Business Archives - Sound Computers | Westbrook, CT

It is no secret that the cloud is the future of business operations. Gartner predicts that global spending on cloud services will reach over $482 billion in 2022. That is up from the $313 billion in 2020.

Privileged account management (PAM) is a useful way for companies to ensure that users with excess access privileges are using their accounts appropriately and securely. PAM is also a valuable means to ensure that privileged accounts have not been compromised by external cyber-attackers.

It is important to have certain policies in place for how your technology is used regardless of the size of your company. Policies provide guidelines to keep you from suffering from a network security breach, being hit with a compliance violation and other issues.

If you do a Google search for IT consultants and services in Westbrook, Connecticut, not all firms that come up will have the same level of benefit for your business.

2020 was a good example of how unanticipated events can happen and have a serious impact on your business operations. They can stop operations altogether and they can also impact buying behaviors that can affect your bottom line.

Data security isn’t a matter to be taken lightly, as too many businesses have found out the hard way. Unfortunately, there are far too many simple ways to correct common security issues - enough that it’s foolish not to do so. We’ll review a few ways to fix security issues, after discussing one of, if not the, most egregious security failings in modern history.

There is no question that a small business can benefit from technology, as has been proven time and time again. However, an issue can arise if a business bites off more than it can chew, so to speak, and ultimately creates a spike in costs. A responsible business owner will resist this temptation and prioritize the solutions they need over the ones they want - building profitability and generating capital needed to make other improvements.

The cloud has proven to be an extremely useful tool for the modern business. Not only does it provide anywhere-anytime access to applications, processing, storage, et al; it also delivers those products as a service, allowing you to budget for recurring costs rather than major upfront ones. This provides your organization with functional, supported, and secure computing environments that eliminate a lot of the support costs that traditional computing environments require. It sounds like a perfect scenario for small and large businesses alike, but things aren’t always what they seem, as a lot of cloud users have found that they have incurred several hidden costs by using cloud platforms. Today, we take a look at these hidden costs.