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5 Reasons Location Matters When Choosing an MSP

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5 Reasons Location Matters When Choosing an MSP

It's tempting to believe that, in this age of connectivity, the location of your managed service provider (MSP) is irrelevant. With remote support capabilities, an MSP on the other side of the globe can seemingly offer the same level of service as...

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Navigating Growth: Five Signs You’ve Outgrown Your Current Managed Service Provider

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Navigating Growth: Five Signs You’ve Outgrown Your Current Managed Service Provider

As your organization evolves, so do its technological demands. Identifying when your current MSP no longer meets these changing needs is key to...

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6 Ways IT Mismanagement Stifles Business Growth

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6 Ways IT Mismanagement Stifles Business Growth

In the rapidly evolving landscape of modern business, the role of IT has outgrown the idea that it’s simply a support function. It’s now a driver of...

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The Integral Role of IT Management in Business Strategy: How Size Matters

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The Integral Role of IT Management in Business Strategy: How Size Matters

Information Technology is often the heartbeat of an organization, fueling its operations and future ambitions. When strategizing the role of IT...

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Streamlining Employee On-boarding and Off-boarding with an MSP: IT Considerations and Benefits

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Streamlining Employee On-boarding and Off-boarding with an MSP: IT Considerations and Benefits

The on-boarding and off-boarding of employees are integral processes that demand meticulous planning and execution. The Information Technology team...

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Why Sagiss Doesn't Offer "All You Can Eat" Contracts: Putting Service First

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Why Sagiss Doesn't Offer "All You Can Eat" Contracts: Putting Service First

In the dynamic world of IT managed services, finding the perfect balance between service quality, client satisfaction, and business sustainability is...

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How Sagiss Crafts the Perfect Managed Services Contract to Fit Your Business

At the heart of any successful engagement with an IT managed service provider (MSP) is the contract that details the scope of work. The Statement of...

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Break-Fix vs. Managed Service Provider: What Is Right for Your Business?

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Infrastructure as a Service: A Growing Force in Cloud Computing

Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offers a flexible, scalable, and cost-efficient solution to simplify the complexity of managing IT infrastructure....

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MSPs Are Key to Unlocking IT Network Agility for Business

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MSPs Are Key to Unlocking IT Network Agility for Business

Agile has become a buzzword in business circles for some time now and for good reason. Agile organizations outperform their peers by as much as 50%...

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Overcoming IT Complexity During Mergers and Acquisitions

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Overcoming IT Complexity During Mergers and Acquisitions

When two people get married and buy a house, they have to figure out which furniture to move in, what items to keep, what things to get rid of, and...

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The Internet of Things (IoT) Creates Benefits, Challenges, and Opportunities for Businesses

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The Internet of Things (IoT) Creates Benefits, Challenges, and Opportunities for Businesses

The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the fastest areas of growth in IT. The market for IoT devices was valued at $544 billion in 2022 and is...

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Break-Fix vs. Managed Service Provider: What Is Right for Your Business?

In the not-too-distant past, when something broke, you’d call in someone to repair it and wait for the repair to happen. That may have been fine when...

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7 Questions You Should Ask an MSP Before Hiring Them to Migrate You to the Cloud

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7 Questions You Should Ask an MSP Before Hiring Them to Migrate You to the Cloud

Cloud migration is more complex than it might seem at first. Companies often find that out the hard way.

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Need Top IT Talent? Look No Further Than Sagiss

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Need Top IT Talent? Look No Further Than Sagiss

With all the layoffs in the tech sector making news these days, you’d think there might be readily-available talents to fill all the open IT jobs....

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Talking Tech: Translating Technology for Understanding

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Talking Tech: Translating Technology for Understanding

Has this ever happened to you? As a business leader, you ask what seems like a simple question, and you get a long-winded answer that uses a lot of...

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Effective IT Should Be Unnoticed

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Effective IT Should Be Unnoticed

IT infrastructure is the backbone of nearly every business. Reliability, resiliency and security are key to success and productivity. When the system...

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What You Get When Working With Sagiss

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What You Get When Working With Sagiss

IT systems today are incredibly complex. We depend on them to run our businesses, but what happens when something breaks down?

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How to Adopt a Managed Services Mentality

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How to Adopt a Managed Services Mentality

Businesses of all sizes are looking for ways to streamline processes and reduce expenses without sacrificing quality or reliability. Utilizing...

