PCI Compliance: Is Your Business PCI Compliant?
PCI Compliance: Is Your Business PCI Compliant? Credit card theft and fraud is a multi-billion dollar a year industry, one that affects businesses both large and small. If your business handles, transmits, or processes credit card information, you are at risk for...
Office 365 Migration Exchange and an AD Forest Move Part 2
Welcome back to the second and final part in this series on Simultaneous Inter-Forest AD and Exchange to Office 365 Migrations. If you haven’t yet read part one then please check out Office 365 Migration – Exchange and an AD Forest Move Part 1 now....
Office 365 Migration Exchange and an AD Forest Move
Many of you may be considering moving your business email platform to Office 365 from perhaps Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007 or 2010. The process for these moves can become complex depending on the servers involved, the sites, mail domains etc. If you don’t have a...
Is technology outsourcing right for you?
When it comes to considering whether “technology outsourcing is right for you” many companies and individuals have an opinion and stories to tell. Good stories and horror stories. The truth is obviously somewhere in between. These anecdotes and tales coupled with...
5 Ways to Improve your IT Security
Never Ending IT Security Considerations 2014 brings with it a plethora of cyber security threats, threats that cannot be thwarted with basic virus protection software. Businesses need to protect every piece of financial data from cyber criminals to ensure that their...
Cloud Services for Business
Cloud computing or cloud services is an umbrella term for an extensive range of online services. These services are rapidly gaining popularity as low cost management resources for SMBs looking to move their operations to the cloud. Other reasons why more companies are...
7 Information Technology Trends For You To Consider in 2014
Technology is an always evolving process and in this ever changing circle, what is hailed as “cutting edge— today always ends up as tomorrow’s feather duster—forgotten invention”. This is one of the important reasons why every tech firm or IT professional must take...
The Benefits of Sonicwall High Availability Configuration
We use Sonicwall routers/firewalls fairly often for client setups. I tend to find them to be a good blend of price, functionality, and ease of use. I won’t go into any long sales pitch on them, but needless to say I spend a fair amount of time setting up and using...
Email: Office 365 vs On Premise Exchange Server
There are many different scenarios in which you may wonder about On Site servers vs a cloud based product. In this article, I’m going to cover email. Since we’re talking about business email here (and not your cheap POP3/IMAP setup) we’ll be discussing Microsoft...
Battle of the File Syncs: Dropbox vs. OneDrive vs. Google Drive
[av_textblock size='' font_color='' color=''] These days there are many good file syncing apps out there with a wide range of features, so I am going to cover the three big ones at the moment: Dropbox, Skydrive, and Google Drive. Below is a chart that maps out some of...