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Many small and medium-sized businesses rely heavily on their IT networks, but do not always take adequate steps to safeguard them. System crashes, data corruption and other problems can have disastrous consequences and could even cause a business to fail completely.
Buying the equipment and applications is only the start of your investment in IT. Throughout the life of any system, the cost of maintaining hardware and software will form a significant part of the total cost of ownership.
You have decided what you need to computerise (see What should I computerise?, IT 5) and you know what you want to buy. The next decision is how to purchase it.
Sooner or later most businesses invest in IT. The challenge is to minimise the cost and upheaval, while making leaps in efficiency.
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