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Technical guides on managed IT, sovereign cloud, cybersecurity, compliance (Law 25, GDPR), migration and AI.

Compliance

Law 25: a compliance guide for Quebec SMBs

A practical Law 25 compliance guide for Quebec SMBs: privacy officer, incident register, privacy impact assessment, secu...

Cloud

Sovereign cloud vs public cloud: which to choose?

Sovereign cloud or public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)? A technical comparison for Quebec and France: sovereignty, Law 25 and...

Managed IT

Managed IT or an in-house team: which to choose?

Outsourced managed IT or an in-house IT team? A comparison of real costs, 24/7 coverage, risks and decision criteria for...

Hosting

Choosing your managed hosting

Private cloud, dedicated server or hybrid? A technical guide to choosing managed hosting suited to your applications, av...

Continuity

Disaster recovery plan (DRP): the checklist

A technical checklist to build a disaster recovery plan (DRP): RTO, RPO, immutable backups, restore testing and business...

Security

Protecting an SMB against ransomware

How to protect an SMB against ransomware: EDR, immutable backups, network segmentation, MFA and a response plan. Concret...

Security

MFA and access management: the practical guide

A practical guide to multi-factor authentication (MFA) and access management in business: choosing the second factor, le...

Continuity

The 3-2-1 backup strategy: a concrete guide

The 3-2-1 backup rule explained: three copies, two media, one off-site. Concrete implementation, immutability, automatio...

Migration

Zero-downtime cloud migration: the method

A methodology for migrating to the cloud without service interruption: audit, target architecture, wave migration, repli...

Agencies

Managed WordPress hosting for web agencies

Managed WordPress hosting for web agencies: performance, security, managed updates and white label. Offer reliable hosti...

Agencies

White label for web agencies: the model

White-label hosting for web agencies: how it works, benefits, recurring revenue, and the difference with classic reselli...

Compliance

GDPR: hosting and obligations for businesses

GDPR and hosting: business obligations, data location, data processing agreement (DPA), transfers outside the EU and sov...

AI

Bringing AI into the enterprise: RAG on your data

RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) explained: making AI answer from your own documents, with sources and privacy. Arch...

AI

Automation with AI agents: use cases for SMBs

AI agents to automate business tasks: the difference with an assistant, SMB use cases, tool integration, guardrails and ...

Hosting

High availability and SLA: understanding 99.9%

SLA and high availability explained: what 99.9% uptime means in hours, the cost of each nine, redundancy and how to nego...