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John Reilly is Managing Partner at Infradapt, LLC. Prior to joining Infradapt, he was the President of Vital IT Solutions, Inc., where among other roles, he developed a methodology and approach for performing risk and compliance assessments.



Prior to Infradapt, Mr. Reilly founded Vital IT Solutions, Inc., Mr. Reilly worked with Expanets, Inc., as a Senior Converged Account Executive, specializing in VoIP and Security, and a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on HIPAA. His Expanets’ achievements included national Sales awards including Millionaire’s Club and pioneering VoIP deployments for regional clients.

Mr. Reilly also has direct work experience in the banking industry, where he worked in Sales and Management, and in manufacturing, where he worked as an Accountant. John earned his BS in Accounting at Gwynedd-Mercy College, while also studying Negotiation, Decision Making, and Creative Problem Solving. He holds a SANS GIAC security certification and is a member of the Philadelphia Chapter of InfraGard.


 

Have You Built an IT Strategy that Fits Your Business?

Have You Built an IT Strategy that Fits Your Business?
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A business that relies on its technology to function needs to do more than make sure that this technology is able to sustain them. This technology should also be primed to help management and staff achieve their business goals.


An IT strategy is a plan that an organization uses to map out how technology should be leveraged and invested in. As a written document, it provides a guide that helps to organize the numerous considerations that an organization needs to take into account as they go about their business processes.

Developing an IT Strategy
Because of this, any complete IT strategy needs to include a variety of different considerations. This means it resembles a blueprint of your IT’s role in the rest of your business that gives your technology a trajectory to follow in the foreseeable future. To accomplish this, any IT strategy should include some reference to the following:

A Departmental Overview
It is important that your IT strategy acknowledges the department that will need to execute it. By identifying the motivating force behind your IT department and assigning objectives to it, you can get a better grasp on the nature of your company and its internal IT resources.

Record of Existing Resources
A key component of developing an effective IT strategy is to maintain a comprehensive and up-to-date record of any and all resources that your current IT has. This includes the pieces that make up your infrastructure, as well as what your IT department has to offer in terms of abilities and skills.

Future Focus
Your IT strategy also needs to account for changes that will most certainly come in the industry. This means it should include information on current budgets and initiatives, as well as spending forecasts, anticipated industry changes, and future projects.

SWOT Analysis
As you document your IT strategy, you should include an evaluation of your current IT’s strengths and weaknesses. This will help you to prioritize different elements in your strategy to make up for potential deficits. In addition, hypothesizing what opportunities you may encounter as IT solutions and processes advance, and anticipating the threats you may encounter as well.

Putting Your IT Strategy in Action
Once these considerations have been made, it’s time to turn your focus to actually enacting your IT strategy. Before you do anything else, you need to assess where your IT stands currently and establish the difference between where it is now and where you want it to be. Benchmarking and identifying the right key performance indicators will help to show you where your biggest IT deficits lie.

As a result, you can identify which of your short and long-term goals will be most useful to strive towards with this particular shift in your IT strategy. However, both you and your technology should be prepared to adjust to a sudden change in your IT strategy and the approach that your strategy informs.

The Importance of an IT Strategy
As the technology that a business leverages has become increasingly impactful upon that business’ success, it has become clear that business needs to have a strategy in mind to optimize it and improve their operations. Otherwise, that business may fall behind another that pays more attention to their technology solutions.

If needed, Infradapt can assist you in creating an IT strategy for your business, supporting you every step of the way. Give us a call at 800.394.2301 for more information.

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Preventing Identity Theft Should be a Priority, But Do You Know How to Handle It?

Preventing Identity Theft Should be a Priority, But Do You Know How to Handle It?

The more people use technology, the more they have to deal with the negative aspects of doing so. One of the most prevalent problems users experience today is cybercrime that leads to identity theft. What can you do to prevent this from happening to you?

