Imagine logging into your email one morning and finding an empty inbox. No emails, no attachments, no records of past conversations. Or envision discovering that all your contacts in your sales and marketing CRM are gone. These terrifying scenarios can happen if your data isn’t properly backed up. While many assume that cloud services automatically safeguard all their data, the reality is different. Cloud-to-cloud data backup has become an essential strategy to ensure your data remains protected, even when relying on third-party Software as a Service (SaaS) applications. Here’s what you’ll find in this article: Understanding the Responsibility Divide When […]

The Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 operating systems are going out of support on October 10, 2023, and cyber-criminals are rubbing their hands in anticipation. Why? Because they know there will be a lot of networks that will continue to run the unsupported software and that will make them easy targets to exploit as new security vulnerabilities are discovered. Running unsupported software is a big risk because the developer no longer creates security patches to mitigate new vulnerabilities as they’re discovered. Cyber-criminals will continue to discover new holes where they can sneak into a computer via unpatched software. Once […]

If you still have your company servers onsite at your business location and you’re wondering if you should go to the cloud, the answer is probably – Yes. There are many reasons why this is a good idea, and for us here on the Gulf Coast, one of those reasons is hurricane season. Let’s make sure that we’re talking about the same thing when we say “cloud” because there are different kinds of cloud computing. For the purposes of this article, just think of the cloud as the utilization of servers for file storage and computing resources that are not […]