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Beware of Inexperienced IT Consulting Companies in Miami

January 27th, 2012 kkline No comments

Are you a small or medium sized business considering outsourcing your IT services? Or perhaps your current outsourced IT contract is coming to an end and you’re looking to switch to a more reliable company? If either of these scenarios sound familiar to you, you need to beware of inexperienced IT consulting companies in Miami.

For many businesses out there, IT is not your core business and, as a result, when you attempt to resolve any of your IT challenges in house, you can make a bigger mess of things that they originally were and cause other aspects of your business to suffer. With over 30 years of experience, we’re confident in our abilities and want to help you. We want to make sure you don’t get caught up in the pitfalls like other, less informed companies who did not head the advice of their need to beware of inexperienced IT consulting companies in Miami.

Unless you’re an IT company yourself, there are far more important things you and your employees need to be working on aside from maintaining and managing servers, desktops, printers, etc. By partnering with us, you’re getting the precise level of help and expertise when it comes to all things IT related that your business needs.

So remember, when it comes to choosing a new IT company or even if you’re in the market of changing your outsourced IT, you need to beware of inexperienced IT consulting companies in Miami. Here at Connections, not only do we have the years of hands on experience and training, we have relationships with other companies just like yours who can attest to our capabilities and strengths.

Give us a call today to learn more. We are positive our variety of IT services can help you and your employees both now and in the long run and in a cost effective manner.

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4 Simple Steps to Hiring Managed IT Services in Fort Lauderdale

January 18th, 2012 kkline No comments

Are you looking for the 4 simple steps to hiring managed IT services in Fort Lauderdale? Then look no further! By allowing us to take control of your managed IT services in Fort Lauderdale, you’ve allowing yourself peace of mind by putting your IT needs in the hands of a trusted partner.

Here at Connections for Business, we’ve been helping businesses just like yours for the last 30 years understand the 4 simple steps to hiring managed IT services in Fort Lauderdale and then some. Most business owners are under the impression that the costs of their computer systems equals the total amount spent on hardware, software and services. The reality is, over the life of each individual system, the largest cost is loss in productivity due to system glitches, downtime and the lack appropriate training.

Not only do we pride ourselves on our extremely high level of customer service, we like to view the IT solutions we offer your company as an extension of that service. If you’re tired to trying to handle all managing your own IT services entails, we want to help you free yourself of that burden. When you work with us, you’re affording your company and your employees a complete IT department at a cost effective price.

When it comes to the 4 simple steps to hiring managed IT services in Fort Lauderdale, the answer is simple really – step 1, choose us! We’re confident in our abilities to help you with all of your IT needs, whether they’re big or small. We don’t care if you’re a small or medium sized business, if you’re new to the game or a seasoned veteran. We want to take over handling your managed IT services in Fort Lauderdale so you no longer have to worry about it.

Categories: Managed IT, Managed Services Tags: anti-virus, antivirus, Business Computer Help, business continuity, cloud computing, computer issues, computer support, connectcare, connections, Connections for Business, continuity, cost effective, data backup, Data Protection, IT department, troubleshoot

The Shocking State Of Data Security In Small Business: Are YOU Making These Terrible Mistakes?

December 10th, 2010 dbennett No comments

According to a survey of 2,100 businesses conducted by Applied Research and commissioned by Symantec, the vast majority of businesses are frequent victims of cyber attacks, data loss and non-existent backup and recovery systems. Here are just a few of the shocking facts discovered:

74% of the businesses surveyed were affected by cyber attacks – including hackers, viruses, worms, etc. – in the past 12 months.
The average annual cost of these attacks was $188,242
62% had lost at least one mobile device in the last 12 months, and 100% admitted they had no password protection on these devices.
100 percent of these businesses said at least some of their lost devices had no password protection.
Less than 1/3 of the devices lost had a way to wipe these lost devices clean to prevent unauthorized access to confidential data.
42% of businesses have lost confidential data in the last 12 months and 40% reported a direct financial loss because of this.
47% of those survey said they STILL do NOT backup their data!

To be perfectly blunt, this is just plain stupid and irresponsible behavior on the part of businesses who allow these attacks to happen. Even worse, it’s a black eye on their PR if the confidential information is CLIENT data, such as credit card numbers, bank account information, medical records or other important identity information like social security numbers, birth dates, passwords, etc.

ALL businesses know of the threats to their computer network, be it viruses, hackers or internal employees; not taking some simple measures to protect against theft and loss of confidential data is completely foolish – not to mention expensive!

If you have any doubt whatsoever about whether you’re backing up your data properly, protecting mobile devices and maintaining up-to-date firewall, patches and security updates, NOW is the time to get this fixed! Call us at 954-920-9604, or ask here for a free, no-obligation consultation, and we’ll be happy to review your current network security and backups to see if you truly ARE protected, or if you’re more likely to end up another statistic.

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Tape Backup Won’t Cut It

October 25th, 2010 jgarber 1 comment

What’s the truth behind Tape for Data Backup?

Watch my latest episode of The Master of Disaster and find out!

Tape Backup has been a standard for businesses for many years. However, the technology is both dated and flawed. Find out the truth about Tape Backup and how to think about backup in your Continuity Strategy.