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Cloud-Based Computing Changes The Focus To Effective Collaboration

Sometimes it seems that we cannot find enough time in our day.  As we try to streamline our to-do list and free up some time to concentrate on growing the business, taking action to set aside the worry...

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VoIP Telephone Systems – Efficient, Smart and Good for Business

Since the early 2000′s, the internet has provided for some of the most drastic technological improvements in the history of mankind. Although these improvements have benefitted everyone, possibly the...

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Make Sure You Take Into Account Human Error When Considering Malware Protection

Malware Protection has become a big deal in today’s IT departments. Around the world, the best minds are split on two different sides: those of the antivirus creators and those of the hackers. For...

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More Important Than Ever for Businesses to Maintain Backups

Your data is important to keep your business running. It is what keeps your business moving forward. What would happen if your data was corrupted or lost? Do you need backups of your data? Columbus...

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What You Need To Know About Cloud Storage

Yes, it can be difficult for the image of a cloud to really conjure up images of security. However, that is exactly what it is doing in the minds of business owners around the world. So, just what is...

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Communications Infrastructure is Transformed by both VoIP and BYOD

Global subscribers to VoIP services reached the nine figure level in 2012. That’s over 100 million worldwide. Most analysts agree that in 2013 the number will double to over 200 million. This is the...

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End of XP is Near – What Next?

We all knew the day had to come. We just kept denying it was on the way. April 8, 2014 is the day that Microsoft will stop supporting our beloved Windows XP. Here’s what the gang at Redmond said about...

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The latest report on spam lets us know just how much we need spam filters

If there was any question in our minds as to the value of our spam filters, we got a look at the Spam Report from Kaspersky Labs for Q1 2013. Yeah, we definitely preferred it when spam was just a...

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Look To The Cloud For An Efficient Disaster Recovery Plan

  Disasters, both natural and man-made, have unfortunately been headline events recently. While protection of human life is always the priority, attention turns to the effect of catastrophic events on...

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The Need for Encryption & Other Security Measures Highlighted by Verizon Study

A comprehensive data breach study by Verizon was released in October 2012. The study of 832 breaches across many sectors, including health care, was conducted in cooperation with the U.S. Secret...

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Spam Filters Can Improve Network Security

Spam filters are not generally considered a security measure but as spam traffic increases, they may find correspondingly greater effectiveness in that capacity. It seems that every week, another major...

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Importance of Malware Protection in the Cloud

As malware becomes more problematic, so is companies’ concern for protecting confidential information.  Malware threats have gotten worse since everyone is surfing the web.  It used to be on a USB...

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Broadband Internet: Finding a Balance for How Much Bandwidth Your Business...

Broadband Internet is going to be important for how efficient your business becomes. As much as America seems to perpetually run behind other countries in broadband Internet speeds, you will ultimately...

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Don’t Forget the Physical for PC Security

You guard against the loss of data by storing it on the cloud, implement security software to protect your computers against malware and require users to change their passwords every six months....

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Redundancy: The Key to the Cloud’s Extraordinary Stability and Data Integrity

Redundancy is a central theme of all cloud technologies. It was a natural extension of virtualization, which allowed the encapsulation of entire servers into a single file, making them easy to...

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Common Threats to PC Security

Because of the growing popularity of cloud storage, many businesses have shifted their focus to their network security because they do not want to put their data at risk. Network security is essential...

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Protecting Data from Employee Data Theft

Businesses typically improve their web security to defend their data from hackers and therefore often forget to consider protecting data from employees. While most companies have a reason to trust...

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How Cloud Storage Gives Employees More Flexibility and Time to Work

One of the main benefits of cloud storage is that the stored data can be accessed from any device with Internet capabilities, as long as the user has permission to access the files. If a company has...

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Why Wiring is Important in IT

Wireless networks have been a great convenience in the consumer market, but business IT and data centers must deal with large amounts of physical wiring. While wireless is adequate, affordable and...

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Higher Internet Speed Will Put Students on the Fast Track to Higher Education

This year President Obama renewed his commitment to improving education through enhanced technology with the announcement of ConnectEd, a 5 year program whose objective will be to increase the Internet...

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