Moving to a new office space is one of the most exciting and most stressful times in the life of any small business. The potential of a new space presents lucrative opportunities for growth. At the same time, the interruption that a move creates can be expensive, time consuming, and filled with unknowns.
Topics: Startup
In the rush to get your laboratory online, your offices equipped, and your experiments initiated, it can be difficult to honestly evaluate your IT needs. But once you start setting up computers, installing software and dealing with ballooning data storage, you will understand how important it is to have biotech startup IT expertise on your side.
Topics: IT Outsourcing, IT Support, Biotechnology Startup, Startup
The choice of a managed services provider (MSP) to handle your information technology (IT) is an important one. IT is both complicated and essential for your business, no matter what industry you work in. The job of any managed services provider is to make computing as easy and flexible at a predictable cost as possible so that your IT works for you and not the other way around.
There are a number of factors to consider when selecting an MSP. Take an honest evaluation of your company's IT needs, and then start to think about what your ideal IT service provider would look like. Every small business will have different requirements, but no matter what yours are or who you choose to work with, be sure that your MSP offers the following services and features.
Topics: IT Outsourcing, Small Business IT Support, IT Support, SMB, Managed Services, Hybrid MSP, IT partners, Startup
Data security is one of the most important and most often neglected aspects of small business IT. Companies assume that because they are small and have relatively limited financial assets, they can get by with simple data security measures often amounting to little more than anti-virus protection.
Topics: IT Support, IT Security, Data Security, SMB, Managed Services, Startup, Cloud, ITO