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Android Ransomware Kits on the Rise

Android Ransomware Kits on the Rise

The do-it-yourselfers of the world have enjoyed the autonomy that the Internet brings into their lives. They can now look up how-to guides and YouTube videos on how to do just about anything. However, the Internet has also given hackers and other cybercriminals access to all sorts of technology that makes using malware and other threats easier than ever before--even for inexperienced users.

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Tip of the Week: How to Transfer Apps to a New Phone

Tip of the Week: How to Transfer Apps to a New Phone

There is little that is more satisfying than obtaining a new phone. However, this sense of satisfaction is often undermined by the need to get your applications and data to ensure that your new device has everything you normally use installed. For this week’s tip, we’ll go over a method of making this process easier on an Android phone.

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Your Business Absolutely Needs BDR

Your Business Absolutely Needs BDR

Have you ever wondered what it would take to knock your company out of business for good? It might surprise you if we said that, in theory, it doesn’t take much at all--perhaps a thunderstorm or a hacking attack to cause irreparable damage to your data infrastructure. Is your company prepared to handle any and all data loss incidents? With a business continuity plan and data backup, you’ll have as great a shot as ever to bounce back following a major disaster or data loss incident.


Most notably, a business continuity plan includes much more than just data backup and recovery. While these are certainly important, a business continuity plan includes other critical aspects of running a business, including keeping your staff and personnel safe, as well as having a communications infrastructure and a place to do business in. If you’re not taking these measures into account, you could be exposing your business in such a way that a very random event could knock you out of existence.

While all of the above aspects of business continuity are important, we’re going to focus on data backup and disaster recovery, or BDR. With BDR, you can ensure that your business can survive even the worst threats. Here are some of the major considerations you’ll need to think about regarding your data backup situation.

How Much Data are You Backing Up?
There is no such thing as having too much data backed up. You should be backing up all of your data, or as much as you possibly can. This is so that you never have to guess whether or not important information has been backed up. Even losing a small amount of data, like a couple of contacts, can be a major annoyance, as you will have to waste countless hours replacing the data that has been lost.

Tape backup might take complete backups of all your data, but it can only do so in a limited capacity due to how resource-intensive this process can be. A cloud-based BDR system can take backups much more frequently, and as a result, you’ll experience minimal data loss in the event of an incident. BDR only takes backups of files that have changed since the last backup was taken.

How Often are Backups Taken?
If your data isn’t taken often enough, you might encounter issues where data is lost due to the backups not being up to date. For example, a tape backup system only takes one backup, and it’s at the end of the day. Since the process is long and resource-intensive, it needs to happen after hours so that operations aren’t disturbed. Unfortunately, this leads to a situation where you could lose out on a lot of data and productivity, either due to an unforeseen loss incident or taking backups too often and causing downtime in the process.

Cloud-based BDR offers a great opportunity to help your business take advantage of much more frequent backups, all without sacrificing any uptime. Backups will only update files that have been altered, so more backups can be taken periodically throughout the workday--as often as every fifteen minutes. This helps you keep data loss to a minimum.

How Quickly Can You Restore Data?
You can’t waste any time when data loss is a problem. To minimize the damage done to your business, you’ll need to restore your resources and assets as quickly as possible. However, if you don’t have an office (or the technology to get back to work), this can be a problem. Tape backup can leave you without data for hours on end following a data loss incident, as it takes a considerable amount of time to restore. Your business can’t spare this time, and cloud-based BDR is the solution to this dilemma.

With Infradapt’s BDR, you’ll be able to restore your data directly to the BDR device rather than a spare server unit (assuming you have one in the first place). This keeps you focused on operations without having to worry about replacing your hardware immediately. You can minimize downtime and keep your business in proper working order, even when the world is stacked against you.

Do you want to ensure your business can survive even the most poorly-timed data loss incident? Infradapt can help you implement a data backup and disaster recovery solution that preserves your business’ data incrementally and efficiently. To learn more, reach out to us at 800.394.2301.

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