Are you looking into using mobile technology to benefit your business and meet your business operation needs? If yes, Certified CIO is here to help you get started the right way. This article will tell you about mobile technology and how it can benefit your business today.

What Is Mobile Technology?

Mobile technology is portable technology. Some examples of mobile technology are laptops, netbook computers, smart phones, Global positioning system (GPS) devices, and personal digital assistants.

The Communication Technologies Of Mobile Devices can do a range of technology communications to help you stay in touch with your business and family alike. For example, mobile devices can be enabled to use wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) to browse the World Wide Web at wireless hotspots for both business communications and everyday communications.

Your mobile technology can let you use private networks to allow you to access your data in a secure fashion or make conversing with business partners, friends and family easy through Bluetooth applications to offer you global systems for mobile communications (GSM).

No matter where you are in the world, mobile technology can be networked to your home office or Internet while travelling.

Here Are The Benefits Of Mobile Technology:

Mobile technology offers many benefits because mobile computing allows you as a business owner to improve the services you offer to customers. For example, mobile technology could provide you access to your customer relationship management systems when meeting with your customers away from your office. It can do this all over the Internet, including allowing you the capability to update customer details on-the-go. Or you can have a more powerful mobile solution directly link you into your office network while you are working off-site.

The mobile solutions are so powerful they can give you access to your office database and accounting systems right from your wireless mobile device.

Here is a list of more benefits mobile technology solutions can offer:

-The mobile solutions could help you setup new customer accounts.

-They could help you check prices and stock availability.

-You could place an order online.

No matter your business needs, mobile technology is available to find your business solutions.

If your business is ready to reap the benefits of Mobile technology today, let Certified CIO serve your needs.

We will provide you guidance regarding entering the world of mobile Internet and give you a free consultation regarding how mobile technology might benefit your business!

Certified CIO can help you stay connected. We will help you manage mobile Internet Hardware and Software support, Network and System Proactive monitoring, Network Services, Information Assurance, Off-site Backup, Web Design and more!

If you have any questions, contact Certified CIO by calling 443-283-0666 or click here today!

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Do you know about the benefits and threats of offsite backup? If you do not, we are here to help you become informed. Read on to learn what you need to know about offsite backup before using this type of service for your business.

One thing all businesses should practice is good backup habits. Your business can lose valuable data at anytime, if an offsite backup service is not available for use. Storing valuable data solely on your company’s hard drive is not the best option. Another common bacup solution is tape or casette (RD 1000) backup - these require assiging someone the task of changing tapes and taking them offsite in case of a disaster. The best option is offsite backup.

Offsite backup can support network backup from Local Area Networks (LAN) and Wide Area Networks (WAN). Just as long as you have a suitable location for your data you may even be able to setup your own internal backup configuration – offsite backup can be easy and fast.

Offsite backup means your business data will be on an external drive at another location that will lessen the chance of catastrophic loss. This is a perfect solution especially if your company has several locations because your business data can be backed up over a network to the offsite source.

Also you have the offsite backup option to use a special server provided by the company providing your backup solution. This special server will use its own protocols to encrypt and transfer your business data prior to transfer over any public internet connections.

If you need reliable and safe offsite backup services today, contact Certified CIO.

Benefits of CertifiedOBS - Offsite Backup:

-100% Reliable - no more missing tape changes or searching for lost tapes when you need to do a restore!

-Error-free - all encrypted packets are CRC checked for accuracy!

-Reduced work load - no one assigned to change the tapes and take them offsite daily.

-Save time and money! (In both employee time and tape expenses!)

-Native support for Shadow Volume Copy in Windows Server 2003, 2008, Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7!

-Easily configured - no difficult to understand management interfaces!

Don't let your business suffer!

For only pennies a day, you can sleep tight and work better knowing that when disaster strikes your Certified CIO has you protected!

Certified CIO offers CertifiedOBS for our clients and other interested parties. You do not have to be a Certified CIO support services client to use CertifiedOBS Services. Our server provides automatic offsite backup of your critical data at two locations (Baltimore, MD and York, PA).

Key Features:

-Baltimore, MD

-Reisterstown, MD

-Columbia, MD

Bowie, MD

-York, PA

-Hanover, PA

-Chicago, IL

Certified CIO can help you stay connected. We will help you manage Off-site Backup, mobile Internet Hardware and Software support, Network and System Proactive monitoring, Network Services, Information Assurance, Web Design and more!

If you have any questions, contact Certified CIO by calling 443-283-0666 or click here today!

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Are you a mobile Internet user? If yes, you need to be informed on how to work securely from wireless hot spots (Wi-Fi) when you are on the go. We are here to help you stay safe and productive when using your mobile Internet. Follow our three tips on working securely from Wi-Fi to enhance your mobile experience.

