Practical guidance for Kenyan businesses on IT cost, security, connectivity and the decisions that are easy to get wrong. Written by the engineers who run the systems, not a content farm.
Disaster recovery is one of those phrases that makes business owners glaze over, right up until the morning a server dies, or ransomware locks every file, or a fire takes out an office. Then…
Read the article →Buying CCTV and access control looks simple until you start, and then the quotes arrive and none of them compare. One vendor sells you cameras by the megapixel, another by the number of channels,…
Read the article →Every growing business reaches a point where its IT outgrows whatever arrangement got it this far. The one person who fixed everything is now overwhelmed, or the freelancer who used to drop by is…
Read the article →Slow office WiFi is one of those problems everyone accepts as normal until someone fixes it, and then they wonder how they put up with it for so long. People blame the internet provider,…
Read the article →Most Kenyan businesses that get hit by ransomware never say a word about it. They pay quietly, or they rebuild quietly, and they hope nobody finds out. That silence is part of the problem,…
Read the article →Your customers already live on WhatsApp. They use it to ask about your prices, chase their orders, send you documents and complain when something goes wrong. The opportunity is obvious, which is why every…
Read the article →Few IT decisions generate more confident, contradictory advice than the choice between on-premise and cloud. One vendor tells you the cloud will solve everything; the next insists your data must stay in the building.…
Read the article →Structured cabling is the part of your IT that you only think about when it fails, and by then it is expensive to fix. It is buried in walls, ceilings and risers, it is…
Read the article →An IT audit is one of the cheapest forms of insurance a Kenyan business can buy, and one of the most avoided. Owners put it off because they expect bad news, or because they…
Read the article →It is the question every business owner wants answered and almost no IT company in Kenya will answer on its website: what do managed IT services actually cost? The silence is deliberate. As long…
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