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Develop a Technology Usage Agreement for your staff. Include compliance issues such as inappropriate web surfing, data or music downloading policy and data confidentiality. Prohibit visiting website categories known to house viruses such as torrent sites, gambling and file sharing sites.
2
Create a comprehensive technology plan. This plan should address systematic replacement of aging workstations and ways to evaluate emerging technologies. It should provide a basic map of how your information system will run today and in the future taking in account the rapidly changing nature of the industry.
3
Contact your Internet Service Provider to investigate increasing your bandwidth. Often increasing bandwidth makes multitasking much easier and reduces application hangups caused by slow updating. Consider ISP redundancy if you have repeated downtime from your primary carrier.
4
Consult with one of the many firms who provide off-site storage for your key documents and databases. This service is typically easy to install and provides you with easy disaster recovery should you have a major system issue or virus.
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Consider "software as a service" options for functions such as word processing, email and customer relationship management. This service provides web-based versions of solutions you typically install on each workstation. The service makes data more available throughout your shop and at your home.
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Utilize free software to free up your technology budget to upgrade machines faster. Many companies such as Google, Sun and Adobe add free services entice customers to remain brand-loyal.
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Schedule periodic maintenance downtime. Your Information Technologies employee or company should manage updates, scan for viruses and examine error logs during this scheduled downtime to prevent data loss or system outages.
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