BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY….THEY FIT HAND-IN-HAND IN TODAY’S BUSINESS WORLD.  WE BRIDGE THE GAP TO HELP YOU MANAGE YOUR IT SERVICES. SingerLewak’s Business Technology Management Services (“BTMS”) are geared toward working with growing businesses to help them achieve the benefits of combining forward-thinking IT with forward-looking business objectives. For many...

I know I wrote that ‘Recover or Resume’ was the question….but the what’s the question that supports the need to begin with? WHAT CONSTITUTES A DISASTER in the first place? This is what Phase 1 is all about in this process.  Now remember what I said, EVERY business needs to plan for this.  EVERY business will do this differently and at...

Buzz aside, virtualization is not a new technology.  Multiple operating systems have been hosted in mainframes for over 30 years.  Four recent trends have moved virtualization to the forefront in today’s computing environments.  When you look at these trends, you can easily see that virtualization is much more than a fad; coming from an industry that has...

If you are of the mind that everyone else in the world understands virtualization, while you’re still trying to understand just what it is to begin with, and how you might take advantage of it or not, you’re not alone. Virtualization is a new technology.  (Actually, it’s a pretty well-established technology, but a merging of conditions happening just now has...

TECHNOLOGIES CHANGED THE WAY WE DO BUSINESS – WHICH WE NOW CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT By Rick Mark Service Area Manager Remember when you first saw the iPhone? The first release was originally dismissed as a small player in the enterprise, especially compared to the BlackBerry, at that time. Now, just about every corporate executive, not to mention...

Business Continuity Planning (BCP) is a process of identifying a company’s threat exposure from a multitude of angles, processes, including hard and soft asset availability during an incident.  These angles all fit into two separate overlying categories:  Internal threats and External threats.  The word ‘threat’ has become synonymous with anything that could...

It’s very easy to get caught up in the Android versus iPhone duel and Google’s recruiting battles with its newly-public Silicon Valley neighbor, Facebook. But neither one of those companies worry Google executives as much as another that is actively taking money out of their pockets. This company is from Washington, but no, it’s not Microsoft....

Hark! Who goes there?  Are your computers secure at the most basic level? With 6.5 million passwords stolen from LinkedIn and another 1.5 million passwords stolen shortly after from E-Harmony, possibly by the same hacker, password security is at the front of the minds of all computer users.  Since users of thoseservices had to change passwords, it would be a...

WHY IT’S OK IF AN ELEPHANT SITS ON MY LAPTOP By Rick Mark | Service Area Manager Are you ‘Clouded’ by today’s virtual technology? If you are, then dropping your laptop in a pool of water, out of a moving car, or even if it was stolen, wouldn’t really matter would it? Of course not! If you have embraced cloud computing, then your...

So most of you know me as a tech-geek-extraordinair…few of you know me as an automotive enthusiast, customization and performance consultant and developer…and lover too!  Here’s some GREAT tech that helps the bottom line in a way you may have never thought of. If you love your car, deal with manufacturing and distribution trucking and more...