By popular request, we would like to introduce you to InfoStream’s new Worry-Free Care Program! For a fixed monthly cost, we will take over a major portion of monitoring and maintaining your computer network at a fixed, predictable cost. In addition we are including up to four limited support incidents per month.

As always, our goal is to provide the highest level of service and care for our clients. You no longer have to do the worrying about backups, disaster recovery and impending problems.

In the past, most calls required a visit to you site and incurred a minimum 1 hour charge. Now we can remote in to any server or workstation and often resolve any issue in minutes!

For most of our clients, this complete package only costs $300/mo. A basic package is only $140/mo. If you are a quarterly server maintenance subscriber, you get an additional $40 per month off of the full package!

Find out more about our Worry-Free Network Care.

InfoStream Cloud Backup takes your firms critical data and backs it up to the “Cloud” in a highly secure, protected fortress. We can back up as much or as little as you want so you can pick and choose!

No more paying for extra backup drives, rotating drives offsite (staff time), not sure you have critical data offsite, etc. Best way I can think of to survive a “Business Ending Event”!

Normally: $20/mo. + $0.60/GB of Data
LIMITED Time Special: $0/mo. + $0.50/GB of Data

This includes our time to setup and our actively monitoring your backups. Data is rounded up and billed to the nearest 50GB block.

It’s cheap and insures you have everything in a disaster.

93% of companies that lost their data for 10 days or more filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster, and 50% filed for bankruptcy immediately. – National Archives & Records Administration in Washington DC.

100% of backup tapes will fail at some point. Often without any indication or warning until the data stored on them is needed.

Learn more about our Worry-Free Cloud today!

One of our greatest advertisements is your satisfaction. If you are happy with our service, we would love it if you would tell others about us. (If you are not happy with us, please tell US). With that in mind, let me tell you about our new promotion.

If you refer a new contact to us, and we provide them 5 hours of service, we will give you $200.00! That’s right, any new client you send our way is worth money in your pocket. But wait, there’s more! If that same referral uses InfoStream for 300 minutes, we’ll still give you $200.00! So whether it’s 5 hours OR 300 minutes, you get the $200.00. Still not enough? Well, OK, but only because we like you…if that contact gives InfoStream 18,000 seconds of ….. well, you get the picture.

Please tell your friends and colleagues about us and we will provide the same excellent service to them that we have provided for you.

Would you like an hour of free computer support? Maybe you have some minor computer issues you need cleaned up, or just want to learn some new tricks for your computer, or even a tune up and speed up of that computer. It could be a training-planning seminar or a review and maintenance of your software. Or if you have something else in mind, let us know and we’ll take care of it.

Now, how do you get this free hour?

InfoStream is looking for a little help from you. If you have a website, we’re asking for you to add in a link that points back to your excellent IT support company. It could be a link to our main page, or a direct link to our newsletter sign-up page, or even a link to our blog. The newsletter and blog both provide current articles by InfoStream staff and additional articles from across the country on a wide range of topics, some technical, and some informational. We do request that the link be on your website, and not in a blog post.

If you decide to set that link up, let us know! Send one of us an email with the link, and we’ll give you that hour of free help on anything you want.

So give your web designer a call.

And then give us a call!

Here’s a little challenge to stimulate the brain cells. The following quotes are from various movies. To give you a little help, we’ve given you the year of the movie’s release. They all have something to do with computers and technology. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to identify both the name of the movie, and the person who said the line.

The answers will be at the bottom of the newsletter.

1. “You’re in trouble, program. Why don’t you make it easy on yourself? Who’s your user?” (1982)
   
2. “Greetings Professer Falken, Would you like to play a game?” (1983)
   
3. “I’m Sorry Dave, I can’t do that.” (1968)
   
4. “Never send a human to do a machine’s job.” (1999)
   
5. “R2-D2, You know better than to trust a strange computer.” (1980)
   
6. “He got me invested in some kinda fruit company.” (1994)
   
7. “No, I’m from Iowa; I only work in Outer Space” (1986)
   
8. “Look, you are probably going to be a very successful computer person. But you’re gonna go through life thinking that girls don’t like you because you’re a nerd.” (2010)
   
9. “I asked for a car, I got a computer. How’s that for being born under a bad sign?” (1986)
   
10. “Caution: Rogue robots. Caution…” (2008)
    
11. “I don’t know how to work this!” (referring to an iPhone) (2008)
    
12. “Sir, they hacked a firewall in more than ten seconds! Even with a brute force attack, a supercomputer would have to take twenty years to do that!” (2007)
    
13. “COMPUTER DO SOMETHING!” (2005)

===============ANSWERS ARE BELOW HERE================

Speaker                                             Movie

1. Master Control Program                       Tron
2. WOPR                                                   WarGames
3. HAL 9000                                             2001: A Space Odyssey
4. Agent Smith                                         The Matrix
5. C-3PO                                                  Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back
6. Forrest Gump                                       Forrest Gump
7. Captain James T. Kirk                           Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
8. Erica Albright                                       Social Network
9. Ferris Beuller                                        Ferris Beuller
10. Ship’s Computer                                  Wall-E
11. Carrie Bradshaw                                  Sex and the City
12. Maggie Magsden                                 Transformers
13. Arthur Dent                                         Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Strangely enough, in our little computer consulting world, we have found ourselves helping clients get a lot more attention, clients and action from the web lately. While we are not marketing or web experts, we have become pretty adept at helping people get a lot more action and even having fun doing it.

There is so much you can do for free without any special help. It’s kind of fun even. Some of the metrics that “grade” your success are almost like video game scores in that it is fun to get them higher.

Since I don’t consider myself a true expert in this area, and yet I can easily show you how to get a major leg up, I would be happy to share my “secret sauce” with you for free. Just give me a call any time.

Did you know that most financial and IT audits require a completed full server test restore every 12 months? If your offices burned down one night, are you sure you can restore your server? Even to a different model? Are you sure your data will be there or will it be a Business Ending Event?

We offer full server disaster recover testing for a flat fee. We take your backup to our offices and simulate a full restoration to a completely different server and document all of the findings. Not only does this verify your disaster plan, it provides an invaluable checklist to be used in an actual disaster.

We have a flat rate special menu you can request by e-mailing me at alan@infostream.cc that includes this and other services. These flat rates are fixed so that even if it takes us twice as long, you don’t pay a penny more.

Click here to take a look! InfoStream Fixed Prices Menu

One of our main goals is to make work easier for our clients. We are always looking for ways to free up your time, take away pain points, make you more productive and take the stress from you.

Do you know of any great people that could use our help? If you send them our way, not only will we help them with their stress, we’ll help you! If they become a paying client, we’ll arrange for you to have dinner out on us and a free, professional massage in your very own home!

We are so lucky to work with the clients and friends that we have and we are looking for a few more. As always, your referrals are so very much appreciated. We promise not to let you down and give them 110%!

Did you know that InfoStream is a Dell Gold Partner?

That means that in addition to Dell’s already ridiculously inexpensive prices, we get another huge discount due to the large number of computers and servers we buy every month.  In many cases our discounts are cheaper than educational pricing, AICPA or FICPA discounts and even sale prices you find online and in catalogs.

Plus, when you have us get something for you, we don’t charge you for any time in recommending and tweaking the system so that you get maximum bang for minimum buck.  Despite our extremely picky requirements in what we demand from our computers, we can do it at a big discount!