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How To Handle CPA Business Data
As an accounting firm, you deal in data. Whether it's your clients’ sensitive personal data or the incredible labyrinth of your human resources and internal data – in addition to...
IT Service Management For E-Comm: A Comprehensive Guide
If you’re a business that makes a significant portion of your revenue via online channels, congratulations! You are officially an e-commerce company! We don’t have to tell you...
What Is: Endpoint Protection?
Hello, and welcome once again to Fantastic IT’s “What Is_____” series – our monthly(-ish) blog where we cover some complicated IT concepts in a way non-IT folks can understand....
How to Minimize IT Downtime
Time is money – and nothing costs a business more time or money in the 2020s than the dreaded downtime. With a stunning number of cyberattacks (over 55% of businesses face...
What Is: ITSM?
Welcome back to another edition of “What Is ___”, our bi-monthly(-ish) series where we cover some fundamental or important topic in the world of IT and explain it in terms that...
What Are the Benefits of Managed Security Services?
As we’ve covered before in our article on the difference between Managed Services Providers (MSPs) and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), there’s an increasing demand...
ITIL – What Is It, Where’d It Come From, And Do You Need It?
If you’re in IT, have an IT department, have significant IT needs, or are simply IT curious, you’ve probably come across the term “ITIL”. The IT world is nothing if not obtuse in...
What Should Be In A Managed IT Service Level Agreement?
If you’re one of the 45% of businesses that are considering outsourcing part or all of your IT work to a managed service provider (aka an MSP), you’re probably wondering about...
2023 IT Budgets and Trends
As we covered in our post last week – IT budgets are a big deal right now among businesses. Many businesses are still navigating the remote/hybrid/WFH situation with their...
How Much Should You Spend on IT Services? A Comprehensive Guide
Probably the first thing that any business owner asks when it comes to upgrading, updating, overhauling or otherwise needing to spend a ton of money on something that doesn’t...
What is: IT Asset Management?
Hello and welcome once again to Fantastic IT’s “What Is:____” series – a monthly(-ish) series where the experts here at Fantastic IT shine a spotlight on some of the most...
Fantastic IT Recognized As Top 500 MSP In The World For 10th Straight Year!
Break out the party hats and poppers! We’ve got great news to share: we’ve been once again honored by Channel Futures as one of their TOP 501 BEST Managed Service Providers...
15 Cybersecurity Metrics To Use To Protect Your Company From Hackers
Hello, it’s me, I’m a Prince from Nigeria, and I will offer you $1 billion to wire me– Just kidding. We’re not scammers! We’re the experts at Fantastic IT and we’re here to help...
What is: Managed IT Services
Hello and welcome! This is the first ever edition of “What Is:_____” – a segment on our blog from the experts here are Fantastic IT, where we shine a spotlight on some of the...
What Are the Benefits of Managed IT Services?
If you’re a business owner looking to scale in any way, one of the first things you need to know is how your IT operations are going to grow with the rest of your business. Gone...
IT Services for Law Firms: A Comprehensive Guide
Introduction Most lawyers are anything but incompetent. With a broad educational base covering dozens of different topics and a daily routine of battling it out in court, those...
What Is An IT Manager And What Do They Do?
As a business owner, you either handle your IT internally or externally through various IT partners like (MSSPs or MSPs) – and somewhere along the line are your IT managers. IT...
How To Evaluate Cloud Service Provider Security
It can be terrifying to hand over your business’ (and your customers’) sensitive data to a third party. No matter how rock-solid cloud providers like AWS and Azure seem, they,...