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If you are anything like most people, you don’t even have a physical phone book floating around your office. Why would you need it? As a popular Facebook image shared, we have “the knowledge of the world in our pockets.” While you may or may not use it to look at cats…

Lately, we have gotten a lot of questions and concerns from customers about HIPAA compliance. Because security is a big piece of that and computers are central to the question, we are going to talk a bit about HIPAA compliance this month on our blog. IT Companies Are…

Working from anywhere can be a curse and a blessing. On one hand, it’s nice to be able to take care of a customer’s emergency. On the other, how can you ever be “off-duty?” And let’s not even get into the issue of cell phones and mobile devices leading people to…

Chances are, of all the things you use your computer for, email is the biggest. I read one statistic that said 70% of your business information is in your email. Even if it’s an exaggeration, it’s easily one of the most important pieces of your business! But having…

As businesses store and create data, it becomes more and more likely to disappear. Even more annoyingly, it seems that backup solutions that used to work fine, are not working so well any more. While this is nothing new (remember Zip Drives?), it DOES mean that it’s a…

So you keep hearing about managed services. You might have even talked to your IT company about it. But do you REALLY need it? Not every business does, you know. Here are a few flags that having managed services might not be a good fit.

A few weeks ago, I asked if your backup solution was sufficient and David shared a bit about “unrecoverable read errors.” There was another piece of the story that I wanted to share, though. What is RAID5? Without getting into a lot of technical gobledygook, RAID 5 is…

Another Microsoft Product is reaching the end of it’s life. Instead of it being Windows XP, this time it’s Microsoft Server 2003. As of July 2015, Microsoft will no longer be providing support. Are you ready?

I can hear you saying it “I only check my email, do some banking and read the New York Times, the free virus protection I have on my computer should work just fine!” I’m here to tell you, YOUR WRONG.Why?An article on Arstechnica explains “..visitors to The New York…