The Undiscovered (Space) Country “What the heck is this?!” Stefan Wilson said the moment he energized atop a little circle in the transporter room of the Starship Enterprise. “It’s future tech, laddie, but I’m afraid we havena’ got the future assistance we need in future tech maintenance–the Federation’s got some economic woes.” “Uh… uh… uh……
Desperate Times, Desperate Measures Captain’s Log, stardate 9871.1: The Enterprise recently left routine maintenance at Starbase Zulu Prime. We were unable to… secure proper upgrades for a refurbishment of internal computational arrays. I’ve gone through history logs and identified a region in time and space where the finest IT personnel in the last five hundred…
Businesses of all sizes are seeking cloud backup solutions from Knoxville IT services providers to ensure efficient data management. A study by IDC revealed that companies have created and stored an unprecedented amount of data in 2009. IDC also predicted a 44x increase in the amount of data over the next 10 years. Data is…
Data security is the prime reason for business owners to outsource IT to managed services in Knoxville. Most people tend to focus on how to prevent and solve IT security issues with limited focus on backup considerations. Some of these solutions may not necessarily enable you to protect or recover your data, especially in this…
An Essential Component of Upgrade Managed services in Knoxville are something you’re going to need if you want to successfully and securely make the IoT (Internet of Things) leap. It’s here, and refraining from utilizing it will deprive you of advantages that can definitely put your business on the next profitability tier. Consider, for instance,…
Some Hackers Aren’t Malicious Knoxville IT support can help protect your business from hackers— even those who are more “prank-prone” than anything else. Ever heard of “Stackoverflowin?” He’s a hacker who recently took over some 150,000 unsecured printers as a means of raising “hacking awareness.” His message was simple: your printer is unsecured, and if…
Why You Need a Disaster Recovery Plan Managed IT services providers in Knoxville help maintain your business even in the worst-case scenario by designing and facilitating strategies to handle emergencies. Believe it or not, such strategies are so necessary that a prime directive of most MSPs is putting one into action which pertains directly to…
We see lots of confusion around the topics of DNS, nameservers, hosting, and email. Like a lot of facets of IT, these services are flexible and can be highly customized by someone who knows what they want to do. However, if you or someone you trust isn’t sure what they’re doing… things can go downhill in a…
“The Cloud” has become one of my favorite buzzwords. It’s my favorite because despite my disdain for buzzwords, it does get people to come and ask me what it means. In short, anything that is “cloud-based” is something that runs on the internet. One such application that we push on all of our clients is…
Smaller, lighter, faster. That’s what today’s computer manufacturers are going for. While products like Smart TVs and services like Netflix are blurring the lines between a computer and a Television, Lenovo’s latest entry into the market place is the Lenovo IdeaCentre Q-series. Ultra small and ultra light, it boasts all the functionality of a desktop…