ForeSite Insight

I was one of approximately 100 I.T. Professionals in attendance at the Hartford Security conference June 21, 2012 at The Crowne Plaza in Cromwell.  It was a valuable day of information with two major themes repeated in all of the speaker’s programs:

Zero Day Malware
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)

I will take these one at a time [...]

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 [...]

On February 23, 2012 President Obama released the “Framework for Protecting Privacy and Promoting Innovation in the Global Digital Economy”. The main purpose of this act is so that individuals are able to control their own privacy settings.  It is important for consumers to be aware of this bill so that they are aware [...]

On Thursday, February 16, 2012, Senior Network Engineer at ForeSite, Bill Reyor appeared on the Fox CT Morning Extra Show.  In the segment Bill, along with William Genovese, appeared with Fox CT’s tech reporter Rick Hancock, to promote a free computer clinic put on by the New England Society of Information and Technology (NESIT), on [...]

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.

Irene came and went, and overall CT and MA fared better than expected. But how did your organization feel when the possibility of a natural disaster forced a test of what you did or didn’t have in place for protecting your network and critical data?

There are some basic best practices that you should consider BEFORE the next “disaster” strikes, be it weather, fire, theft, or the most common – hardware failure.

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 [...]

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 [...]