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Why You Need an MSP That Is Cyber Verified

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Why You Need an MSP That Is Cyber Verified

The managed service provider (MSP) you choose to work with is a significant decision. You need to be able to trust they can provide the services you...

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The SOC 2 Audit Process and Why it Matters

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The SOC 2 Audit Process and Why it Matters

In the past year, cybercriminals have escalated their attacks on companies. Cyberattacks have reached an all-time high and they have become more...

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What Is a Virtual CIO and How Can a vCIO Help Your Business Grow?

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What Is a Virtual CIO and How Can a vCIO Help Your Business Grow?

Business leaders focus on running things smoothly, maximizing profits, and delivering the bottom line. Yet, there are so many things that can be...

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What Makes Sagiss Different from Other Managed Service Providers (MSPs)

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What Makes Sagiss Different from Other Managed Service Providers (MSPs)

Managing IT is a significant challenge for small and medium-sized companies. Most can’t afford to hire an IT team or Chief Information Officer, staff...

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Using Multifactor Authentication? Beware of MFA Fatigue and MFA Spamming

Multifactor authentication (MFA) is an effective tool for stopping unauthorized access to networks and websites, even if passwords are compromised....

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Disaster Recover Service Sagiss

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Disaster Recovery as a Service: A Necessity, Not a “Nice-To-Have”

It’s interesting how ancient stories can remain relevant across millennia: despite having made huge strides as a species, humanity continues to...

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Public vs Private Cloud

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Public Vs Private Cloud

Most of us have taken lessons of some sort — pottery, coding, cello, or public speaking. Let’s say you’re interested in learning more about rock...

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Think before you click

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Think before you click

People often look to sophisticated tools for security solutions.

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Remote managed IT services

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Remote managed IT services - How do they work?

One question we often get concerns the benefits of remote managed IT vs. on-site support.

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Fractional CIO

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Is a fractional CIO a good fit for your business?

Businesses have an endless list of needs but may not have the resources to satisfy all their needs in-house. That's why many businesses outsource...

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MSP vs MSSP - What are the differences?

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MSP vs MSSP - What are the differences?

The masses are often confused by the terms "MSP" and "MSSP". They may think there's no difference because the two are differentiated only by an extra...

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Security is a team effort

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Security is a team effort

In decades past, job responsibilities were reserved for specific departments. One department had one type of people who performed one type of task.

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Security dos and don'ts

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Security dos and don'ts

Solid security is, in many ways, complicated. Fortunately, there are a few basics you can follow to tighten up your security right away and get high...

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What is threatware?

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What is threatware?

Threatware is not a common term, so you may think it's a new class of cyber threat. But threatware is an umbrella term including many common security...

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Types of data storage

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The 4 most common types of data storage

The world runs on data. And businesses now have access to more data than ever before. But where and how do businesses store that data? In this post,...

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Co-managed IT

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The benefits of co-managed IT

When most people think of outsourced or managed IT, they likely think of fully-managed IT. With fully-managed IT, you rely on a managed service...

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Microsoft Edge is the best web browser for business

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Why Microsoft Edge is the best web browser for business

Microsoft Edge recently passed Safari as second place in the desktop browser wars. But Edge should hold the top spot as the web browser for business.

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Microsoft end-of-life survival kit

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Microsoft end-of-life survival kit

Nothing good lasts forever. Even Microsoft products.

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Internal policies

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Why internal policies are crucial for managed security success

Once upon a time, good security amounted to little more than protecting your perimeter to keep threat actors out of your networks. But now, with the...

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What is the cost of a data breach?

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What is the cost of a data breach?

Year after year, data breaches are getting more expensive.

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Pros and cons of BYOD

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Pros and cons of BYOD

Businesses are always looking for ways to save money. Rather than buy more devices for their employees, some businesses implement BYOD programs.

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What is emotet?

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What is emotet?

Emotet, one of the worst security threats ever created, originated in 2014 as malware that intercepted internet traffic and harvested sensitive...

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Security red flags

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10 security red flags to avoid

Sometimes you hear a piece of advice so harmful that it grates your ears like nails on a chalkboard. You might call such advice "red flags."

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IT troubleshooting basics

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IT troubleshooting basics

Any time you have an issue, you may be tempted to jump to the most dire conclusions. It's easy to do with technology: Your device isn't working as...

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NTLM

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Disabling NTLM, The Sagiss Way

To increase security, we are disabling NTLM (NT LAN Manager) for our clients.

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