People often call and ask if we do computer support. The short answer is yes, we do. But then, there are a lot of companies and individuals that provide some form of computer support. This term means different things to different people—sometimes drastically different. So when I answer that question with a “Yes, we do,” […]
Fire Your IT Guy
Our current economic decline has business owners looking for ways to cut costs without sacrificing the quality of services they receive. The concept of outsourcing to local companies has been around for a long time. And now more than ever, businesses are warming up to the idea of outsourcing their IT support to a trusted […]
The Cost of Free Software
Something I hear frequently from friends and clients is that they don’t want to pay for software. And why should they? With all the enticing open source and free software apps available, not to mention all the free Cloud services, why would anyone want to pay for software? I won’t give you the “you get what […]
How to Choose a Cloud Backup Solution
First, let’s differentiate between cloud backup and cloud storage. Cloud storage is simply storing data in an offsite facility. Typically this represents the working set of your data—the files you work with every day. The files you keep in the cloud are often copies of the files you work with. So if you modify a […]
Why Cloud Backup?
In this age of cloud-based everything, it amazes me how many companies are still doing their backups either completely onsite, or to removable media that they take offsite. Despite the proven unreliability of tapes, these are still prevalant in many places. But what I’m seeing more of these days is removable and external hard drives […]