Outsourcing your IT services can be a great way to save money and gain access to the expertise of a larger team of professionals. At ParksideTech, we offer our clients the ability to retain the reliability of their in-house IT team while saving money by outsourcing those services. We have been providing IT solutions in […]
Could your IT person use help sometimes? We have seen that many companies are in a precarious situation: You’re busy enough to need a full IT team but can’t afford to add the overhead in IT tools, employee management and staff – particularly IT specialists with the skills and tools that are only needed part-time. […]
More companies are using IT managed services instead of individual IT guys, and it’s not hard to see why. Every business uses technology and when that technology isn’t working right, people are frustrated, and work gets delayed. So many leaders are realizing that they can save on cost while having a whole IT support team […]
Over on the AZ Big Media website, Aditya Narula, from Kabbage, has a post from late 2018 that provides some great insights into how a company can establish an effective social media strategy. He breaks those insights into digestible, and easily-understood “steps” that anyone can use. However, a few of them could use a bit more info, especially […]
A common strategy of hackers, especially new, young or even unimaginative hackers, is to scour the “Dark Web” for password lists. These are lists of user accounts and passwords that more enterprising hackers get ahold of and then post online for sale. Someone will buy that list, then blanket the email addresses with scary emails […]
Partnering with a company to provide IT services is a big decision. As a business, you need to ensure you’re making the right decision when you talk to companies as everyone seems to do things a little differently. Below are some things you should definitely avoid, and things you should definitely do, when making the […]
A recent article on The Verge uncovered an apparently not-too-secret practice that affects users of ‘free’ email services: third-party developers can, and DO, read your email. This really should not be terribly shocking to people: Google was reading users’ emails for years, gleaning information to ‘better provide services’ while, at the same time, gathering data to […]
As a business owner, it seems like a simple task: get the network set up at your office. You’ve already had an ISP come out and get your office wired and the modem set up. So, the next step is buying a router and getting your network set up and ready for your co-workers. After […]
Facebook is under criticism yet again for their disregard of user data and privacy, and this time, people are taking notice. We recently learned that in 2014, researchers from Cambridge Analytica created a Facebook app for a personality quiz, which gathered participation from over 270,000 users. However, due to Facebook’s loose restrictions, this third-party app […]