Why You Need Rock-Solid Security and Backups Visualize this. You manage your business with a digital system with poor security. Out of nowhere, your files are corrupted, networks are damaged, and your system has begun to slow down. The absence of robust security...
Are Your Backups Good? How Do You Know? Your business might be only one disaster away from closing its doors forever. And the funny thing about disasters is, they mostly come unannounced. Data loss, too, is a disaster that can arrive at any time and have severe...
Computers are a Pain in the… (but they DON’T have to be) Did you ever spend a long time working on a spreadsheet or entering data or writing a manual or document only to watch it all disappear before your eyes when your computer froze or crashed? Or, how about...
Was Your Business Ready for COVID-19? When COVID-19 hit the United States, it affected different businesses in different ways. Some jobs require a physical presence while others can be done anywhere there is a phone and an internet connection. Of course, police,...
Microsoft broke the Windows 10 search box and it is a problem. We like to think that the offline things we do on our computers are, well, offline. But in the last couple of days, Windows 10 users around the world saw a black box on their screen instead of the search...
The UNTHINKABLE Happened… Now What??? Servers, desktop, and laptops are at the core of most businesses. There are many things which can come between you and your files and data. Technology failures and natural disasters such as fire, flood, hurricanes,...
(Actually, you should have upgraded already…) Long gone are the days when you could run an older computer with an old version of Windows. In those days, if you were willing to live without the “latest and greatest” features, you had a choice and the...
Why Small Businesses Should Hire Outside Computer Support Most small businesses outsource activities that are not part of their core competence. For example, most companies don’t do their own legal work, they hire lawyers as needed. Most don’t do their own...
How to Fight a Ransomware Attack It can strike at any time. One minute you are working on your computer and the next your computer is behaving strangely, and you can’t open your files. You look into a folder and see your files with altered file names. You look in...
Should My Business go to “The Cloud”? There are thousands of web pages out there that can answer the question, “What is The Cloud?” For our purposes, we can think of The Cloud as a bunch of internet-based computers that allow businesses and individuals to...