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Are Managed IT Services Right For You? A Few Things to Consider
In the start-up environment, we encounter an eclectic bunch of personality types. There is a reason people become entrepreneurs or C-level execs. When we meet the owners or decision makers at smaller companies and organizations, we can tell right away why they're...
Breaking News: Downtime Kills Small Businesses
Downtime is bad news for any business whether big or small. Downtime kills small businesses A recent two-hour New York Times' downtime occurrence sent Twitter ablaze and their stock price plummeting. Google going down for one to five hours resulted in lost revenue up...
Is That A Business Continuity Plan in Your Pocket…Or A Bunch of Jargon?
Technology is full of difficult jargon. To further complicate things, certain terms are often used in a different context between one publication or service provider and the next. An example of this is the usage of backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity...
Why Should You Get In The Cloud?
A recent article by The Guardian (UK) states that the cloud industry is set to see a growth of around 30% soon. But many small and medium business owners are still struggling to make sense of the cloud and how it can benefit them. If you are one of them, then here’s...
Six Steps to Better Data Backup and Quicker Recovery
Think Quicker Recovery Time, Not Quicker Backup - While incremental backups are much faster than executing a full-backup, they also prolong recovery time. In the event of data loss, a full restore will require loading the most recent full backup and then each...
10 Signs your IT provider is failing
In today's disrupted business environment, many tech support companies are pushed to the limits of their capabilities. It's important for you to know the signs your IT support provider has reached the limits of their abilities. Outsourced IT support should enable you...
BEWARE: Massive COVID-19 Excel Phishing Attack in Progress
Microsoft this week warned about a massive COVID-19 Excel phishing attack that started on May 12. The campaign sends emails that look like they are from the "Johns Hopkins Center", and they have an Excel attachment that claims to be US deaths caused by the...
Five Things You Should Do Right Now to Preserve Your Network and Systems
In today's world of big data, everyone wants to ensure that they are secure and protected from breaching. Here are five important steps you must take to preserve your network and systems. With both the dangers from hacking, phishing and just plain 1. Backup Files...
Data Loss Can Cause You to Shut Down
Small and medium sized businesses today are relying more than ever on IT systems to efficiently run their business, support customers and optimize productivity. These systems house sensitive digital data ranging from employee and customer information, to internal...