Disaster Recovery

The ABCs of a Business Continuity Plan

Posted by on May 22, 2011 at 7:54 pm

The ABCs of a Business Continuity Plan: How To Stay in Business After an Extended Outage You’ve probably heard this sermon a million times, but we will keep harping on it until small business owners start taking the issue of business continuity and disaster recovery planning more seriously. Those in the trenches know the familiar [...]

How To Recover From A Hard Drive Crash

Posted by on January 4, 2011 at 8:05 am

So, what if you came into the office one morning and heard some clicking sound coming from your server? That clicking sound could be a near heart-stopper for some or another minor irritation to others depending on how well they have planned for such a situation. It is the tell-tale sign that a hard drive [...]

SMBs and Business Continuity Plans

Posted by on August 21, 2010 at 9:33 am

Question: What is the cost of a hardware failure to your business? If you are like most business owners, you are already calculating the cost of the server, hard drive, installation cost etc. But is that really the cost to your business? To put it another way, what would it cost you to replace the [...]

The Cost of a Lost Laptop

Posted by on September 21, 2009 at 5:13 pm

It happens millions of times a day: rushing off to the airport and dashing out of a cab to catch a flight; having a distracting conversation at a restaurant; returning a rental car; checking out of a hotel. Someone inevitably forgets a laptop or has one stolen. Each lost or stolen laptop caries some drastic [...]

Securing Windows 7

Posted by on August 7, 2009 at 4:21 pm

Windows 7 has been released to the consumer market and small business integrators, administrators and owners should start thinking about their strategy for deployment and how they will go about securing their environment. From our experiences with the beta, release candidate and official release (RTM) versions of Windows 7, I must say we’ve come a [...]