by Scott Hirschfeld | May 26, 2016 | Backup, Best Practices, Organization, Security
When talking about data security, I often tell the story of the company we worked with years ago who invested in what was a nice state of the art tape backup system. The backup was automatically run every night, and they diligently replaced the tapes each day. One...
by Scott Hirschfeld | Apr 24, 2014 | Backup, Best Practices, Organization, Security
We all know just how important tech is to our business. Maybe it’s even more important that we would like to admit! Most of us have at least considered the scary thought of what happens if it goes down. Just as importantly, we should all consider the cost of it not...
by Scott Hirschfeld | May 30, 2013 | Backup, Best Practices, Internet, IT Support, Managed Services, Software, Tech Trends
Taking Care of Your Data & Your Company It just happened again this week. One of our customers who uses us solely on a fix-when-broken basis lost data. Why? Their backup was not functioning properly. They needed to recover data, and when we logged into their...
by Scott Hirschfeld | Mar 14, 2013 | Backup, Best Practices, Internet, IT Support, Software, Tech Trends
So, you just upgraded to a new computer (or reloaded an old one). Everything is fast and speedy, except there are no iTunes, you can’t open any PDFs, and even some website content won’t play. You realize that you now need to go out, find and individually...
by Scott Hirschfeld | Dec 26, 2012 | Backup, Best Practices, Internet, IT Support, Tech Trends
Over the past twenty years, data has completely reformed the way that we work, live and play. It encompasses every area of our life from how we read books, to how we communicate, and how we do business. The creation and use of data has become so ingrained into our...
by Scott Hirschfeld | Nov 6, 2012 | Backup, Best Practices, Internet, Managed Services, Security, Tech Trends
When it comes to growth in the cloud, it is the consumer market that is growing and growing quickly. There are an abundance of service providers, Amazon, DropBox, Google and Apple just to name a few. Gartner predicts that the “average storage per household will grow...