The threat of a digital security breach has never been more prevalent, and encryption is one of the best ways to defend your data from hackers. When it comes to protecting your growing business, having a secure network ensures the safety of servers and databases, but encryption protects the data within your network. Business data… Continue Reading Encrypting is the Key to (Secure) Success
A small business seeking growth has a lot to consider. Obtaining and managing data now can affect decades of market presence, and swift management can mean meeting goals in months instead of years, but as with any organism, a business is at its most vulnerable when it is in its earliest stages. Security breaches are… Continue Reading The Supported Ascent: Cybersecurity and Data Management For The Growing Business
Our modern lives have been built on the back of unwavering certainty. Steam engines allowed us to spread out, trade, and communicate across vast distances. Modern medicine is built on guaranteed biological reactions within us. That’s the kind of definitive cause and effect we’re finding in big data and data analysis. Couple that with the… Continue Reading The Empirical Elegance of Data
How does using data/business intelligence give businesses an edge over those who don’t utilize customer or company data? Data is the most valuable commodity for any modern business. Small bits of information — such as customer age, consumer habits, and location — all add up to a bigger picture. Minute, seemingly disposable data accumulates to… Continue Reading Big Data and Predictive Analytics: The Competitive Edge
In our previous blog, we discussed the need for businesses and organizations to devote at least five percent of their overall personnel budget to information technology. However, reaching that five percent threshold can be difficult for some startups, sole practices, specialized small businesses and even larger organizations. So what’s a business to do? As with… Continue Reading Beyond the Five Percent Rule: When Outsourcing IT is the Best Option for Businesses
In chemistry, equilibrium is created in acid-base combinations by using the five percent rule. AchievinPreview Changes (opens in a new tab)g chemical equilibrium in the products and reactants is akin to reaching an important state of balance. Though most businesses are far removed from the world of chemistry, five percent is still a useful measure… Continue Reading The Five Percent Rule: Creating the Perfect Staff Equilibrium
One of the world’s largest source-code hubs, GitLab, has spent years building a business that not only caters to small and medium-sized businesses, but also marquee clients including IBM, NASA and Macy’s. In February, however, this powerhouse company almost lost its long list of clients due to a temporary, accidental data loss and a backup… Continue Reading Avoiding the Perils of a Bad Backup Plan
Popular culture loves to highlight the hard work that goes into creating a good legal strategy. From “Law and Order”, “Boston Legal”, and more recently “Suits”, viewers get a sneak peek into the client meetings, research and even courtroom performance of law firms. What is not often shown is the work that goes on behind… Continue Reading The Verdict: Law Firms Should Invest in a Comprehensive IT Plan
“The Cloud.” It isn’t always the easiest concept for people to understand. Where is it? What is it? Is it safe? Even the most seasoned businessperson may be flummoxed by just how data can be secure when it’s just out there, somewhere. But they shouldn’t be. Business leaders need to be armed with questions when… Continue Reading Selecting Cloud Software
It seems these days that hacker is a job title with a bright future. Take a few extra clicks through the web and you’re bound to read either a story about hacking or the actual information that has been hacked – emails, business financials, personal info, or even your grandma’s secret fruitcake recipe. In 2017,… Continue Reading Business Leaders’ Guide to Avoiding Hacks
If you follow amshot (and you do, or you wouldn’t be reading this), you may have noticed something new amid our technology- and IT-related posts. To commemorate amshot’s tremendous growth over the last four years, Oklahoma City-based artist Sam Washburn is developing 40-60 sketches for an amshot-themed art project whose overall connectivity will be revealed… Continue Reading A Different Way of Introducing Ourselves
