Posts by Kevin O'Brien
Is Cloud Computing Right For Your Business?
Here’s everything you should know before moving your business to the cloud. Ah, the cloud. You’ve heard it touted as the biggest IT innovation since the app, streaming and virtual reality goggles combined. Yes, it’s full of potential. Yes, it has plenty of pitfalls. No, you are not late to the party. Cloud technology is, in…
Read MoreSecure Your Company’s Data Anywhere with Mobile Device Management
Everyone likes a good story, so let’s start with a dream scenario: Every morning your company’s sales team hits the road armed with a mobile arsenal of phones, tablets, and laptops. No longer tethered to the office, they’re free to focus on cultivating leads and delivering exceptional service to existing clients. They quickly become your…
Read More4-Steps to Ensuring Proactive Maintenance & IT Support for Your Business
In our digitally dependent world, a blackout of any duration can damage profits and client confidence. Yet 70% of companies, both with internal IT departments and those using hosted IT vendors, take a patchwork approach to managing their infrastructure. These businesses receive lackluster IT support at best, waiting for problems to occur and then…
Read MoreA Fully Managed IT Services Provider Can Revolutionize Your Company’s IT
In our younger days, we loved pretending to be firefighters. Running a tech-dependent business can feel like the game never ended. We’re always rushing to put out the latest fire, only to see another one spring up somewhere else in the system. It’s exhausting, expensive, and inefficient. A fully managed IT provider, like Advance, can…
Read MoreProtecting Yourself, Your Employees, & Your Business on Cyber Monday
Cyber Monday is a wonderful thing – instead of fighting through the masses on Black Friday, those of us who value our sanity choose to purchase our holiday gifts at discounted prices from the privacy (and safety) of the Internet. So, what is the issue, one may ask, with this apocryphal holiday? If you’re a…
Read MoreMobile First: The Risks & Rewards
Over the past decade, we have seen mobile device usage continue to grow, both for personal and business use. In 2014 we rounded out the year with a massive 1.2 billion devices sold, up over 28% from 2013. With statistics like that, it has become clear that mobile is here to stay and the way…
Read MorePassword Considerations in the Wake of Heartbleed
You may be wondering if the recent OpenSSL “Heartbleed” security vulnerability affects you. The answer is yes, it affects everyone regardless if you are an Advance customer or not. Many of the websites you visit on a daily basis use OpenSSL to secure communications. This includes sites that require usernames and passwords to access those…
Read MoreHere’s Windows 8!
As you may know, Windows 8 was released last month to the public. If you’ve had a chance to play with the new operating system you quickly notice that many changes have taken place since Windows 7, especially on the front-end. The new metro interface is loved by some and hated by others. Design objections aside, the…
Read MoreMaking Sense of Mobile Printing
Mobile printing has really taken off within the past year or so and now the market is flooded with various options. As a consumer it can be challenging to make the software comparison and choose the right option for your company. Advance has taken away most of the guesswork and offer many solutions to help…
Read MoreWide Format Software Enhancements
I was speaking with a colleague of mine a few weeks back who mentioned that our wide format offerings could use more blog space. With KIP launching some new software products not that long ago I can’t think of a better time to put this out so here it goes… If you are a current…
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