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Disaster recovery and business continuity planning should be considered a critical aspect of running a business. However, many organisations disregard it completely. Others have some kind of plan in place, but fail to grasp how time consuming the recovery process can be and the associated cost of downtime.

Not all IT service providers stress security as much as they need to. This not only leaves their own firm at risk it can leave their customers at risk as well.

Mobile use for work has gone beyond being a convenience to being vital to today’s WFH based environments. This means a formalized BYOD policy is more important than ever

Microsoft Small Business Server 2011 (SBS 2011) was released in December 2010 and has been incredibly reliable since then. But all good things come to an end and in January 2020, SBS 2011 reached "End of Life".

There are a number of challenges facing Australian businesses due to the pandemic when it comes to returning to a physical office space.

Microsoft Teams and SharePoint are both applications that pack a lot of productivity and collaboration power.

While moving to a completely remote workforce during pandemic shutdown orders was a sudden change that disrupted business operations in Australia and throughout the world, the adjustment back to offices is not quite as absolute or sudden.

The COVID-19 pandemic has not only disrupted life as we know it for months, it has changed business in its wake into a new hybrid model of office and remote working. As companies return to the workplace, they’re adjusting to this new altered reality.

Images help tell a compelling story in your sales, marketing, and presentation materials. They can also be cumbersome and confusing to manage if you don’t have a good system in place.

An old favorite from Microsoft just received a new name change that impacts its SMB and home subscriptions. After debuting in 2011 and leading the cloud office transition, Office 365 has been renamed to Microsoft 365.

NetCare Backup Success provides automated backup service for Microsoft 365, allowing you to easily recover accidentally or maliciously deleted data across Microsoft Exchange Online, OneDrive, Teams, SharePoint , Emails, Calendars and Contacts.

Do you have slow computers in your office that take ages to start up and that slow to a crawl whenever there's more than 1 or 2 apps running?

Have you noticed a problem with any of your email newsletters or CRM messages getting blocked recently? Or perhaps you’ve had a problem receiving email from a customer and having it go straight to a quarantine or junk folder?

Now that we're working from home and reducing visits to our customers, we need a new way to sign off on documents. It has become much more complicated to get people together, and as a result important contracts can be left in limbo waiting on a signature.

How many documents does your business create on a daily basis? It can really add up once you start counting all the word processing and spreadsheet files, marketing files, and emails.

Team messaging platforms have become especially popular with the growth of remote workforces. This is especially true during the changes brought about by the global pandemic, which have focused on social distancing.

Many businesses in Sydney and beyond have been on a cloud adoption mission over the last 5-10 years, as they ditch their on-premises platforms for more affordable and flexible cloud services

The new normal for almost all of our customers is to have at least 50% of their employees now working from home. For many, it's over 80% (Netcare for example).
Given the immediate rush to move everyone to some sort of remote working arrangement has passed, the next priority is to circle back around and make sure that our rapid introduction of work-from-home solutions hasn't compromised our business security.

Many of our customers are now running the 3CX VoIP based phone system. Yealink is our recommended brand of handsets because they're 3CX certified, they're good value for money and  they've got a good range of products to suit different business needs.

Keeping up with the latest technologies can be very difficult, but there are two technologies that should definitely not be ignored, as they will have a significant impact on the way a lot of businesses operate in the next ten years – 5G and AI.

NetCare wish to reassure our customers that business will continue as normal. We remain fully open and will continue to supply goods and services as we have in the past with a few work practice adjustments

Cloud security has become a major concern of those both using and providing cloud services. Data breaches are happening at an increasing rate around the world as hackers find new ways to exploit popular services, like Microsoft 365.

Cloud solutions have steadily been taking over as the main way that businesses access data and processes. This transformation has been particularly empowering for small businesses by lowering the cost of entry for productivity tools and enabling more collaborative and mobile workflows.

Whether from cyber-attack or natural disaster, using Disaster Recovery as a Service can mitigate the downtime for a company and make all the difference when it comes to bouncing back quickly after a downtime crisis, or never being able to fully recover.