America’s favorite hobbies, it seems, is tracing our family tree. Nothing could be easier. We only have to send off a saliva sample and then upload the results in the hope of finding long lost relatives. However, there is a big trade off if you do that, according to security experts.

In just a matter of few months, an average company could double its stored data. As new laws require businesses to keep information for an increased period of time, it's up to the organization to obey the regulations and to create an effective mechanism for managing their records.

David Parizek officially became the CIO of InfoStream on his 13th anniversary of working with InfoStream. In addition to his top level engineering work, he will be playing a more active role in overseeing and implementing new technology for InfoStream.

We're excited to announce that we made this years list again as one of the Top 501 MSPs/IT firms in the world as ranked by MSPMentor.net.  It's always a challenge to stay ahead of "the wave" in technology.  Every day old tech expires, new tech becomes critical and even YOU, the client, constantly change and adapt to reach greater heights.

We are seeing a wave of users who are being forced to upgrade to Windows 10.  They get a pop up that they can get the free Windows 10 upgrade installed, however, even if they click the "X" to close the windows, it then installs!

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We can now take almost any program and put it on Amazon's amazing worldwide cloud system... awesome-sauce!

Want to move your accounting or quickbooks to the cloud?  Done.  That critical program?  No problem.  Need to share that data with people at work, home, other locations and on the road?  You got it.

Everyday we seem to hear about a company breached and data stolen.  So we take steps to lock down our stuff and protect our computers.  But is it possible your information was stolen from another company?

Here is a free tool to look up your email address to see if you are on any of the hacked client databases that have been shared around the "bad guys" community: (more…)

With everyone rushing around to find the latest gadget this holiday season, we just don’t realize that data on those gadgets is being collected.

Alan Crowetz, CEO of Infostream www.infostream.cc and Internet Security Expert for WPTV, was interviewed this month by the news channel and said that information is valuable to hackers.

It's the heart of the shopping season and there is a new security threat out.  Hackable gifts, toys and tech.

InfoStream CEO Alan Crowetz was interviewed on WPTV, NBC channel 5 about this surprising concern.  There are cases of kids toys being used to steal pictures, intercept children's texts and even listen in on them at home.