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How to Make Sure You Have the Data You Need Every Time

We’re in unreal, crazy times at the moment, and it has to be said that a lot of people are regretting their move to the cloud.

A lot of people are loving it as well because they’re going, “Huh, you know what? Sweet, I’m in the cloud. This is great! I can access everything from home. It is good.”

Internet Speeds Are Slowing Down

The problem with cloud migration, especially when the lockdown started and everybody started working from home, is the loads increased by about 300%, not just 10% or 20% or 30%. That means we’ve seen lots of core business go up and down, which is something that wouldn’t happen if business owners spent the money on business-grade Internet connections and kept their infrastructure local.

Get Localised Copies of Your Data

Having said that, if you have made the decision to move to the cloud, it’d be a very sensible idea to make sure that you’ve got localised copies that you can set to schedule to download at night.

Whether that’s through Dropbox, OneDrive or anything like that, make sure you go out, buy bigger drives, and have everything copied locally. That way, it’s going to be much, much quicker when you go and open up that document.

Backups, Backups, and More Backups

If you want to make sure things are staying nice, quick, and efficient, these are things that you need to be keeping in mind and doing.

Keep a localised copy of the data. This has become even more important since we started seeing Internet outages and blackouts across Australia and also on an international scale.

Keep your data local and make sure you have backups. If you don’t know where your remote workforce is backing their data up to, find out. See what you can do to see where the files are going.

The Final Word

If something goes terribly wrong and your IT company blows up and disappears, where do you go to get your data backup? Where do you get all of your information?

Have a Business Continuity Plan and Disaster Recovery Plan in place so that you won’t ever lose data and if you do, you can easily retrieve it and avoid days or weeks of downtime.

If you’ve enjoyed this, make sure to jump across to iTunes, give us some love, and some feedback, and let us know what your thoughts are. Stay good and stay healthy.

Editor’s Note: This episode was originally published on 5th May 2020. It has been revamped and updated for accuracy and comprehensiveness.

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3 Tips on How to Keep Your Technology Up to Date

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This strange, alien landscape is one of the many canyons of Utah. And as you might expect, they filmed a lot of movies down here, one of the most famous is the Planet of the Apes. In that film, ‎Charlton Heston and his crew of astronauts, who were in hibernation for 2,000 years, ultimately crashed back on Earth, but they didn’t recognise their planet because it’s changed that much and because the apes have taken over.

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How Do You Protect Your Organisation From Hacking?

As technology continues to develop, hacking has been unfortunately becoming extremely prevalent in the world of business. Every year, hacking cases are increasing, and security experts are providing constant warnings on new methods that are causing havoc. Fortunately, there are many ways to take precautionary actions to avoid any hacking instances, and there are plenty of media buying agencies doing their bit to protect clients’ work from being compromised. There are many ways to protect your organisation, but you need to be constantly up to date on what steps to follow. Here are some tips to protect your business’s security from hackers.

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The Ultimate Guide to IT Outsourcing

Face it! Information technology has drastically changed the face of business. It doesn’t matter anymore where you are, where your employees are, and where your customers are and we have proven that during the lockdown.

If your IT department is doing its job well, it can help you reach anywhere on the globe. Employing a full team of IT professionals might be too big a step for businesses that are just starting out or bouncing back after the Covid-19 crisis. For most companies, you can simply outsource. It means bringing on a team of IT brainiacs as a third party to manage your IT requirements. To make matters easy, here is the ultimate guide to IT outsourcing for small businesses.

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Useful Tips on How to Preserve Your Files and Data

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I’m on Fossil Walk in Badlands Park. It’s a pretty cool name, and this place is famous for its fossils, particularly mammals, which we’ve found lots of ancient pigs, rhinos, horses, rabbits, rodents, and plenty of others. I find it amazing that this piece of history can be preserved like this for millions of years.

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How to Grow Your Business With Managed IT Services

Can Managed IT Services Help Improve Your Business?

For your business in Australia to grow and stay competitive, you need to streamline your current processes and implement new methods. An easy way to do this is by introducing managed IT services. By incorporating professional IT support into your operations, you can reap a range of benefits, such as better operational efficiency, lower operating expenses and bigger earnings.

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How to Choose the Best Vendor in IT Outsourcing Services

Selecting the Best Provider of IT Services in Brisbane

As an Australian entrepreneur, you know about outsourcing IT services pros and cons, outsourcing models and certain tasks may be outsourced. However, with so many reputable IT outsourcing companies in Australia and abroad, you may find it overwhelming or daunting to select one for your business. If you are looking to simplify your vendor selection process, we have guidelines to help you outsource as securely as possible.

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How to Take Full Advantage of Managed IT Services

What Should SMBs Demand From Their Managed IT Services Provider?

