Small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) may wonder just how much time and money they need to invest in business continuity and disaster recovery. Especially when headlines so often focus on the breaches affecting large enterprises. In fact, malicious attacks are often conducted against smaller businesses because hackers see them as low-hanging fruit or as a gateway to the bigger enterprises those businesses work alongside. For many SMBs, outsourcing to an IT security services provider can help address these concerns.

As the impact of cloud computing expands throughout business organizations, many find it sensible to outsource portions of their IT to a managed cloud services provider. Outsourcing involves moving management of cloud solutions and technical support to a provider as a pathway to enhanced business operations.

Once you’ve decided that it makes sense to outsource an area of IT, the next challenge is to choose the right managed cloud services provider. The expertise and offerings of these providers vary widely, with some only supporting a proprietary infrastructure. Others have claimed this expertise to gain a portion of the managed services market without actually having the skills [...]