Datalyst Blog

In the wake of Hurricane Beryl, businesses have another reason to reflect on data backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity. Since the hurricane made landfall in Texas, despite being downgraded to a tropical storm, it still caused over $5 million in damage to islands across middle America.

If you feel like you have too many browser tabs open at any given time, then you'll be happy to know that you can sometimes save certain browser tabs as a standalone application on your device. This will give them their own icon and make accessing them much easier than constantly navigating to them through your web browser.

Facebook remains one of the most visited places on the Internet. Meta (the parent company to Facebook) also features WhatsApp and Instagram on their roster and has faced numerous security and privacy failings over the years. In this week’s blog, we’ll take a brief look at some of the most noteworthy.

Does it feel like your business is outgrowing your IT company? As if your technology were a bottleneck, holding you back, when the whole point of technology is to pave the way forward?

You aren’t alone.

Small businesses are reliant on IT, and in turn that sort of shackles the small business to whoever they hire to consult and support their technology. That could be an in-house person, or more than likely, an outsourced IT company.

But just like how some pizza places are better than others, not all IT companies are going to get your business the same results, especially as you scale and your demands increase.

Windows Defender is Microsoft’s own antivirus solution, and it comes bundled with Windows, so it’s confusing to think that a business would need to pay for it, right? Well, there are actually two separate products called Defender, with a big difference between them.