Helping your business to do more business
We're all aware of the inexorable march of computer technology, processors continue to get faster, as do graphics cards, memory increases, hard disks are getting positively huge (capactity wise anyway) and of course new software is released with ever more capability. But in all the clamour surrounding the release of new technology many people aren't aware of a technology which has been around for many years but is only now gaining more traction and dare I say more relevance.
Over the past 12 months I've seen 3 or 4 news articles saying that, shock horror, many UK small businesses don't have a web site. One such article put the number at something like 44%, but I suspect that figure might be on the low side.
As a species the vast majority of us are compelled to communicate with other members, both within our family unit and without. The very first humans would have used hand signals and maybe grunts (much as chimpanzees do now) which would have been followed by the evolution of language, which was probably the single biggest technical advancement in the field.
In these challenging financial times, we are all aware how important and cost effective it is to retain existing customers and build future loyalty when securing new business.
The single most important aspect of any IT maintenance regime is ensuring that we have regular backups of our data, and that those backups would work in the case of disaster. Ideally a backup should not require the involvement of the single greatest point of failure, us, unfortunately we humans tend to be the weak link.