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How Technology Changed the Office Forever

It’s hard to think about the modern office without considering the role that information technology plays in it. If you think about it, it wasn’t so long ago that organizations were struggling with gaining access to important resources and maintenance, but sometimes it’s important to reflect on the way things were before IT infested offices all over the world. Let’s...

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NetMGM launches new website!

NetMGM is proud to announce the launch of our new website at http://netmgm.com/. The goal of the new website is to make it easier for our existing clients to submit and manage support requests, and provide more information about our services for prospective clients. NetMGM is proud to announce the launch of our new website at http://netmgm.com/. The goal of...

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Disaster Recovery and Why it Matters to nationwide Businesses

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • June 29, 2020
  • IT Blog

When you mention the term 'disaster recovery,' most people think about the big ground-shattering events like earthquakes, fires, floods, tropical storms, etc. While these natural events are certainly disasters and devastating in their own right, smaller things can constitute as a disaster for your business, and they aren't seasonal. Let's look at the definition of disaster. dis·as·ter A calamitous event,...

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Insider Threats Can Be a Major Problem

Your business may rely on its technology, but it relies on your employees more. This relationship can expose your business to a myriad of different problems that hinder progress and stymie productivity. One of those problems happens to be IT-related threats that come from inside your company. Today, we are going to discuss the different types of insider threats to...

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What is your Identity Worth to You?

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • June 29, 2020
  • IT Blog

Your identity has quite a lot of value, especially in the wrong hands. Security firm ZoneAlarm put together some numbers in 2011 concerning identity fraud, and it even shocked us. Let's talk about a few of these statistics and what it means. First of all, what shocked us the most is that according to the FTC, in the United States,...

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Slow Computer? Increase your memory to boost computer Speeds

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • June 29, 2020
  • IT Blog

Sometimes when your workstation feels bogged down, a relatively cheap and simply hardware update can make a huge difference in performance. Adding more RAM (Random Access Memory, often just referred to as memory) can be a game changer for your bogged down PC. There are several factors that contribute to the speed of a PC. Let's very briefly break these...

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How Safe is Your Email?

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • June 29, 2020
  • IT Blog

Email is (and has been) a prime method of communication for businesses of all sizes. With email comes a whole slew of issues that are essentially synonymous with the technology; spam, information overload, phishing, and information privacy. Even nationwide small businesses that only do business locally are at risk of these issues. Personal email accounts are equally at risk. Employing...

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5 Tips for Saving Money on your IT

  • By Rafiq Masri
  • June 29, 2020
  • IT Blog

Saving a little on your technology can go a long ways, but cutting too many corners can lead to additional problems and expensive downtime. Here are a few ways you can cut costs without creating long term issues. Don't be Afraid to Replace Got an older PC that's causing you a lot of issues? Older technology is typically more expensive...

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Using VoIP Can Take Your Company Further

Voice over Internet Protocol has been one of the most dynamically growing products in all of information technology. Today, over 30 percent of businesses are using VoIP, and that number is growing fast. VoIP presents some extraordinary benefits for businesses that do business internationally. Today, we’ll take a look at VoIP’s trends and how it can be an effective investment...

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Why Remote Employees Can Feel Overworked (and How to Avoid It)

While many people who were afforded the option have likely grown used to remote work at this point, that does not mean a business that adopts it can do so with complete impunity. One considerable issue that many remote workers have been experiencing is a sincere issue of overwork, believe it or not. Let’s examine why this is a problem,...

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