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Do you remember a time in which a company could do business outside the boundaries of its city without having a website? Neither do we. The web has been an integral part of the business landscape for so long that it's hard to remember things being any other way.

Over the past two decades, the Internet has changed business in two fundamental ways. The first change is the advent of online commerce. Since a consumer can order almost any type of product online and have it delivered to his or her door, folks have been able to save time visiting brick-and-mortar stores.

In 2016, boot maker Lucchese fired its IT administrator. An hour later, the company's servers stopped working. The former IT administrator had used a hidden account -- meant to look like a network printer -- to access the network remotely and delete system files from the servers.

Going "green" is the right decision for many companies -- and since consumption of electricity is one of the biggest contributors to any company's carbon footprint, your IT department provides ample opportunities for reducing your impact on the environment.

Not long ago, installing antivirus software was all that most businesses needed to do to protect themselves from malicious software. When you initially connected your business's computers to the Internet, you probably felt sufficiently safe with a firewall in place.

Happy birthday, iPhone! Ten years ago this week -- on June 29, 2007 -- Apple released the product that would change its fortunes forever. Announcing the iPhone in his 2007 Macworld keynote speech, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs promised that the company would "reinvent the phone" -- and the iPhone has done exactly that.

Did you have trouble finding the time to catch up on the latest tech news during the past couple of months? Never fear -- we've collected the top four tech headlines from the last two months and summarized them here. In this roundup of tech headlines, we've got the details of the first teraflop processor ever for desktop computers.

According to a 2016 Munich Re poll, up to 90 percent of United States businesses fall victim to hackers each year. Businesses don't suffer security breaches because they aren't trying to protect themselves; they simply lack the expertise necessary to protect an organization from modern hacking techniques.

It's impossible to read the tech news these days without seeing a report of a new ransomware attack. The recent spread of a new form of ransomware called WannaCry, though, has captured the public's imagination -- perhaps because of how rapidly it infected computers within the first few days of its release.

Do you have a small business that's growing? Does your business's IT structure still have a startup mentality? For a modern business, IT is everything -- no matter what industry you're in. If you haven't updated your IT structure to position your business for growth, your IT structure may actually be holding you back.