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Hosting your own servers in your office has plenty of benefits, especially in terms of data security, but doing so can be severely prohibitive. Besides spending on the upfront cost of necessary hardware and software, you’ll have to budget for repairs, maintenance, upgrades, and the possibility of hiring additional personnel who will manage your machines. What’s more, servers take up space, consume electricity, and require cooling to function properly.

Business owners looking to avoid these issues usually have two options: the public cloud or colocation. [...]

Cloud technology offers businesses many awesome benefits, including improved flexibility, data security, and efficiency. Potentially lower costs are also among its upsides, but many businesses counting on this particular advantage end up getting sticker shock when they do receive their monthly cloud bill. [...]

Considering how uncertain times are these days, you must calculate how every decision will affect your small- to medium-sized business (SMB). How much money will that decision cost? What do you stand to gain from it? Does it pose any risks? This is true even when you’re considering investing in the cloud. [...]

Industry experts predict that ransomware attacks, a frequent cause of significant business data loss and downtime, will happen about six times a minute in 2021. Unfortunately, the increasing popularity of remote work will likely make things worse. This is because although the practice has been instrumental in many businesses’ survival during the coronavirus pandemic, it can also open large gaps in a company’s IT security. [...]

The cloud has been critical in keeping businesses operational since the pandemic hit, and experts predict that it will only continue to become invaluable in the future. As cloud technologies become a staple in the workplace, the need to keep them secure becomes even more vital. [...]

With employees scattered because they’re all working from home, it can be difficult to ascertain if they are who they say they are when they log into their accounts. Or, it can be easy — thanks to identity and access management (IAM). [...]