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When business people think about “IT strategy,” they tend to focus on hardware and technical details like gigabytes and core speeds. Or, their minds turn to the expenses associated with enterprise-level cloud solutions and backup schemes. These are all very reasonable associations, but they focus on the details rather than the bigger things that are more important. The heart of … Read More

If you are in the process of looking for an outsourced IT team to help with your company’s technology you might have noticed that many businesses (Fantastic IT included) promote lots of different certifications. If you aren’t familiar with all of the different terms and hardware or software combinations you might be tempted to wonder whether these credentials matter at … Read More

Here at Fantastic IT, we spend a good deal of time educating new clients about what a strong managed services agreement looks like. In many cases, they simply don’t know what they’ve been missing out on because they have overpaid (and been under-served) by a vendor who didn’t give them as much attention and care as they should have. However, … Read More

Typically, when business owners tell us they are worried about their technology or data security, it’s usually because they are envisioning thieves and hackers who want to steal from them. However, the bigger risks sometimes come from inside a company’s walls. Your employees and managers might not mean your business harm, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t making common and … Read More

Are there nagging tech problems in your small business that you keep meaning to deal with at some point in the future, but never seem to get around to? Do you have printers that go off-line, networks that drop calls, or error messages that seem to pop up at random? These are just a few examples of nagging IT issues, … Read More

Summer is around the corner, and that means things will slow down at a lot of companies across Southern California. Owners and executives will be thinking about long vacations and (hopefully) sometime spent not worrying about their businesses. If you want to make your summer season as stress-free as possible, we hope you’ll take our advice and pay attention to … Read More

For a lot of small and medium-sized businesses the hardest part about managing technology isn’t making computers, phones, and software work together – it’s devising a regular budget that makes sense. That’s because some IT expenses (like emergency repairs and equipment upgrades, for example) can seem to be unpredictable in their amounts and timing. IT budgeting doesn’t have to be … Read More