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Meeting Enterprise Security Demands on a Budget

By now, you understand the importance of meeting customer security requirements. Throughout this series, we’ve explored the risks of non-compliance and introduced tools and strategies to help close the gap between your status quo and what your clients expect.

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Six Steps for Better Data Backups and Quicker Recovery

While incremental backups are much faster than executing a full backup, they also prolong recovery time. In the event of data loss, a full restore will require loading the most recent full backup and then each incremental backup tape. Having too many incremental backup tapes not only adds time to this restoration process, but it also increases the probability of not recovering all of your data.

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Disaster Recovery from the Cloud – Is It Wise?

Businesses often wonder if they should move their backup copies of data off of local servers and into the cloud. The answers to their questions, though, are not as simple as one might think. Just as there is not any single disaster recovery plan that works in all scenarios, there is not one method of data backup that is superior to the other in every situation.

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Boost Your Business Resilience with Disaster Recovery

Many businesses that ought to have a disaster recovery plan either lack one entirely or possess an underdeveloped version. It’s crucial to fully develop your plan to minimize business disruptions in the face of a disaster.

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Assessing your MSP in the First Appointment

Handing over your IT to an MSP is a major decision. Who do you choose and more importantly, how? While no rulebook will tell you exactly how to proceed, here are a few hints that can help you decide how invested your prospective MSP is in you.

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3 Reasons To Engage A Local Tech Partner For Products

Engaging a local technology partner to help with vendor and production selection can help companies achieve better results with lower costs. Having a trusted local technology partner offers access to additional pools of knowledge while also bringing a third party’s perspective into your decision-making process.

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Employee Training and Cybersecurity

Employee training will form a big part of the cybersecurity initiative that you will take on as an organization. You need to train your employees to identify and respond correctly to cyber threats. Here are some employee training best practices that you can make a part of your cybersecurity training program.

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Optimizing IT Spending: 10 Proven Strategies for CIOs

As technology continues to evolve, CIOs are faced with the challenge of making the most out of their budgets. In an era where IT budgets are expected to grow, strategic cost-cutting measures empower CIOs to allocate funds effectively and enhance overall flexibility in technology deployment.

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The Sky’s the Limit for SMBs Taking to the Cloud

There has been a lot of hype about cloud computing transforming the way small-to-medium-sized businesses do business. Proponents of the cloud say that cloud computing has leveled the playing field, allowing SMBs to finally compete with bigger companies despite their limited financial resources and staffing.

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Empowering Disaster Recovery: JCMR's Comprehensive Approach

JCMR Technology excels in crafting cutting-edge Disaster Recovery Solutions that efficiently minimize downtime and data loss in the aftermath of an emergency. Our solutions prioritize the immediate restoration of critical systems and the rapid reestablishment of secondary infrastructure, software, and data.

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Cloud Connected Disaster Recovery

Offline data recovery devices should be able to bring key applications back online in a matter of hours to reduce losses resulting from downtimes. CIOs, CTOs, and IT Managers responsible for data backup need to identify Cloud Providers with robust Disaster Recovery Solutions that are reliable and affordable.

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5 Important IT Checklists No SMB Should Miss

IT checklists are a great way to analyze, understand, and take the necessary steps to meet your IT requirements. In this blog, we discuss 5 important IT checklists–Hardware/Software and Cybersecurity.

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Run Your Business, Not an IT Company

You went into business because you have an interest and expertise in some particular product or service. You began the firm to offer that product or service, but a dirty little problem came along with that new company. IT requirements. You need equipment, and you need networks, printers, and data storage to keep the company up and running. As a consequence, you’ve become responsible for managing something you probably don’t care very much about or even understand especially well.

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Disaster Recovery Plans: Do You Have One?

Disaster recovery and business continuity plans are issues that almost all small businesses fail to think about. More frequently, they decide they haven’t the resources to address such “unthinkables.”

 If your business was down for 1-2 days or more, what costs would you incur?

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Outsourcing? Save Time and Money

Almost by definition, small business owners and entrepreneurs cringe at the concept of outsourcing. Those who start their own companies like the control and autonomy it provides them. Unfortunately, that preference for control and autonomy may have some bad side effects when it comes to IT.

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