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Hosted QuickBooks Solution by OC Cloud9 Most companies want to streamline their daily operations to generate a greater profit. Migrating to a reliable and secure financial accounting software solution is one of the most beneficial decisions a company can make. It’s imperative that financial data is easily managed and securely encrypted.  There are only a […]

“Do Not Pay the Ransomware”! This alert was issued after an alarming increase in the number of hospitals, businesses, and people that are receiving Ransomware threats. The alert was issued on March 31 and offered a description of the Ransomware for which healthcare and other organizations should be on the lookout. Both government agencies strongly recommended that […]

Locky is a new crypto-ransomware that showed up a few weeks ago for the first time. It comes through Email as a Microsoft Word or Excel document, .doc Invoice. This ransomware has been infecting over 90,000 computers a day, according to FORBES. According to Microsoft, Locky is being distributed by Email with an attachment, usually a word […]

Cyber hackers took down the hospital network at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center. The criminals took the Hospital offline on February 5th and would not give them their data unless they received a ransom of $17,000 in Bitcoins. Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center staff had to utilize handwritten notes and faxes because they could not use their computer systems.  The hackers […]

  Hybrid Cloud Implementing a hybrid cloud solution can spark both excitement and criticism amongst an organization, raising as many questions as it often answers. Companies will focus on how using the cloud will deliver increased agility, efficiency and productivity; but predicting the answers provided to clients is ever-changing depending on which Cloud Solution Provider is […]

Cloud 101: Are you ready for the cloud? Ok, it’s time for a technology reality check…Physical on premise network hardware is becoming extinct. Cloud Solutions are here to stay because they simply make sense. Many companies often wonder if they are ready for The Cloud since the term itself is so vast and the explanations about what […]

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis – a major reason companies migrate to the cloud – typically consists of pure number crunching. For example, hardware for a server upgrade has a fixed price, as does the software license. Paying for those incremental resources through a utility billing model is often much more cost effective. It’s […]