Security Considerations for Cloud Computing
There’s no doubt that cloud computing is increasing in popularity with businesses of all sizes. They implement a cloud computing infrastructure for a variety of reasons, including cost savings and efficient and streamlined data storage. Before any business makes the switch to cloud computing, it is important to take security . . .
How Businesses Can Protect Against Ransomware
Ransomware is a type of malware that is a troublesome security threat. When the network is infected, the ransomware shuts down the infrastructure and leaves instructions to pay a certain amount of money in order to regain access. If the business doesn’t pay, access will not be granted. While it . . .
Prediction: 1 Billion HTML5 Phones Sold in 2013
It's not news that more and more people are bringing their own phones to the work places. There's even an acronym for it, BYOD, bring your own device. We have written about the risk of employee devices brought into and used in the workplace. According to a recent GigaOm article, . . .
Spam Hits Lowest Level in Three Years
We found a bit of good news for Computer Network Support in Boston providers. According to an article in Network World, global spam fell to the lowest level in three years. This may be a sign that spammers could be getting a better rate of return by hitting social-media websites . . .
Boston’s Job Market – Second to One
Good news for Boston IT support consulting providers. According to a report released Monday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics , Boston’s jobs numbers grew almost two percent, year over year, by the end of this October - more than any other major U.S. metropolitan just shy of Houston. . . .
Ireland and Iceland Want Data Centers
Location, location, location. You hear it all the time. Companies looking for the best location for their Data Centers are looking to the Western edge of Europe. They're looking at Ireland and Iceland. Both countries are looking to fuel their hard-hit economies with new data centers which may be connected . . .
Is it The End of The PC?
What would the end of the PC era mean to you if you provided Computer Networking Support in Boston? We were curious about the possibility when the following appeared in an article posted by Harvard Law School. The following op-ed by Harvard Law School Professor Jonathan Zittrain appeared in the . . .
Big Brother and Your Smartphone
As providers of Boston Area Tech Support we thought this article about the tracking of smartphone use was very interesting. Most of us that bought a smartphone and the required mobile service to use it think that's the end of it. How and what we use it for is our . . .
Protecting Company Information is Not an Option
For those of us that provide Boston IT Managed Services, sometimes you find an article that says it all. We found such an article recently in Network World. Everything you need to know about protecting your business against cyber attacks is in here. More importantly the writer suggests why NOT . . .
Boston Brain Drain
If the economy isn't the reason Boston Area Technology Support and Boston IT Consulting businesses aren't staying local, what is? Not too long ago Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder, commented that he could have stayed in Boston to build the company rather than move to Silicon Valley. This has those in . . .
Tech Conference at MIT
News and information for Technology SupportandIT Consulting providers in the Boston Area The regional gathering of the U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Partnership aims to figure out how America can increase its role in cutting-edge manufacturing by bringing together industry, universities and federal officials, the Herald reports. Three hundred or more leaders . . .
