OnSite I.T. Blog

If you’ve talked to a software vendor in the past decade or so, you’ve probably heard a pretty consistent pitch for the cloud: your access will be seamless, you’ll have nothing to maintain, there’s no limit to what you can do! Unfortunately, this isn’t necessarily the case. If either your business or the cloud provider experiences an outage, for instance, all these benefits evaporate. Your business is, for all intents and purposes, closed until the problem is solved.

Enter the local database, a practical and efficient way to overcome this weakness.

When your team members are trying to hit tight deadlines, they want the path of least resistance. Often, that means saving critical files to their local desktop or a personal cloud account to avoid network latency or deep folder hierarchies.

It seems harmless on the surface. However, storing company information on local drives creates major operational risks for your business.

Some businesses find it preferable to host their servers on-site, but they fail to ask themselves if the server is a reliable asset or a financial drain. For years, the argument was in favor of on-premise hardware due to control and a one-time purchase price. But the landscape has shifted since, and now business owners are prioritizing Total Cost of Ownership over control. Do you really know how much your physical servers are costing you, and do you think they are worth that price point?

All businesses rely on email, but we will admit that it’s not the sexiest technology solution out there. It’s more of a necessity rather than something you might get excited about implementing for your company. Still, this does not lessen its importance, so you should give it the same care you would any other aspect of your business’ IT infrastructure.

The small business has been really hit hard recently.  With around one-sixth of the workforce working online because of the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses have been doing some hand wringing about their future IT investments. Do you keep your computing resource onsite or do you look to the cloud to fill in? Today, we will take a look at this very question.

“The elephant in the room” has long been used as an analogy for a blatantly obvious problem that everyone is hesitant, if not unwilling, to acknowledge. Many companies find that they have elephants like these in their server rooms. Today, we’ll discuss some of these metaphorical elephants and how your company can get rid of them.