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What Is: Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM)?
Hello and welcome back to “What Is: ____” here on the Fantastic IT blog, our (bi-) monthly (-ish) blog where we take a look at popular concepts and terms in IT and explain them...
EVEN MORE Common IT-Related Abbreviations Business Owners Need To Know
Hello and welcome back to our series on the most important, common, and frequently-used abbreviations that business owners need to know in 2024. In our previous article on this...
Shared Hosting vs. Dedicated Hosting vs. VPS Hosting: A Quickstart Guide For Business Owners
When it comes to web hosting, there are a lot of options for business owners. Most business owners don’t know (and don’t need to know) much about web hosting, especially if you...
12 More Common IT-Related Abbreviations Business Owners Need To Know
Hello and welcome back to our series on the most important, common, and frequently-used abbreviations that business owners need to know in 2024. In our previous article on this...
12 Common IT-Related Abbreviations Business Owners Need To Know
As a business owner, you wear many, many, many hats. Too many hats, as our significant others might say. We have to be experts in so many fields – finance, sales, marketing,...
How to Secure and Manage Company-Owned Mobile Devices: Advanced Strategies
In 2024, you’re going to have employees that use their phones to do business. It’s just the nature of the modern beast. But with every piece of internet-connected technology that...
Phishing Scams Facing Business Owners
No, that email from UPSTRACKINGaxxy121@U.ps.org is not your UPS tracking code! Do NOT click that link – it’s a phishing scam. Phishing has rapidly become one of the most...
What Is IoT?
Hello and welcome back to “What Is:______?” our (bi-)monthly(-ish) blog where we cover complex IT topics in plain English. This week, we’ll be covering IoT – an area of IT that...
Best VPNs for Business 2024: A Guide
If you’re a business owner, you’re probably thinking about how to protect your business from cyberattacks. With cyberattacks like phishing on the rise – and, according to leading...
What IT Services Do Small Businesses Need the Most?
You’re a small business owner and you’re looking to ramp up your IT infrastructure in some way so that you can stay competitive in a business landscape that is radically changing...
What Is: Mobile Device Management (MDM)?
Hello and welcome to another edition of “What Is:____?” our (sorta) bi-monthly blog where we take complicated IT topics and break them down in plain English. This time out, we’ll...
10 Must-Have Customer Service Tools For Small Businesses
As a small business owner in 2024, you need to keep up with the times or get left behind. One of the easiest ways to do that in today’s world is to lean on IT customer service...
What Does A Software Solutions Company Do?
In 2024, software solutions are ubiquitous – we use them every day, whether we know them or not. Any time you log in to your email account or sign in to your bank’s mobile...
IT Consultants vs. Managed IT Services: A Comprehensive Guide
Your business is growing – and now you have to do something about your IT, to formulate some type of plan, to put some sort of order to the chaos of your business’s chaotic IT...
What is a Data Center and Do I Need One for My Business?
We’ve all heard about data centers – the massive, 100,000 sq. ft hulking monstrosities mostly located in the Northern Virginia area of the country – and the impact they have had...
White Label Services in IT: A Quickstart Guide
When it comes to building out your company’s IT infrastructure, one term that you’ll come across often is “white label”, or “white label services” – usually used in conjunction...
When Do Small Businesses Need Managed IT?
When you’re a small business, you have to make some serious judgment calls that can have serious consequences on your business – even more so when you’re scaling your business up...
What is a Metered Service in Cloud Computing?
When it comes to cloud computing, one of the most common pieces of jargon that get tossed around by MSPs like Microsoft and Amazon is “metered services”. They flaunt it as some...