So you've been prudent about getting your business continuity plans set up. You have all your servers set up with image based backups, you have moved your mail to the cloud with a service such as Office 365, you even have critical files stored in the cloud with a file based cloud backup service.

InfoStream is excited and proud to announce a new contributor to our blog and newsletter! Elizabeth Way is the CEO of Abaca.net Programming & Software Support. Her team help firms integrate accounting and operations systems into their processes to increase productivity and get results.

We are often asked about add-on programs or services that can enhance your QuickBooks Enterprise experience. Some are designed to fill in the gaps of a specific industry’s needs. Some streamline your procedures saving you valuable time and resources. Many of these can be found at http://marketplace.

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Our most popular computer consulting and computer support articles are those with amazing websites, utilities and hidden gems that clients didn't know about and now they love!

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Any cool websites, utilities, phone/tablet apps or computer tricks you'd like to share and bask in the appreciation? Keep it family friendly of course.

There are a couple of major scenarios we constantly come across. What I find fascinating is how incredibly different the scenarios turn out for the client.

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InfoStream, Inc. has landed on Nine Lives Media’s MSPmentor 100 Small Business Edition a new list that honors the world’s top managed service providers (MSPs).

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Despite top of the line antivirus and antispyware protections in place, the spyware creators are still able to create items that get through the filters and cause infections.  (But that’s not what this article is about).  The most common methods of infection are still infected attachments to emails and “drive-by” hits from websites while browsing the Internet.

As we approach the end of 2012, it's time to give some thought as to what your IT needs may look like in 2013. If you haven't already, it's a great idea to put a budget together for new hardware (computers, servers, infrastructure upgrades such as firewalls, backups, and network devices), and any software upgrades you have been putting off for a while.

With hurricane season fading into history yet again, we can relax knowing our network and data are safe again. The dangerous storms have come and gone and we can focus on the next item on the to-do list. We’ve successfully saved our data and our jobs…or have we?
Although storms and weather get a lot of attention for the damage and outages they cause, there is another, more subtle danger that can be just as catastrophic to your network and to your business.