Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity: What’s the Difference and Why it Matters?
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity: What’s the Difference and Why it Matters? Businesses of all sizes should think about their plans and preparations around backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity. While often confused, each of these concepts is unique and needs to be considered separately by business leaders. What are backups? First, let’s start with […]
Shelter-in-Place Checklist for Business Leaders
Shelter-in-Place Checklist for Business Leaders All over the country, businesses are struggling to keep up with the daily disruptions and risks posed by the COVID-19 outbreak. Social distancing and working from home is the new normal. Over the past few days, the Protek team has been working overtime from our own home offices to help […]
Do You Have a Business Disaster Plan?
Turn on the news and it is hard to avoid seeing parts of the country that haven’t been affected by floods, fires, or tornadoes. No business can avoid these unexpected events. Having a business disaster plan in place is critical to your business being able to withstand this type of catastrophe. Statistics show that 1 […]
What is Your Business IT Downtime Costing You?
You are at work and your computer is giving you troubles again. You spend an hour trying to fix the problem only to experience more frustration and extended downtime. Downtime is something business owners deal with on a regular basis. It not only costs them money, but effects their productivity as well. On an average, […]
Protect Your Business from Ransomware
With the spread of ransomware viruses like WannaCry and Petya lately, it’s becoming extremely important to know how to protect yourself from these damaging viruses. The way ransomware works is that it encrypts the files on your computer or on your server so you can not access them unless you pay for the decryption key. […]
How to Backup Like a Pro
Backups are the most important part of a company’s information technology strategy. Restoring deleted or damaged files or emails is one of the tasks managed IT support providers do the most for their clients. It is sometimes so easy for your provider to restore these files, that it seems like anyone can do it at […]
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As you are well aware, your business’s data is one of its most treasured assets. It could be gone in the blink of an eye if you aren’t careful in defending it. If an unexpected hardware failure or power outage were to occur, would your business be able to bounce back with minimum downtime and […]
Microsoft Teams benefits
Every business owner understands the importance of planning and the proper implementation of said plans. However, after everything is set up, it’s easy to overlook the testing of one’s plans, which can really come back to hurt you when all of your careful planning falls apart. Nowhere is this more true than with data recovery. […]
How Much is Your Data Worth?
How much is your data worth? It’s been said that a company’s data is its most important resource. If this is true, then is it possible to assign a monetary value to your files? If you attempted to do so, you may come to the conclusion that your company’s data is more valuable than anything […]
C-C-Click Click, and Other Symptoms of Hard Drive Failure
Your mind is racing at a mile a minute, and you keep a to-do list for all of the things you are supposed to do. Unfortunately, that to-do list is often forgotten about. You save it as a .DOC text file on your computer, which has been making a strange clicking noise lately. But one […]