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For a business to grow, it needs to take risks. A growing business increases its dependency on IT, and the risks to the business if IT fails grow, too. IT needs a strategy to manage its own risks [...]

Desktop PCs have become cheap, but they aren’t yet disposable. Performing routine maintenance will prevent them from breaking down and provide better performance, allowing you to defer upgrading [...]

So you’ve been convinced of the importance of conducting a disaster recovery test. You’ve done one, sometime within the last year. You got your applications up and met your recovery objectives, [...]

The demand for network bandwidth rarely goes down; it isn’t usually stable, either. As digital transformation and the Internet of Things spread technology throughout the entire enterprise, [...]

Mobile computing and BYOD are now baked into business IT strategies. They’ve moved far beyond employees simply being always reachable to employees always able to access the data they need to be [...]

Even if you’ve moved all your applications and data into the cloud, you still need a disaster recovery strategy. The cloud vendor can have an outage; you can experience a network problem that [...]

There is no such thing as perfect safety in the world. Not in the real world and not in the physical world. In fact, the risks—which have never been small—are getting worse. When one security [...]