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IT Strategic Planning: 3 Steps to Start the Process

As another year flies past, is your technology accounted for? In order to keep a well-maintained IT environment, you must make your technology a part of your annual strategic...

The Placement Engineering Model: How To Augment Internal Staff with an MSP

To view the recording of our Tuesday Tech Talk, click HERE. Over the last 12-15 months, staffing conversations have taken a turn that not many people expected, especially staffing...

3 Reasons Why Companies Consider Outsourcing IT

You come to work with all systems operational: patients are being checked in. Nurses are filling out charts. Doctors are prescribing medicine. Everything in your hospital is...

Multi-Factor Authentication - What It Is & Why It Matters

We’ve talked a lot about the importance of changing your password and making sure you choose passwords that aren’t easily guessed. And while you should always beef up your...

IT Asset Management: What It Is & Why It’s Important

It’s likely your company depends on several pieces of technology to consistently deliver a seamless product or service to your customers. When you consider that, protecting your...

Tools To Get The Most Out Of Office 365

Cloud services have modernized the way company's work and allow for collaboration in any place, with any device. At Five Nines, we’re big fans of Office 365 applications, but...

You Can’t Depend on Anti-Virus To Stay Secure. Here’s Why

As technology continues to change, the number of ways your company can be targeted in a malware attack grows. At Five Nines, we put a major emphasis on educating our clients about...

Cyber-Insurance:How It Can Save You Long-Term

It's likely you have insurance plans for all of the unforeseen circumstances in life: apartment fires, cell phone accidents and even getting sick. You may think of these plans as...

The Difference Between Backups and Disaster Recovery — And How To Plan For Both

As business owners, we typically prefer not to think about what would happen if we suddenly lost all of our company’s data and crucial information through a breach or accident....

Strategic IT Planning for the New Year

The new year is quickly approaching and it’s already time to start strategically planning to hit next year’s IT goals. Our rule of advice is that your team should sit down and map...