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Information Technology (IT)
IT is the umbrella term for technologies that facilitate information processing. IT can include software, hardware, networking resources, communications technologies, and other services. SMBs might manage this technology in-house, or they might choose to outsource IT to a managed service provider (MSP) or another professional. IT infrastructure might exist on-premise or in a cloud environment.
What Small and Midsize Businesses Need to Know About Information Technology (IT)
An SMB might invest in IT to grow its business, increase data processing and storage, automate manual tasks, and improve compliance with data governance frameworks.
Related terms
- Haptics
- WAN (Wide-Area Network)
- Intranet
- SLO (Service-Level Objective)
- Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
- Scalability
- Service-Level Agreement (SLA)
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Data Center
- Augmented Reality (AR)
- Synchronous
- Multitenancy
- Chief Information Officer (CIO)
- IT Services
- Authorization
- Service-oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Managed Service Provider (MSP)
- Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
