4 Motivators for Stuck Tech Projects
Technical people tend to focus on details. And when it comes to technology consulting there are a lot of details. For example, the minimum system requirements for a server, the firewall ports that are required for an application, the space included in a wireless network.
A mature technology partner and an internal IT Coordinator deliver higher productivity at a lower cost than a fully staffed IT department. Remember the librarian coming to your classroom with the TV cart? It wasn't that the teacher could not setup and plug in the TV. It was just easier to schedule and have the librarian bring it.
Are you hiring for technology roles of the past? Below are three roles that your business needs to evaluate and consider outsourcing based on today's technology landscape. This is not an easy process, as there are PEOPLE in these roles that typically have reached the end of their careers or cannot obtain a similarly compensated role elsewhere.
Workstation recovery is the most overlooked part of recovery planning. Recovering all your servers and data without workstations is not useful. This becomes critical as office locations and workstations increase. Reinstalling the operating system and applications for 10 workstations can be brute forced, the same cannot be said for 100. The uncomfortable stares of employees waiting to get their workstations back up and running is an event you want to avoid.
If you run a business and think RPO means run pass option, your business backup strategy is in trouble. An area of focus we highlighted last week was recovery planning. There are two key concepts in recovery planning. These concepts link directly to the success of your business surviving a ransomware event.