no one likes to think about the possibility of disasters, natural disasters such as floods, storms, and earthquakes happen somewhere every day. The residents of Colorado this year never dreamed such a flood would happen […]
The Hidden Costs of Cheap Server Hosting
Most people get a feeling of satisfaction when they find a good deal, and in the world of web hosting, there is no shortage of these. For as little as five dollars per month, you get what seems like generous bandwidth and free one click installs of popular content management systems. You have access to […]
The Harm that Spam can Bring to Your Business’s Doorstep
In 2003, the Can-Spam Act set a list of rules that business owners have to follow when it comes to email marketing. The general tone of the act was that, spamming clients, both potential and current, was considered an illegal exploitation of private contact information. There are many ways that using spam to promote your business can […]
The Future is SSD
SSDs (Solid State Drives) are a lot less likely to crash or fail than hard disk drives because they don’t contain the moving parts of HDDs. This lowers their probability of malfunctioning, since any malfunctioning moving part of an HDD could cause the whole drive to fail or crash. SSDs are also faster than HDDs, which […]
The Four Most Common Business Continuity Missteps and How to Avoid Them
The importance business continuity can not be overstated, yet many businesses fall short in their planning efforts. That’s why we’ve compiled four of the most common business continuity pitfalls and how to avoid them. Not having a good grasp on the business: A business plan is incredibly important. If it is quickly disregarded or set […]
The Emergence Of Big Data In Marketing
No perfectly straightforward definition of big data exists, and there is plenty of ambiguity over what big data is, but most can agree it is a positive for marketing. Big Data at its core, in a marketing sense, is essentially the mass collection of data about customers and potential customers, and its ongoing analysis. Using […]
The Best Ways to Avoid an Email Scam
With so much email marketing going on these days, it would be easy to fall for an email scam. Thousands of internet marketers and companies use email marketing campaigns as a way to get their word out to the masses. So how do you know when something is a scam? Here are a few things to […]
The Benefits of SSD (Solid State Drives)
For the vast majority of the history of computers, magnetic drives of one kind or another have been the normal form of storage. Magnetic drives have held so much appeal because they do not require constant power, and they are easy to overwrite and change data on (as opposed to an optical disc which is […]
The Benefits of Network Attached Storage
Smooth and secure shared access to files is an important part of many businesses. Growing businesses often start sharing files without any plan; they just pass around USB sticks or email files. This gets inconvenient after a while, and it poses security risks. A better way is to have a shared storage device that serves […]
The Benefits of Cloud Computing
If you’re thinking about leaping into the cloud, you’re probably making the right choice. For years, cloud computing has been growing, and it’s now a solid concept that is central to many company’s operations. It presents few problems, but comes with many benefits. Let’s talk about a few. Cheaper Cloud computing is probably cheaper than […]
