Managed IT service tips and planning guidance for small businesses, from tax-season readiness to day-to-day IT operations.
Break-fix bills by the hour after something breaks, while managed IT bills a flat monthly fee to keep it from breaking. VJNetworks managed plans start at $995 a month, and break-fix stops being the cheaper option once your repair hours pass that line. Every owner who calls me about this has already done the math … Read more
The controls a New York insurance agency owes under 23 NYCRR Part 500 are only half of a DFS examination, because the regulation also requires documentation proving each one, kept for five years. Every transitional period in the amended regulation has now closed. The last one expired November 1, 2025. There is no phase-in left … Read more
Windows Server 2016 stops receiving security updates on January 12, 2027. After that date your options are an in-place upgrade to Windows Server 2025, replacement hardware, a move to Azure, or paid Extended Security Updates. January 12, 2027 falls on a Tuesday. The second Tuesday of the month, which makes it Patch Tuesday, and that … Read more
A job site is a branch office that has to be switched on before the first crew arrives, then taken apart at closeout. Here is how the connection back to headquarters should actually be built.
Before filing season, ask your IT provider what your tax software will not run on, who owns your IRIS registration, how long a real restore takes, and what happens if the server dies on April 10. There is a version of this conversation that goes nowhere. The owner asks whether everything is ready for tax … Read more
Managed IT starts at $995 a month in Bergen County, with most small offices between $1,000 and $2,800. There is no New Jersey surcharge. Here is what actually moves the number.
The IT requirements on a government construction job arrive in the contract, not from a regulator, and on federal work they start with the fifteen safeguarding controls in FAR 52.204-21. State and local jobs add their own. New York changed its rules on January 1, 2026, and most contractors I talk to have not caught … Read more
Managed IT for a construction company starts around $995 a month and usually lands higher than an office-only business of the same headcount, because every active job site carries its own connectivity, devices, and support load. Most IT quotes price a company by seat count. That works when everyone sits in one building. It stops … Read more
A Microsoft 365 migration for a small business carries two separate costs, recurring licenses at $7 to $22 per user per month plus a one-time project fee scoped to mailbox count, data volume, and what you already have running. The license half you can price yourself in about four minutes flat. Microsoft publishes those numbers. … Read more
A CPA firm should expect managed IT to start at $995 a month and land in the upper half of the $1,000 to $2,800 range, because tax practices carry servers, regulated data, and seasonal headcount all at once. That is the short version. The longer version is that almost nobody quotes a CPA firm the … Read more
