--- title: "Small and Medium-Sized Businesses are Using Enterprise Technology - Blogs on IT Support and Cybersecurity for Small Business" description: "Need #1: SecurityIn order to be successful, a business needs to have the security necessary to protect its resources. The first step to accomplishing that, is to identify any weaknesses in its infrastructure through a preliminary IT evaluation known" url: "https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/small-and-medium-sized-businesses-are-using-enterprise-technology-1" date: "2026-06-09T13:03:29+00:00" language: "en-GB" --- ## Blogs on IT Support and Cybersecurity for Small Business Insights on cybersecurity, AI, and IT strategy to help business leaders reduce risk, improve performance, and make better technology decisions. [ Categories ](https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/categories "Categories") [ Tags ](https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/tags "Tags") [ Categories: All Categories ](https://colemantechnologies.com/javascript:void(0); "Categories") Search...Suggested keywords [ x ](https://colemantechnologies.com/javascript:void(0);) # Small and Medium-Sized Businesses are Using Enterprise Technology [Technology](https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/categories/technology) [Best practices](https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/categories/best-practices) [Small Business](https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/categories/small-business) [Coleman Technologies Admin](https://colemantechnologies.com/blog/blogger/darren-coleman) Tuesday, 24 June 2025 ## Need #1: Security In order to be successful, a business needs to have the security necessary to protect its resources. The first step to accomplishing that, is to identify any weaknesses in its infrastructure through a preliminary IT evaluation known as an IT risk assessment. This assessment can reveal where a business is the most vulnerable. At that point, these flaws can be mitigated using tools like firewalls, antivirus, and multi-factor authentication - tools that either SMBs or enterprises can (and do) use. With SMBs increasing their use of [cloud](https://www.colemantechnologies.com/download-cloud-whitepaper/ "cloud") services, a large portion of this process should be fulfilled by the cloud provider. However, the business leveraging the [cloud](https://www.colemantechnologies.com/it-services/cloud-computing-services/cloud-it-solutions "cloud") provider needs to make sure that the provider they have selected is able to uphold what they have promised as part of their service-level agreement. If this is the case, the SMB could find themselves in the position to leverage enterprise-caliber security solutions, for a cost that fits their budget. ## Need #2: Data Storage While their budgets put enterprise businesses in a much more favorable position to create an infrastructure that can contend with their operational needs, this is not to say that SMBs are left without any options. Any good data storage solution will perform well based on a few benchmarks: how well it works, how often it works, how easily it can be accessed, and how easily its contents can be searched. The enterprise business has quite a few options to leverage, such as data tiering (where data of differing importance is stored on different servers) and higher-performing data storage solutions. If this is starting to sound expensive, it is - but again, thanks to the cloud, SMBs aren’t left without options, either. With scalable Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service being available for a much more affordable rate, SMBs are able to leverage the advanced tools that would otherwise only be available to corporate-level businesses. Interested in leveraging some of these capabilities in your business, or want to find out more? Reach out to the professionals at Coleman Technologies! We have the experience necessary to bring your [information technology](https://colemandev.directivesites.com/tip-of-the-week-essential-information-technology-practices/) to the corporate level. Reach out to us at (604) 513-9428 to learn more. [ ](https://colemantechnologies.com/javascript:void(0);) [ ](https://colemantechnologies.com/javascript:void(0);) [ ](https://colemantechnologies.com/javascript:void(0);) [×](https://colemantechnologies.com/javascript:void(0);) Stay Informed When you subscribe to the blog, we will send you an e-mail when there are new updates on the site so you wouldn't miss them. 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