There are two things you hear about almost incessantly in the IT world - backups (seriously folks, back your stuff up!), and patching. Backups make sense - pretty much everyone understands the importance of having an additional copy of their...

Let’s talk about the weather for a moment, shall we? As Hurricane Hector headed towards Hawaii as a Category 4 storm in the Pacific, experts forecast a less active than average Atlantic hurricane season. This is good news in general, but it doesn’t...

At first glance, some SMB owners may think it’s counterintuitive to hire a Managed Service Provider (MSP) to handle all of their IT needs. Either they have an internal IT employee or full department, or can’t afford the luxury of an in-house IT...

Having a computer virus may seem like an incredibly inconvenient but relatively minor issue… until it affects an entire city’s computer system. That’s exactly what happened in Portsmouth, New Hampshire earlier this year. The town was hit by a Trojan...