Mobile Internet is available on wireless ready devices such as your laptop, netbook, and smartphone. Your Wi-Fi hot spots can be paid services such as your phone services or they can be available for free in public connection areas. Some free public connection areas are coffee shops, restaurants, libraries, bookstores, airports, trains, and hotel lobbies.

But the big concern is whether Wi-Fi hot spots are safe.

When you are at a public Wi-Fi hot spot, you are browsing the Internet on open networks. This makes your mobile device very vulnerable to security breaches because there is no encrypting of data. Your passwords, email messages and other data on your mobile device can be visible to hackers.

Here are some ways to protect you from data theft in Wi-Fi hot spot areas:

Disable Your Wi-Fi Adapter

When you are not at your job or home, you can turn off your mobile device Wi-Fi capability. If you do not do this, you have the risk of connecting to malicious hot spots without your knowledge. Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP all have a switch for you to disable your Wi-Fi adapter.

Protect Your Email With Https

If you select the https on your email account settings, you can help protect your email messages. However, there is still potential at public network areas for your information to no longer be encrypted. Nonetheless it is better to have your https connection that includes encryption enabled than simply having an http connection.

Encrypt Your Files On Your Mobile Device

Another great security tactic is encrypting your files so that a password is required to open or change the files. This tactic must be completed manually so only implement password protect on the files you will need to use when on the go in public connection areas.

If you would like some guidance regarding entering the world of mobile Internet or if you would like a free consultation regarding how mobile technology might benefit your business contact us today!

Certified CIO can help you stay connected. We will help you manage Off-site Backup, mobile Internet Hardware and Software support, Network and System Proactive monitoring, Network Services, Information Assurance, Web Design and more!

If you have any questions, contact Certified CIO by calling 443-283-0666 or click here today!

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Source: Wi-Fi: 8 tips for working securely from wireless hot spots 

Are you looking for ways to securely back up your business data online? If yes, we are here to help you safely do it by providing you tips on successfully backing up your data online and off-site.

Your Online backup will be done automatically. It will never be stored at your place of business. As a small business you might be worried about the affordability of online data backup but there are features you should look for in service options that can benefit your business without hurting your wallet.

Online data backup is beneficial to any business because it doesn’t need to be manually processed. Manually processing is very time consuming and financially costly because everything is backed up at your place of business with CDs, DVDs, hard drives and tapes. All of these items can be destroyed in a disaster such as a fire.

Online data backup is more beneficial because it can be encrypted and needs no manual processing. You will have a unique encryption key to access your data. The wonderful thing about encrypted data is that no one can access your data, even a hacker, because it is encrypted. This makes your data not usable if it gets intercepted by someone who does not have authority to handle the sensitive data.

When looking for a company to handle your online data backup, you need to make sure they store your data in more than one location. You always want multiple versions of your archives. You should always have the option to access an earlier version of your data if you accidentally delete information, your data has a virus, or information gets lost. This is the main purpose of online data backup – to protect and recover your data when necessary.

A professional online backup service should have customer service anytime you need to call for help. Do not settle only for email support.

For reliable online back data services, let Certified CIO serve you. We will make sure your online data backup is simple and safe to use.

Top Reasons to Backup Your Data with CertifiedOBS:

1.     Fires and Natural Disasters can strike anywhere at any time

2.     Human Error can often cause more damage than failed hardware

3.     CertifiedOBS is easy to use

4.     Among companies that do not back up data, more than 50% are forced to close and 90% cease operation within 2 years!

Benefits of CertifiedOBS - Offsite Backup:

• 100% Reliable - no more missing tape changes or searching for lost tapes when you need to do a restore!
• Error-free - all encrypted packets are CRC checked for accuracy!
• Reduced work load - no one assigned to change the tapes and take them offsite daily.
• Save time and money! (In both employee time and tape expenses!)
• Native support for Shadow Volume Copy in Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP!
• Easily configured - no difficult to understand management interfaces!

Don't let your business suffer!

For only pennies a day, you can sleep tight and work better knowing that when disaster strikes your Certified CIO has you protected!

CertifiedOBS is offered by Certified CIO for our clients and other interested parties. You do not have to be an Outsourced CIO client to use CertifiedOBS Services. Our server provides automatic offsite backup of your critical data at two locations (Columbia, MD and York, PA).

Key Features:

• Protect all of your desktops and notebooks easily!
• Support for Windows, Linux, Mac, NetWare, and Solaris!
• Support for Exchange Server, SQL Server, Oracle, Lotus Notes, and MySQL!
• Supports In-File delta backup and real time data replication to a secondary offsite location for added reliability and security.
• Secure and reliable!

CertifiedOBS can serve clients anywhere in the United States.

Certified CIO can help you stay connected. We will help you manage Off-site Backup, mobile Internet Hardware and Software support, Network and System Proactive monitoring, Network Services, Information Assurance, Web Design and more!

If you have any questions, contact Certified CIO by calling 443-283-0666 or click here today!

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