Do you have any experience or heard of stories about firing an IT person or a company? I am sure you have….. The person or the company that has the keys to the kingdom, which pretty much they have control of your business and its flow. The person that’s not easy to disable their account once they leave the company.

Do you know someone right now who’s in a law suite with their previous IT company/Personnel, who decided once their contract has been terminated they went ahead and damaged your Exchange server, locked out a few services, modified your firewall, or even deleted your backups. Sounds scary does it ? all these are interesting facts concerns right?

Well, here at Nevada IT Solutions we have seen a lot of these cases, especially when the client delivers the news to the IT person/company that they are moving on…Not the most strategic things to do, why?  You have to expect the worse when things have came to this point, especially dealing with emotions, anger and that could lead to very bad consequences.

Here’s a few tips we recommend you do before you are delivering the bad news and mitigate the risk :

• Work with your future IT person/company a month in advance to make the transition and have a plan of attack
• Ask your current IT to give you all the passwords and network topography as your organizing your business and streamlining it.
• A day or an hour before delivering the bad news, change all the passwords, it will make it easy if you use an SSO (Single Sign On) service.
• Backup your data even though you have other backups, just in case.

Overall, being proactive to is key, and this is what we adopt here at Nevada IT Solutions, when it comes to risk management, IT consulting, IT services.

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Cloud computing provides a simple way to access servers, storage, amazing processing power, scalability and much more. Often I hear people saying the cloud is not for them because they are a small business. Well that’s not true,  tapping into amazing processing power, storage, bandwidth has never been easier and affordable then ever. The high up-front costs of hardware and implementation are a big burden on small business but the cloud has solved it, you only pay for what you consume…How does that sound? Great I am sure so let’s explore a few benefits here:

 Flexibility:

Cloud-based services are ideal for businesses with growing or fluctuating bandwidth demands. If your needs increase it’s easy to scale up your cloud capacity, drawing on the service’s remote servers.

 Reduce spending on technology infrastructure:

Maintaining an easy access to information with minimal upfront spending. Pay as you go (weekly, quarterly or yearly), based on demand.

Globalize your workforce on the cheap:

People worldwide can access the cloud, provided they have an Internet connection. Cloud has enabled companies to have a global work force, I remember whenI worked at Microsoft, my team was in Europe and India, and spread out across the US, pretty cool huh?

 Disaster recovery:

Cloud is now helping more companies with disaster recovery. Your data up in the cloud, which is for most of the time geo redundant which means your data is safe from any disaster, of course you have to set that up.

Improved accessibility:

You can access your data and applications anytime, anywhere, making your life so much easier and not location or time dependent

Here at Nevada IT Solutions we have partnered up with great cloud providers to help your business and take the burdens of technology out of your plate. Are you cloud ready? let’s schedule a free consulting session to discuss your needs.