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In this final post of the series, we look at a few examples of the Enterprise taking the challenge of Consumer-driven IT head on.

The development of Consumer oriented technology over the past decade poses a significant challenge to the Enterprise. How will those challenges be met?

In our last post, we discussed a very brief history of Apple’s ascent as the leader in consumer-driven IT. In this article, I am going to draw a distinction between Consumer- and Enterprise- Driven IT. By looking at these differences, we will start to get a better understanding of where the IT sector is currently heading.

Nonprofits often struggle with planning and budgeting for IT expenses. Since IT often falls under overhead expenses, it is difficult to allocate funding for it. Johan Hammerstrom, COO, and Matthew Eshleman, CTO, talk about what you need to consider as you start to plan and budget for IT expenses.

In the first post of this series, I covered Apple’s early bet on the consumer space. Today I am going to discuss some of the specific technologies that highlight their development of Consumer-driven IT.

I just returned from the annual Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), which took place in Minneapolis from April 11-13. It was a wonderful experience and I had the privilege of presenting at a session on the future of IT.

Is your organization currently backing up data? If yes, how often is the data backed up? I did a webinar on March 21, where I shared what goes into creating effective data backups, and how we can help your organization create a smart backup strategy.

We never really know when a disaster will happen. We don’t know what kind of disaster it will be or how it will occur. Since disasters tend to be unpredictable, the best approach is to prepare and plan for disaster recovery. Information technology is a vital part of every organization, so IT disaster recovery should be considered as part of the overall business continuity plan.

The more we jumped into deliverables, the more we questioned our basic goals. And the more we looked at the metric reporting we started, the more interesting details were revealed.

Data backups are essential for all organizations in case of a disaster, not only a flood or fire, but also old equipment or accidental deletion by a user.
Matthew Eshleman, CTO at Community IT Innovators, shared what goes into creating effective data backups, and how Community IT Innovators can help your organization create a smart backup strategy. He also addressed the importance of knowing and understanding the Service Level Agreement (SLA) in order to develop an effective data backup and availability strategy.