Archive for the ‘Disaster Recovery’ Category

Are You Sure Your Backup and Recovery Plan is Working?

If you ask a business owner who has just lost everything because their servers or critical data weren’t protected when a fire, theft, or other disaster hit, then they might tell you that it’s the worst feeling in the world. Believe it or not, as a Michigan information technology company we know from experience that [...]

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2012: The year I made my first technology plan

Do you feel comfortable about your IT plan for 2012? Or do you not have one? If not, now would be a great time to carve out a few hours to discuss your goals for your technology for the next year.  Most businesses are looking at the budget and the business plan and initiatives at [...]

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The tenacity of malware

Some technology professional I am. After spending hours troubleshooting my own home computer trying to remove some nasty malware that somehow got on there I finally through in the towel.  I thought I could beat it.  I’ve cleaned viruses before… it was a simple enough process in the past.  Why, then, after 2 days of [...]

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Recovery Time Objective

Do you know what this means? As an IT person, you should learn it.  As a business manager, you should be aware of it.  As a business owner, you should know it like the back of your hand. Basically, it’s a goal on how much time your business can tolerate before your business processes or [...]

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Do You Have False Security Regarding Data Backup?

When your company’s server crashes, how long will it take before your business is back up and running like usual? Most companies fall into one of these three categories: No idea – this is, of course, bad, and scares most business owners. You think you know, but actually have bad information. This is almost worse [...]

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Technical Poetry

We spend most of our time preventing technical problems from coming up with our clients by being proactive but every so often disaster strikes.   One of my good clients had a “problem-child” computer that had nagging blue-screen issues that we finally resolved with the manufacturer.  She sent over to me her thoughts in the form [...]

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We’ve got a nap for that.

This past week I managed to find myself waking up late the morning of new year’s day. The night before was fun, albeit controlled.  In year’s past not so much, but now the evening is all about spending time with the family.  Turns out using your phone as an alarm clock though is not without [...]

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Move pieces of the business to the cloud

Moving to the cloud can mean so many things.  At the moment, most small businesses aren’t looking to get rid of all of their computers and replace them with virtual desktops and servers it’s just too daunting of a task to conceptually understand or even migrate to.  Instead of trying to move ALL of your [...]

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The 3 Biggest Misconceptions Companies Have Concerning Backups

Most companies realize they need to backup their data and often have some type of backup and disaster recovery solution set up. However, often it’s not adequate and companies only find out about the problems after a network crash in which all their data is lost. Misconception #1: My Data is Secure on Tape Backups. [...]

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Turning back time with volume shadow copy

I’m willing to bet that at one point or another you accidentally hit “save” instead of “save as”. Ever do that? I just did about 10 minutes ago.  The problem is by hitting the “save” button instead of “save as” is I overwrote a template document that I didn’t want to overwrite.  Why are those [...]

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