As a financial officer of a small business in Greenville, I get frustrated when I see other small business owners struggling with technology, or lack thereof. I understand the need to squeeze the most out of every dime in your business and the thought of not buying something that you can just as well do yourself. John and I got …
Bandwidth Bottlenecks Can Bring Your Business to a Crawl
Ahhhhhhhh! Another frustrating day at work for you? Could it be because everything you wanted to do was slow as molasses? Each website you visited was slower than the last and your business depends on internet hosted applications, or “in the cloud” solutions? If that describes you, chances are good that you are suffering from a bandwidth bottleneck. If you …
Content Filtering Question: Has Social Media Hurt Your Business or Helped?
As I sit here, I am reading a friend’s status on Facebook that says, “well…ugh!!! no more waiting on the mail….got denied my unemployment cuz the state says i had disregard for my employer when i posted on facebook i was loosing my job. ??? SO…ADVICE….NEVER talk about your job, and NEVER have coworkers as friends on facebook!!!!! now, if …
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Finding Computer Repair in Greenville and Upstate South Carolina
Yesterday I wrote about how phone books seem to be going the way of the Commodore 64 (relegated to being used as a door stop). Of course as soon as I said that, I got a phone call from a potential client who had gotten our name out of the phone book. First one this year I believe. However, she …
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When You Need Computer Repair Do You Search Online or Use a Phone book?
If you are like most people, you keep a good ‘ol Yellow Page phone book handy. Many offices I have been in over the years while repairing computers have used phone books, but not for looking up numbers, they will tape a few together and raise their monitors up on them so they are viewing at a comfortable angle. And …
Just what DOES Homeland Secure IT, LLC do anyway?
That question was asked in a webinar a bit ago and was difficult to explain because what we do at Homeland Secure IT is far more than can be explained in a simple response like, “We work on computers”. While that is true, it is by no means the primary focus of our business. Of course our main site, http://www.HomelandSecureIT.com …
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
There, I said it! “Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!”…. It has been a long week here at Homeland Secure IT, with everyone tied up on a job almost constantly! Server deployment started today. Four computers sold and to be installed for one client, and another computer sold and going in on Monday… Not to mention a 1 TB RAID array installed in an existing …
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Free Microsoft T-Shirt
Homeland Secure IT, LLC has sponsored a couple Microsoft events where we showcased Microsoft products such as Microsoft Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Microsoft Office 2010 (due out later this year), and Windows 7. Because Microsoft can actually be pretty cool and we partner with them, they gave us some neat promotional products to give away at these events. …
Google High Speed Fiber Internet Still THE Hot Topic in Greenville
If you are from the Greenville / Upstate area you would have to be living as a Quaker to not know about all that is going on with the effort to bring Google Fiber here. Heck, even Quakers probably are aware of the community effort to catch the eye of Google. It is not just localized either. Greenville is showing …
Thinking about Google Apps for your business?
Homeland Secure IT, LLC can assist you with a move to (or from) Google Apps. We are a reseller of Google Apps and can help determine if using an “in the cloud” solution is right for you. Some interesting news is that Google has made it (somewhat) easy to migrate from your current Microsoft Exchange system to their hosted solution. …