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How to Know When It’s Time to Outsource Your IT Projects The role of IT in an organization is more critical than ever before. As an organization’s technical footprint grows, so does its threat landscape, and maintenance obligations. Burdened with standard management, firms of all sizes ...?

What Is Co-Managed IT Services, And Why You Should Be Thinking About It Now Managing the IT infrastructure of an organization is never a one-person job. As such, businesses develop IT teams to handle all IT services. However, more and more companies, especially (small-to-medium-sized businesses) SM...?

Picking VoIP or phone service vendors for your business can be a tedious exercise. There are dozens of options out there, local and national providers, and reviewing costs against pages and pages of terms of service can be a drawn out process. We can all agree, fine print is a foe of clarity and pro...?

We’ve worked with a lot of firewalls here at AlphaRidge. Every now and again we encounter a real dinosaur, firewalls as old and clunky as a cassette player (okay, maybe not that old but you get the picture). While Apple might push you on a yearly upgrade, not all hardware has nor should it hav...?

Every single day thousands of phishing attempts hit inboxes around the world. Many of them will be far less obvious than others. But what is phishing, and why is it so harmful? What are some techniques to help you identify and avoid phishing attacks? Phishing is the attempt to access sensitive info...?

Recent studies have suggested that as much as 85% of software development projects fail. Often an organization will bring on a software developer without an in-depth consideration of the resources – both financial and otherwise – that software development projects demand. Alpha...?