Practical advice for business owners and IT decision makers: backup, servers, virtualization, networking, security and business email — explained without the jargon.
A NAS keeps your files in one reliable place. That is storage, not backup — and the difference only becomes obvious on the day you need to recover something.
Read article : Is a NAS a backup? What business owners need to knowThree copies, two kinds of storage, one off site. It is an old rule of thumb, and it still maps neatly onto how a small business should protect its data.
Read article : 3-2-1 backup, explained for small businessesAccounting data is the least replaceable thing most businesses own. Here is a practical way to plan its backup, including the parts specific to Tally and similar applications.
Read article : How to plan backup for Tally and other business dataBoth run your servers as virtual machines. The real decision is about licensing, in-house skills, support expectations and what your applications need.
Read article : Proxmox or VMware: what a small business should considerAge alone is a poor reason. Warranty status, failing disks, an unsupported operating system and a workload that has outgrown the hardware are much better ones.
Read article : When should you replace your business server?Port-forwarding remote desktop is the quickest way to let staff work from home, and one of the most common ways small businesses get compromised. There are better options that take about as long to set up.
Read article : Why opening RDP directly to the Internet is a bad ideaOne flat network is how most offices start. Segmenting it with VLANs makes the network safer, easier to troubleshoot and noticeably more predictable.
Read article : Why office networks should separate staff, CCTV and guest devicesAll three give you mail on your own domain and work well. The choice usually comes down to the rest of the tools your team uses, the budget per user, and how mail is administered.
Read article : Business email: Microsoft 365, Google Workspace or Zoho?Send it to an engineer. We'd rather give you a straight answer than a sales call.