For business owners, the choices of low-cost tools to manage your business data are plenty. The challenge these choices present include keeping tabs on the multiple tools and processes involved in keeping your business up and running.
Trying to manage or even define “data” really requires some further consideration. Having access to data, protecting it, backing it up, and getting it back after an attack, are all different areas that each require your focus, understanding, and attention.
DATA ACCESS
Today it is easy and inexpensive to get the tools needed to support your business. In fact, it might to too easy, meaning that the many choices a business has risks losing data due to multiple systems that are not integrated. For example, cloud-based storage is easy; getting your employees, partners, and clients to use it in a seamless way can be a challenge.
The very tools and processes that you need to be more efficient can make you less efficient if they are not implemented and managed well.
DATA BACKUP AND RECOVERY
Backing data up sounds relatively uncomplicated, but it is another data task that needs to be professionally managed. What needs to be backed up? How often? How long does it take? How is it managed so that it can be easily retrieved?
Backing up data (quantity, speed, and frequency) comes with costs. Beyond that, today’s hybrid workforce brings a level of complexity that managers did not have to deal with when employees were all working in the same building instead of at home on a mix of business-owned and personal devices. Getting data from different “offices” stored in a shared and secure location supports collaborative and remote work while making sure steps are in place to recover from any data disaster.
Having proper recovery procedures in place minimizes expensive future problems.
DATA SECURITY
As hackers get better at what they do, small businesses are at more risk because going after small businesses makes business sense to criminals who have streamlined their operations with tools like AI. The rise of the hybrid workplace amplifies the risk of failing to keep employees and data safe.
DATA MANAGEMENT: BOTTOM LINE FOR YOUR BUSINESS
Technology is supposed to support and accelerate your business, not slow it down. Slow and inefficient systems cause problems that make work harder for your employees and customers.
Think about how much better your operation would run with a Managed IT service that could anticipate and prevent problems, or respond quickly and effectively when they arise.
Where Do I Start?
We have the expertise to help you get started, and make a smart investment. Please contact me for more on how PSN Technology can help your business.
Philipp Emma | philipp@psntech.com | 313-792-8082 x 202
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