There’s no denying that as a new business at the height of the digital revolution, data is going to play a significant part in your long-term success. Even if you operate primarily as an offline business, your customer records, accounts, and even your marketing efforts will require at least some level of digitally stored data. As such, in an age when GDPR reigns supreme and end-users are both more data-savvy and protective about what happens to the information you hold about them, data backup is not something that even the smallest of new startups can afford to ignore. Yet ignore it; many of t ..read more

In this day and age, nobody can dispute the importance of having a reliable and secure solution for backing up your valuable data. Yet, as a business owner, shopping around for that method can soon turn into a complicated nightmare as you’re faced with a wealth of different solutions, each one with its pros, cons, and terminology. Even once you’ve determined that Backup as a Service (BaaS Solutions) and Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS Solutions) are the most likely candidates for protecting your precious data, that still leaves more questions than it answers. Namely: What exactly are Ba ..read more

Whichever way we look at it, things are never quite going to be the same again after 2020-21. COVID-19 has forever altered the business landscape, and those who thrive in the coming years are those who will have most successfully adapted to the “new normal.” Still, navigating through this new way of working while still trying to maintain some semblance of business-as-usual can seem like an almost impossible challenge for some businesses. That’s where we come in. As the leading IT consultancy in London, Pacific Infotech have recently launched a brand new online platform to help London’s busines ..read more

Finding a quality endpoint security solution is never the easiest of tasks. With a wealth of options out there, finding just one that adequately helps businesses tackle the unique challenges they face and providing sufficient, all-round protection at the same time can sometimes seem impossible. That’s where SentineOne comes in. Here at Pacific Infotech, we’ve put this powerful and versatile security solution to work not only on our in-house systems but also to over 500 endpoints for our clients. In today’s guide, we look at why we chose this solution over the many others out there, how it cont ..read more

All businesses these days are focussed on trying to survive the coronavirus crisis. However, most of this has been about setting up a work-from-home infrastructure, putting appropriate business continuity measures in place, and doing all they can to come out of this with their business still intact. Yet while everyone is focussed on the day to day, opportunistic cybercriminals are taking advantage of the distraction caused by Covid-19 in order to strike. Cybersecurity During the Coronavirus Crisis: The Problem Action Fraud, a crime detection unit, has received 21 reports of fraud where corona ..read more

Over the past several weeks, the world-wide coronavirus pandemic has turned working-from-home from something of a luxury enjoyed by a small percentage of the global workforce to an outright necessity. Until recently, some 44% of companies around the world allowed no remote working at all. This is despite 86% percent of remote workers saying it reduces stress, with companies that do allow remote work having 25% lower employee turnover than those that don’t. Now, however, social distancing measures and self-isolation practices mean that more people are working from home than ever before. While t ..read more

The global Covid-19 pandemic finds us at an unprecedented time in history, one that even the most in-depth of business continuity strategies couldn’t have fully predicted nor prepared for. The impact of this international crisis has been so sudden and yet so far-reaching that even the UK enters its third week in lockdown, many businesses are still scrambling to adjust amidst worrying reports that the coronavirus could force them to close down for good. The impact of the Covid-19 outbreak has seen many businesses struggling to maintain their day-to-day operation. With these business continui ..read more

According to House of Commons library, the total number of private sector businesses in the UK is estimated to be 5.7 million in 2018, and they are all SME’s (small and medium-sized enterprises). They constitute over 99% of all the business. Any business keeping fewer than 250 employees is an SME. And there are around 8,000 large business houses with more than 250 employees in the UK. They account for just 0.1% of businesses but 40% of employment and 48% of turnover. The percentage of micro-businesses with 0-9 employees is estimated at around 5.4 million in the UK. According to the latest s ..read more

As your business continues to evolve to meet the needs of modern customers, you find yourself on more than one occasion confronted by a common dilemma among SMEs: To invest in out of hours IT support or not? On the one hand, a number of your fellow business owners frequently talk about what a game-changer it’s been for them whenever you get together at your monthly networking meeting. Yet on the other, the unique nature of your business means you just can’t see how doing so is going to benefit you. Here’s the thing: There’s no easy answer to this quandary. For a select few, out of hours IT sup ..read more

There’s no escaping it. From retail to finance and everywhere in between, digital transformation is on an unstoppable role through a broad cross section of modern industries, including hospitality. After all, guests well accustomed to today’s always-connected, on-demand society expect not only the usual 24/7 service they’ve grown used to in other industries, but also the kind of luxury experiences they simply can’t access in even the most tech-heavy homes. With that in mind, those in the hospitality industry simply have no choice but to evolve and adapt if they’re to remain competitive. Yet wi ..read more