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Cloud computing has become a massively beneficial tool for businesses, offering scalability, flexibility, and significant cost savings. However, despite its many advantages, businesses often face several challenges when adopting or managing cloud-based solutions. One common issue is data security and privacy concerns. 

Cloud computing has seen some incredible developments in the past few years, giving businesses and individuals access to a wide range of powerful cloud options. These innovations have completely changed how we store, access, and manage data, offering organizations nearly unlimited computing options, robust scalability, and some pretty substantial cost savings. Today, we’re diving into some of the top advanced cloud solutions available today and what makes them so great for the growing business.

Data backup, while crucial to an organization’s continuity and sustainability, hasn’t had too many innovations over the past few years. Ever since businesses have started to do away with the resource intensive backups that required manual effort or antiquated methods (we’re looking at you, tape), backups and backup strategies have standardized a bit. In today’s blog, we’ll take you through that process and how emerging technologies are improving backup technology.

The cloud is a technology that can fundamentally change how a business operates, and in many more ways than one. We wanted to review what the cloud is and touch on the utility it can bring in pursuit of various operational goals and needs.

Today’s businesses have access to greater capabilities than ever before, largely thanks to the development of scalable and budgetable cloud computing. One of the most well-known cloud providers is Amazon, via Amazon Web Services, as it offers various options for businesses, covering multiple needs that businesses commonly have.

Let’s talk about some of the needs that AWS can help you fulfill.

The telephone has long been a staple technology in offices all across the world, but some companies have not evolved their telephone systems to account for changes in the way people communicate and collaborate in a modern office. Today, we want to highlight how Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, has changed the game for business telephone systems.

The small business is often put in positions where they just need to adapt and deal with the myriad of issues that pop up. A small business owner needs to wear a lot of hats. Bookkeeper, janitor, HR, and sometimes the boss. With 95% of the small businesses operating in the U.S. today using some form of computing to run their business, it’s important that the small business owners know about some of the latest technology they could be using to make their job(s) easier. 

What kind of cloud service does your business use, if it uses the cloud? There are private clouds, hosted and maintained on-site, and public clouds, where an external business will host and provide it on a subscription basis. While there are certain scenarios in which a private cloud is quite valuable, today, we want to focus the discussion on the more common of the two: the public cloud.

If you want to unlock your business’ true potential, you must intentionally implement technology that can move the needle. There are a lot of ways that new technology can do the exact opposite, however, and derail operations in a profound way. Let’s go over how you can ensure this doesn’t occur for your organization and some of the best tools to create more business opportunities.

Smart devices empower individuals and businesses to redefine the boundaries of connectivity, granting unprecedented control over their homes and offices. With just a tap on a screen, people can adjust their thermostats, secure their front doors, and regulate their energy consumption. The Achilles' heel of these interconnected devices, however, lies in their security.

Technology has assumed a central role in the operations of most businesses. You may already consider yourself well-versed in various aspects of business-related technology. Today, we'd like to explore five cutting-edge technologies that not only happen to be trending but also offer significant benefits for businesses. 

The cloud can help any business leverage solutions that were previously just outside of reach, whether due to budget restraints or implementation challenges. Now, however, cloud technology has proliferated to the degree that it would be absurd not to use it, but this kind of technology also requires dedicated security measures to protect your business’ assets. Here are some common cloud security mistakes your business should avoid at all costs.

While the cloud has long been touted as a cost-effective catch-all for a business’s needs, it needs to be said that this isn’t always the reality…specifically, the cost-effective part. Some circumstances can lead to the cost of the cloud being too expensive for a business to wisely invest in it for its needs. Let’s talk about how the value that can be gained from the cloud can be gauged, and how this data can help you.

The cloud allows businesses to improve flexibility and scalability in previously unheard-of ways. Today, we want to explore what the cloud can enable for small businesses, as well as the best options to get the most out of your solution.

The future presents countless interesting and daunting challenges, one of which you might not necessarily expect: data preservation. Is today’s data storage up to the task of preserving information for the decades and centuries to come? Today we explore this interesting concept and some of the options businesses have at their disposal, at least for the foreseeable future.

Bear with me while I get a little nerdy here, but I recently finished the sci-fi novel series Remembrance of Earth’s Past by Liu Cixin. It’s also known as the Three-Body Problem series, and while I don’t want to spoil anything, the series is full of very interesting problems that future humans run into as they try to ensure their longevity in an apparently dangerous universe. One of these problems that got my IT brain spinning was archiving data that could potentially outlive humankind itself. It highlights just how fragile and temporary our modern data storage is, and it’s worth examining, because more and more of our things are built upon modern data storage, whether we realize it or not.

Nearly every business can use cloud computing to cut costs and get the resources they need to reach their goals. This includes processing, storage, and applications deployment. Since small businesses don’t have the available capital that larger organizations do, they’ve found that cloud-based tools have cost advantages. While cost is a big consideration, there are other factors that you have to consider before you commit to cloud-based computing for your business. Let’s take a look at some of these factors.

Today’s business relies on their technology to the point that even an extremely small business continuously needs more computing. Well, as business software, cybersecurity tools, and cloud resources get more reliable, it isn’t as hard for small businesses to get the tools they need to run efficiently and productively. Let’s take a look at four ways your business can overpower its operations with technology. 

Your business runs on software, whether it’s hosted on your office’s internal network or in the cloud. However, it turns out that there are several benefits to considering the cloud-based model using cloud-hosted Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings. Your organization can enjoy enhanced accessibility, scalability, and easier maintenance and updates through the use of a SaaS model.

If the technology in your office is holding your team back from making the most of their workday, then you know there is an opportunity present to implement new technology, whether it’s a hardware refresh or implementing new solutions entirely. Let’s go over how you might be able to tell if this is something that is currently affecting your business.