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A truism is a statement that is so obviously true that it doesn’t need to be said. “Technology is important for doing business in 2018”? That’s a truism if there’s ever been one.

But there are still far too many small- to medium-sized companies that haven’t yet recognized the major opportunities that the latest tech can bring their way.

A business doesn’t need to be sitting on information with world-altering implications, like nuclear launch codes or an unreleased episode of Game of Thrones, to draw the attention of hackers and hostile bots.

Not long ago, we workedwith a local auto body shop here in New Jersey that went the wrong kind of viral online.

The 2018 Winter Olympics are underway in South Korea, and cybersecurity professionals in PyeongChang and elsewhere are working overtime to combat the elevated potential for cyberattacks. With thousands of tourists, athletes and celebrities in PyeongChang all using their smartphones and accessing Wi-Fi networks, hackers from Russia, North Korea, and other regions are certain to take notice.

If your company has been around for a while, you know what a headache technology can sometimes be. In the past, you could look forward to every new version of Windows bringing a new generation of software that required ever more resources. Within only a couple of years, every computer in your office would be obsolete and in need of replacement.

IT security is a battlefield on which you can never rest. Your company may have already eliminated all of the most common IT security weaknesses by taking steps such as installing security software, educating employees about the best security practices and investing in an automatic cloud-based backup solution.

Have you ever had a negative experience when trying to get support for a technical issue? With tech companies around the world doing everything possible to stay lean and mean, outsourcing tech support to third-party providers has become a standard business practice.

What Are Your Company's Digital New Year's Resolutions for 2018?
The year is nearly over. You worked hard to grow your business in 2017, and we hope that your company is now healthier and more profitable than ever. It's likely that you have already begun to plan the things that will help foster further growth in 2018. As you consider your company's resolutions for the new year, we hope that you won't neglect the digital side of your operations.

If you managed to find the time to read the technology blogs in 2017, you know that news about major data breaches and the growth of cloud computing dominated the headlines. We predict that little will change about the nature of the tech headlines in 2018.

Cloud computing won't just continue to grow at a rapid pace; it'll become an indispensable part of most businesses' tech strategies.

Would you be surprised about to learn that technology is an incredibly important asset to those in the coffee business? You might consider a small, cozy coffee shop to be in minimal need of a robust technology infrastructure but ask James Freeman, the founder of Blue Bottle Coffee based out of Oakland, California and you’ll get a very different perspective.

Legacy technology has such a nice ring to it, right? We all want to leave a legacy in this life, but in the world of small and medium-sized business technology, legacy has a different connotation – and it’s not always a good thing.

If you’ve ever sprained your eyeballs from rolling them in the back of your head when that piece of company software that everyone must use goes on the fritz – you’ve experienced the downside of legacy technology.