Small and medium sized businesses today are relying more than ever on IT systems to efficiently run their business, support customers and optimize productivity. These systems house sensitive digital data ranging from employee and customer information, to internal emails, documents and financial records, sales orders and transaction histories. This is in addition to applications and programs critical to daily business functions and customer service.

According to Symantec SMB, 50% of SMBs admit to having no backup and disaster recovery plan in place. 41% of those surveyed confessed that they had never even given much thought to implementing a disaster recovery or business continuity plan. If you are one of them, then you really need to think about whether you can afford the status quo. Answering these questions will help you decide.

2016 was a banner year for large organizations proving vulnerable to pernicious data theft, although they were far from alone. In fact, that year saw 3.04 million data records compromised each day, a genuinely frightening statistic serving as a reminder of how our confidential information is only as safe as the security protocols guarding it.

Disaster can strike your business at any time. Whether it is the result of a natural disaster such as an earthquake, or a system crash resulting in a loss of critical data, encountering one can wreak havoc on your ability to conduct your business.

As more businesses make the shift away from fully self-managed IT operations and toward data and services hosted in the cloud, the debate rages on whether or not a private or a public cloud hosting arrangement is the ideal setup, particularly for small businesses.

It’s undeniable that the market for software development is vast, with many companies budgeting as much as $1.5 million over a 12 to 18 month period for custom application creation.

Ask any of the tech people at our Florida office and they’ll tell you that the same thing. Office 365 (O365) is an IT solution that makes an impact.