Agile Computer Support – IT services for small business in central CT

Did you know that throwing away your computer and electronic office equipment is against the law in CT?  Does your office have a closet, room, or even an entire basement of old equipment?  Yes, we see those all the time.  The famous “bone yard” of aged, broken, or obsolete technology. The practice of throwing away [...]

Do you operate a company with less than 30 computers in central Connecticut?  Have the need for reliable computer help at the office and at your home office?  You might have tried the big box stores roving computer support. If you found them to be very expensive and not very personable…look no further.  Mike is [...]

There are many support options available for small and mid-sized businesses today…freelance ‘experts’ that work by themselves, computer school graduates looking for experience, and ‘moonlighters’ who have a full time day job. Are they reliable? Will they be there quickly (less than 90 minutes) if your network is in trouble? Can they help you avoid [...]

The pace of life often slows during the summer while we focus on vacation plans and outdoor fun.  This is true for us computer nerds EXCEPT when those steamy summer days bring lightening storms.  Those storms often cause your electricity to spike or suddenly drop off.  Bad news for your computers and network equipment unless [...]

Media computers are essentially a pc optimized to interact with your television programming, internet, and audio systems simultaneously (yes including playing back iTunes music).  Could your office conference room use one of these?  Some of our clients love their media pc for meetings, presentations, and staff break time. Here are some quick facts on a [...]

This week a client of ours utilized an awesome tool to control a ‘bandwidth hog” application.  A little background is that the client performs  pre and post production editing for television programs.  So they are working with HUGE files that need to be transferred from their network to offsite clients.  And even in this day [...]

With the recent summer electrical storms several of our clients have experienced power outages.  Their servers were protected by APC batteries and powered off safely.  Emails going to their Exchange server were spooled up at spamsoap.com.  So when the lights came on all was back to normal…except blackberry phones.  The blackberry internet email service periodically [...]

Hello everybody.  Like most technologies it takes a while before the latest greatest trickles down in a form factor or price point for small businesses.  But given a few key factors we are seeing more clients choose to go w/ a virtual server in lieu of  second or third physical computers.  What are those factors?  [...]

Over the years we have seen spyware crop up and take over the #1 spot for computer annoyances.  What is worse than browsing the web and then seemingly out of nowhere your computer is all hosed up?  It’s truly been a war.  Spyware popped up many years ago exploiting the necessary file transfer between your [...]

This is a blatant plug for a vendor that we use and recommend to all our clients.  We started using spamsoap many years ago when junk email really went off the charts and our clients were clamoring for a solution.  After trying a slew of software add-ons to Exchange server and/or Outlook I cam across  [...]