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Finding IT Consulting in Miami

February 10th, 2012 kkline No comments

Are you in the process of finding IT consulting in Miami? If so, you’ve come to right place. For over 30 years, Connections for Business has been helping small to medium sized businesses, just like yours, with finding IT consulting in Miami. It’s pretty simple because, they’re the right choice!

Here at Connections, we fully understand it can be difficult to make heads or tails of all things IT related and how it can help or hinder your business. When you allow us to help, and you choose to work with us, you’re allowing us to become an extension of your business. We pride ourselves on being more than just some IT guys and we will help you develop and maintain a technology strategy that aligns with your business’ needs and goals.

By partnering up with us, you’ll be getting the support and management it takes to make them work together. We believe we can help you focus on the more important aspects of ensuring your business’ day to day success.

We’re fully aware of the challenges small to medium sized businesses face today and how important continuity is. We’re also aware of the fact that your business is so heavily reliant on technology, making it essential that the support you receive helps meet your business goals.

With around the clock support, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, we like to think we take the challenge out of finding IT consulting in Miami. We’ll be there to make sure you know exactly what is going on with your IT solutions at all times.

Why wait any longer? By giving us a call today, you can learn more about every aspect of your IT needs that we can your small to medium sized business with.

Categories: IT Support Tags: anti-virus, antivirus, Business Computer Help, business continuity, business help, computer issues, connectcare, Connections for Business, cost effective, data backup, disaster, Ft Lauderdale, IT department, Master of Disaster, recovery, Safety, South Florida, troubleshoot

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.

Categories: IT Support Tags: anti-virus, backup, Broward, Business Computer Help, computer issues, connectcare, Connections for Business, continuity, cost effective, data backup, Data Protection, disaster, IT department, Managed IT, Palm Beach, South Florida, troubleshoot

Remembering 9/11

September 7th, 2011 jgarber 2 comments

Everyone has a story
This one is mine

Everyone has a story about where they were and what they remember on September 11, 2001. This is my story. I have been asked to tell it many times. On the tenth anniversary of the attacks, I decided to put it on video and share it.

I am also inviting people to share their 9/11 memories with me and the world. Feel free to link your video or written story below in the comments section of my blog.

Categories: Master of Disaster Tags: "Jon Garber", 9/11, disaster, Storytelling, World Trade Center

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.