ForeSite Insight

After 6.5 million passwords were stolen from LinkedIn, with 1.5 million passwords stolen shortly after from E-Harmony, possibly by the same hacker, password security is at the front of the minds of internet users.  Users of these sites need to change their password immediately.  Since you’re changing passwords anyway, you should try to make your [...]

After an overwhelming response and more questions about our series on Cloud Computing, we decided to wrap it all together and add some extra content in this free eBook.  This eBook contains all of the great information that was in the individual posts in the series but valuable, additional content has been added by our [...]

ForeSite sees many small businesses (and even medium-sized businesses) not taking the time to plan their IT growth. Using “Band-Aids” for common IT issues (without realizing the ramifications to the network) is common practice. And it’s negatively affecting the bottom line.

We’ve identified three common IT issues you can look at to see if you can improve your bottom line.

Believe it or not, it’s the end of the year again.  Time to not only see where we have been, but to think about where we are going.  Our clients look to us at this time of year to help them plan for next year’s technology initiatives and budget.  This is an important [...]

You probably have a handle on how much you rely on your email, internet connection, certainly the data about your clients and financials. Maybe you even recognize how powerful a tool your website can be. What else should you be thinking about?

Let me start by saying that we strive to go beyond being “vendors” for our clients by combining our expertise and experience in technology with their expertise and experience in their industry and their organization.  That combined approach allows us to be a “technology partner”.  Be careful of the “technology vendor” who is more focused [...]

Without a doubt, the answer to the above question is THE BUSINESS!  But it’s amazing how often we forget this when looking at new technology to implement in a business.  Far too often, a cool new technology noticed by a business owner or the desire of their IT company to play with a new technology [...]

When I was working from home the other day, I started to feel a sharp pain in my side.  At first, it was just annoying but it really started slowing me down.  I was working on filing the forms for my defense in the murder charges that had recently been brought against me which really [...]

Great question.  Maybe you shouldn’t?  We talk to clients about this all of the time and have counseled many businesses into and out of replacing network equipment currently in place.  Often the issue if forced when there is an outage of an aging server but in our network support model we try to be more [...]

As many people in the business community are trying very hard to make the most out of a year when all the cards seemed to be stacked against us, it is easy to put off the task of figuring out what we will spend next year to move our businesses forward again.  While budgeting for [...]