Whether you’ve accepted it at your business or not, remote work is only going to grow and become a necessity for businesses to offer partial or full remote. If you currently offer remote work or looking at potentially expanding this option, there are a few key items to consider. Let’s lay out the most important […]
IT Company, IT Solutions, IT Support, Managed Services
What are IT Services? 12 Demonstrated Ways IT Support Can Benefit Your Business
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Table of Contents Gartner defines IT services like this: “IT services refers to the application of business and technical expertise to enable organizations in the creation, management, and optimization of or access to information and business processes.” Essentially, it’s the labor and expertise that makes technology run. For most SMBs, it doesn’t make sense financially to […]
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Jul
This week we met with a business owner to discuss their current IT solution. They’ve been with the same company for years. It’s a small shop with just a few employees and was great for a long time. There was really 1 guy that knew and maintained their systems. He left the company about a […]
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Jun
Jun
We knew it was coming, and the official announcement is finally here. Microsoft made the significant announcement in May of 2023: Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 will both reach End of Life and End of Support later this year, on October 10, 2023. For businesses with on-premises servers that weren’t bought and configured in the last […]
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Jun
Jun
Remembering passwords is difficult. Breaking passwords (with the right tech tools) is easier than we’d like to think. And reusing passwords is incredibly risky. Passwords Solved Password managers generally work like this: you input all your username and password combinations to the password manager (usually over time as you naturally use them), and the service […]
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Jun
Jun
Cable vs Fiber When was the last time you looked at the internet connectivity options for your business? If it’s been a little while, now is a great time to take another look. Fiber internet offers a host of business benefits like greater speed, higher reliability, and lower costs. It’s been around for a few […]
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Jun
Jun
No matter what your business does, some portion of your workforce needs a productivity and collaboration suite to get work done. This key suite of tools used to be called an office suite (with Microsoft Office as the undisputed king of the market. But in the last decade or so, the “office suite” category has […]
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Let’s be real: keeping the computer hardware for your entire staff up to date is a pain. It’s expensive and usually time-consuming, and even when the hardware swaps go well, there’s always a little bit of lost productivity as users wait for the new device to be installed and then take the time to […]
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As a busy business owner, you’ve got plenty on your plate. Keeping your business efficient and on-target is crucial, but let’s face it: you don’t have time to dive deep into the technical details of every new software tool that comes along. At i.t.NOW, we get it: you need your business’s IT operations to stay […]