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The Employee’s Guide to Working Remotely

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

It’s not uncommon where a situation arises and you will find yourself working from home. To make this work, it is important that you keep a few additional issues in mind so that you can make the most of it. We have put together a few simple best practices that you should keep in mind as you operate remotely. Security...

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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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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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