If you own a small or medium-sized business in Australia, you most likely opted for a managed IT services provider (MSP) to handle your IT needs. After all, it’s the most cost-effective way of addressing your company’s IT system concerns. For one, you don’t have to worry about IT employee turnovers, and another, you get to focus on managing business operations and planning for expansion. However, a question may linger—do you stop there, or should you demand more from your MSP?

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What Are the Indicators of a Good IT Support Service?

Is Your IT Support Measuring Up to Your Expectations?

Business owners in Australia always want to get their money’s worth for every decision they make. Choosing how you manage your IT concerns implies consequential costs for your business. If you opted for managed IT services over individually paid IT support jobs, you should check regularly if they’re still serving your business needs. Is it time to switch? Read on below to find out.

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Technology in Business

How does technology help businesses? For 40 years, the CN Tower was the tallest structure on Earth.

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Do Startups Really Need Outsourced IT Support?

Will Outsourced IT Support Make or Break Your Startup Success?

In the rapidly evolving business landscape, startups are consistently under pressure to improve their operations while ensuring the security and efficiency of their systems. A robust IT support can make all the difference. Outsourced IT support, especially from a trusted managed services provider, can offer a suite of solutions tailored for startups, from cloud services to data backup and network monitoring. These providers bring an unparalleled level of expertise and experience, helping startups navigate the complexities of technology.

Imagine just starting a new business here in Australia and your computers were suddenly attacked by aggressive ransomware. Could anyone from your team resolve this issue and prevent it from escalating and affecting all of your other valuable data? Are there really free resources that can help you avoid these IT issues day in and out? Or would it be wiser to just have outsourced IT support from a reputable IT Company? As a startup, you would want to begin your operations smoothly but with the least money spent as possible.

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What Makes an Effective IT Audit Process?

Why Do You Need to Understand the IT Audit Process?

So, you are now convinced that business owners in Australia are not exempt from cyberthreats. You made a choice and decided that an IT security audit process is necessary for your growing business. You sit down with your IT audit team, set your objectives and discuss the process. But then you realise, after all these efforts, how can you make sure your IT audit process will give great results?

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IT Audit Checklist: Why Do You Need It?

Why is an IT audit checklist important?

In this day and age, every business in Australia—small, medium or large—uses some form of technology. Knowing this, you cannot deny that data loss and security threats are becoming a fast-growing concern. As a business owner, you would want to make sure your business is free from this modern-age nightmare. A data security breach on your valuable business information is the last thing you would want to happen. This is where an IT audit checklist will come in handy.

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Patching as a Service 101: Improve Security, Usability and Performance

What Is Patching?

So, you’re in the cloud. You’ve got all this awesome infrastructure and you want to make sure that your transactions through the cloud to wherever the data is stored is secure. One of the main things you need to do is make sure you have patching as a service. But what exactly is patching? It is a set of changes rolled out by the developer or company designed to update, fix, or improve it. This usually includes fixing security vulnerabilities and other bugs and improving usability or performance.

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Want to Know How to Hack the Work Week?

How to Hack the Work Week

So the word hack used a lot, especially in my industry. It has been used for many more years than what it has been used everywhere else. But here we are. Nevertheless, let’s go through some ideas on how you can make sure that you have efficient tips on how to organise and attack the work week ahead of you.

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How to Smarten Up and Make Your Home Modern?

How to Smarten Up Your Home?

Bricks and bloody mortar, mate. Do you have a smart home? We use the term standard home versus smartphone because dumb home sounds odd. Nevertheless, if you’ve got a standard home and you’re a business owner you are missing out on a whole bunch of efficiencies.

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3 Tips on How to Keep Your Technology Up to Date

How Do You Protect Your Organisation From Hacking?

The Ultimate Guide to IT Outsourcing

(more…)

Useful Tips on How to Preserve Your Files and Data

How to Grow Your Business With Managed IT Services

Can Managed IT Services Help Improve Your Business?

How to Choose the Best Vendor in IT Outsourcing Services

Selecting the Best Provider of IT Services in Brisbane

How to Take Full Advantage of Managed IT Services

What Should SMBs Demand From Their Managed IT Services Provider?

What Are the Indicators of a Good IT Support Service?

Is Your IT Support Measuring Up to Your Expectations?

Technology in Business

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Do Startups Really Need Outsourced IT Support?

What Makes an Effective IT Audit Process?

Why Do You Need to Understand the IT Audit Process?

IT Audit Checklist: Why Do You Need It?

Why is an IT audit checklist important?

Patching as a Service 101: Improve Security, Usability and Performance

Want to Know How to Hack the Work Week?

How to Hack the Work Week

How to Smarten Up and Make Your Home Modern?

Why Choose Us for Business Automation?

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Ongoing support to optimise your automation

Brisbane-based automation experts

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