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The overwhelming majority of small businesses (80%) with less than 75 employees use Microsoft’s Small Business Server (SBS) software. Despite its success, Microsoft will stop selling SBS 2011 later this year, terminating the life support cycle for the software.
Why would Microsoft kill such a successful product?
The advent of cloud computing is perhaps the single most [...]

Recently Google announced that it will shutdown Postini mail filtering services after it purchased the operation in 2007.  This highlights one of the challenges small businesses have if they choose to employ cloud based services- the possibility that the service can be ended at any time. While in Google’s case with postini the small business [...]

East Hartford, CT
ForeSite Technologies, an IT support and web development firm based in East Hartford, marked 15 years in business with a celebration on the Hartford Club patio.
At the event Gail Lebert, publisher, Hartford Business Journal, Beth Miller, development director, Mark Twain House and Museum, and Oz Griebel, President & CEO MetroHartford Alliance, all made [...]

This post by guest blogger Erica Bell  was originally featured in TechRepublic and is reprinted here with permission.
By Erica Bell

Takeaway: Because the first year of a new business tends to be the “make it or break it” moment, small businesses can benefit from hiring an IT consulting firm for a number of [...]

Google’s latest algorithm changes, known as “Google Penguin”, discourages paid links and low quality website links in an effort to reduce spam results.  The idea is that the old algorithm gave certain websites a higher search ranking than they deserved, because those sites were stuffed with keywords which manipulated the search engine.  The new Penguin [...]

On Friday May 11, 2012 ForeSite Technologies’ President Michael Giuffrida, along with Paul Decelles and Phyllis Rizy of YardeZone and George Thomson of Filomeno & Company presented at an invitation only seminar for MetroHartford Alliance investors entitled “Building a Culture of Engagement.”  The seminar was held in two sessions, both in the MetroHartford Alliance offices.
The [...]

RJS Associates has a new web based employment portal, designed and developed by ForeSite Technologies, Inc.
East Hartford, CT
RJS Associates of Hartford, CT, a leading personnel consulting firm, has launched a new web based employment portal which was designed and developed by ForeSite Technologies, an East Hartford based Web Development and IT Services firm. The purpose [...]

Are Two Monitors Better Than One?
Have you ever been working on something that required you to have so many windows open that you couldn’t keep track of them all?  If so, upgrading to two monitors may be right for you.
Having two monitors gives you the ability to spread out everything you have open and look [...]

There is so much technology available to us for both business and personal use which can be great for productivity, but also raises concerns.  What do you consider acceptable use of these tools by your staff during business hours?  Traditional thinking would have you create a 30 page Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) which restricted anyone [...]

So the iPad is cool, nobody is disputing that.  Let’s face it, what has Apple developed since the birth of the Apple IIe that wasn’t cool?  But in business you have to decide, “cool new toy, or valuable business tool?”.  Our recent purchase of iPads for the ForeSite sales team has helped us formulate an [...]