[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Viruses slip by anti-virus and anti-malware protection all the time. Your users often allow them through by clicking on something they shouldn’t. Sometimes, they’re so cleverly designed that they sneak right through, regardless of...
IT Support
5 IT Support Tips to Keep Your IT Equipment Fast and Current
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Your small business absolutely needs these tips. When time and financial resources are scarce, they help you stay competitive versus other bootstrapping SMBs. What can you do to make sure your IT infrastructure serves your client’s...
Do You Get 100% Uptime from Your IT Support Team?
Wouldn’t 100% uptime be your ideal vision? Is it even possible to achieve in any given year? Maybe and maybe not. But you should be at least at 99.8% uptime. Get any less than that, and your healthcare business (or any business for that matter) loses a ton of capacity...
5 Ways to Convince Your IT Support Team Outsourcing’s Okay
Imagine this: You’ve been an employee working loyally for your company for years. Now, after all this hard work, you hear that your company is going to start looking at outsourcing options. Your personal position at work may not be impacted at all by outsourcing....
Here is Why Your IT Support Cannot Ignore Tablets
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Tech Target recently published this blog post entitled "Why IT can't ignore tablet computers" that provides some useful insight into the whole BYOD and BYOx debate. View our post "Mobile Data Security: Forget BYOD - Now the Buzz is...
Are You Doing These 4 Simple Network & Server Repair Operations?
Are you the do-it-yourself type? This works for and against you. On the one hand, you can teach yourself how to tackle virtually any problem business or life throws at you. On the other, you can end up taking on too much and stressing and burning yourself out. If...
760 Data Security Reasons to Switch to a New Operating System
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] According to TechTarget's recently posted article "6 Benefits of Migrating to Modern OS's," The Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) has catalogued more than 760 vulnerabilities in Windows XP, and predicts “continued discovery...
4 Budget Busting IT Support Mistakes When Moving your Office
'Tis the season to move offices, it seems. We get a great deal of calls in the heat of summer and around the holidays from companies relocating to different office space, and requiring assistance with their IT equipment. It could be that with vacations, business is...
Top 5 Benefits to Look for When Hiring Managed IT Services
When you hire managed IT services, not all companies are the same. There’s what they say they do – and then what they actually do. At Great Lakes Computer, we want you to get the very best service from your provider when you sign the contract. Before you actually do...
5 Telltale Signs It’s Time to Hire an IT Support Company
If you’re a small business owner, you have to constantly evaluate whether to do it yourself or hire someone else. How do you know when you’ve crossed the threshold from being able to do it yourself to having to hire an outside vendor to do the work? When it comes to...