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Managed services agreements for IT are priced on a recurring basis.

Many technology investments that fail to get approved are sound decisions presented badly. The proposal leads with features and capabilities that the technical team finds compelling and that the budget-conscious executive finds irrelevant.

IT investment proposals often fail in finance reviews not because the investment is wrong, but because the case is built in the wrong language.

Handling IT internally looks free until you add it up.

How to Plan a Cloud Migration When Your Team Is Already Stretched The timing of a cloud migration is almost never ideal.

Moving from on-premise infrastructure to the cloud is one of the highest-risk IT projects a business can undertake, because the window for error is narrow and the consequences of a poorly planned migration are visible to everyone.

The Disaster Recovery Plan That Most SMBs Don't Have Until It's Too Late Most small and mid-sized businesses do not have a disaster recovery plan. Most should have backups, but few will have tested those backups.

Most technology decisions are reversible with enough time and budget. Software platforms can be replaced, processes can be redesigned, and vendor relationships can be terminated. But infrastructure decisions are different.

The default answer for infrastructure decisions in the past several years has been: move everything to the cloud.

  Cloud services were supposed to make technology more cost-effective for smaller businesses. (And they still can, with the right conditions.) But for a significant number of SMBs, the cloud has become a growing line item that delivers a fraction of the value it is priced for.