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One thing the “big guys” have always had available to them is “two factor” authentication in the form of products such as SecureID from RSA (there are others but SecureID is the one I’m most familiar with).  Two factor authentication goes beyond the password authentication mechanisms we are all used to and adds a layer …

I’ve been dealing with backup questions over the last little while and it seems that a lot of SMB operations have a lot of confusion about what constitutes a backup system.  I guess in very simple terms, a backup system is a aggregation of tools and devices that produce some sort of “copy” of your …

I’ve been in this business a long, long time and I’ve worked for reseller/consultants as well as in IT in private business.  In that time I’ve had more than my fair share of heart attacks while at a customer site or at a company location, said heart attacks caused by some seemingly disastrous screw up …

… often aren’t found in smaller IT shops! It’s sad but true, smaller shops often don’t follow the “rules” for an IT rollout, at least not when compared to the big guys.  The big guys with their big budgets will plan, test, lab, torture-test, and “what-if” an IT rollout to death before committing it to …

Every now and again you buy something that just flat out works and you want to tell everyone.  Well, that’s the case today.  I just went out and bought a new HP LaserJet Pro 1536dnf MFP unit for home and it is a smashing piece of kit!  Now, I’ve always been a big fan of …

We do a lot of internal blogging at the offfice but there we use SharePoint and the formatting and such is all “managed” for us.  This blog uses WordPress and I’m just learning the ropes.  So, please bear with me while I figure it all out!