Let me start out by saying that the Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro has not been designed or touted as a business machine. Our company uses Lenovo ThinkPad models internally, and we supply many of our clients with similar devices for their own organizations. But when I saw this machine,
DISCLAIMER: You are about to read an outsourced IT firm’s account of what challenges are inherent to maintaining an in-house technology staff. While we have already acknowledged the problems with our own service model in this article, the fact remains that we benefit from organizations choosing not to maintain an
You can’t step into the tech world without hearing something about the cloud. “It’s so cheap!” “You can access your data from a submarine!” “All you have to do is sign up!” “Once you’re there, you’ve made it to Valhalla!” The conversation is certainly warranted, but there are several key
There aren’t any! Outsourcing is perfect. Call us? …Okay, kidding. As wonderful as it would be for an outsourced IT firm to say that there isn’t a single fundamental problem with the concept of outsourcing, that of course cannot logically be true. In fact, it is outsourced IT firms
Did you know that in Cisco Systems Inc.’s 2015 Annual Security Report, law firms were ranked as the seventh most-vulnerable industry? That’s scary, considering how heavily law firms rely on data, and how heavily their clients rely on privacy. In a previous blog, we investigated the top cybersecurity threats to law
No matter how advanced technology gets, the unfortunate fact of the matter is that it won’t last forever. Your staff’s machines will begin to show signs of slowness after about 3 years. After 5, you’ll be lucky if they’re running anywhere close to full capacity. Your servers will start generating
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