Archive for the ‘Managed IT’ Category

The Difference Between Good IT and Great Technical Support

Business owners and CEOs spend a lot of time trying to avoid below-average IT firms while staying on the lookout for the best ones that can help their companies grow and become more profitable. But while terrible work is usually easy to spot even if you aren’t that familiar with technology, how do you know [...]

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5 Good Reasons to Switch Your IT Services Provider

There are a lot of business owners and executives out there who are overwhelmingly frustrated with their current IT company, and with good reason. If you are one of them, we understand your pain. But that doesn’t mean your relationship with your outsourced technology support team has to be the same way. Here are five [...]

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See your company in the clouds

It will be there one day soon.  I promise. There has been so much said about cloud-based technology in the past couple of years you may feel a little lost, confused, or in the dark about cloud services.  Let’s start with some simple info. The Cloud – aka. The Internet.  Whenever you read or someone [...]

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Why you need a firewall

We repeatedly hear the question- “Why do I need a firewall?  I’m a small business and no hacker is going to come after me.” First, if you don’t know what a firewall is, its basically a small device that plugs into your network that has the sole purpose of keeping the bad guys and unwanted [...]

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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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The business “Technology Personality” Quiz

Ever wonder what the state of technology is at your business but don’t know where to start? Is your technology increasing revenues or lending to an increase in productivity of your staff? Can you sleep at night knowing your critical data is backed up 100% without a doubt? Sometimes assessing the state of your business [...]

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Stop paying for break/fix IT services

How does faster performance, fewer error messages, and practically zero downtime sound to you? Under our ForeSite IT program, that is exactly what we will deliver.  Technology will degrade in performance over time, causing your systems to slow down, hang up, and crash. Our preventative maintenance and network monitoring will make sure your computers stay [...]

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Just think, Netscape used to charge.

Today marks Microsoft’s final release of Internet Explorer 9, unleashing it into the wilds of the Internet.  It always makes me reminisce about the “good ole days” when I remember running old school versions of Netscape (it was so exciting watching the Netscape “N” animation as I browsed the Internet).  I found it funny as [...]

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Go green three easy ways in March

March is all about green.  Spring arriving soon, St. Patty’s Day, the Spartans trying desperately to get to March Madness… Green, though, is all about being environmentally friendly!  Let’s cut down on waste and environmental pollution.  Let’s find ways to save money on utilities, overhead and even IT services. 1. Let’s go virtual! Desktop virtualization, [...]

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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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