Glitches in a person’s work day are certainly not uncommon.  All business owners are used to putting out little fires here and there.  But for Paul Oster, CEO of Better Qualified, an Eatontown-based firm that provides credit restoration and identity theft services, his little fires were literally burning him out.  When problems with his computer network caused crash, after crash, after crash, he called AMRCON to douse the flames.
“Before AMRCON cleaned up our system, we used a number of independent IT consultants who just couldn’t prevent the constant crashes,” said …

I usually have so much on my mind I just don’t know where to start. I know business has been very busy and balance between work and family has had its challenges. The nice thing about it is that AMRCON has been growing at a steady pace that allows for additional qualified employees to make AMRCON even better. So I’m going to try and leave the business end of the blog at that. We’re very blessed and doing very well. A Thanks to all of our loyal clients.
After all of the excitement …

In today’s world of heightened security with both foreign and domestic threats on the rise, eternal vigilance now more than ever should be the mantra of all Americans including Small Business owners.
What?  What does National Security have to do with me?  Well the short and simple answer is that “Security, being a chain is only as strong as its weakest link”.  Small Business owners are responsible for not only economic growth, but also contribute to the growth of online computing resources on the Internet.
Small Business owners have been feeling the …

When a small business gets bigger, its needs grow too.  David Hernandez, Manager of Old Bridge Funeral Home, is well aware that while growing pains are a good thing, they can also affect a company’s efficiency. 
Old Bridge Funeral Home opened in 2007 as a second location owned by Waitt-Nelms Funeral Home of Morganville.  Unfortunately, when the new location opened, the computer systems were not merged.  “Each office had its own software and no server, which meant we couldn’t share files among the staff,” said Hernandez.  A third location was added …

May really came and went. It seemed as though our move and build-out made time speed up for the most part. Looking forward to the beach months, although I will be less available this year with everything we have going on. However, I make it a priority to put work down for the weekend and we generally spend time at the pool club in Holmdel, NJ with the kids. They just love it. Really the spotlight of the month was my oldest son’s birthday. Santino turned 4 on the 29th, …

 
As networking equipment and servers become more powerful, and costs begin to rise on their support contracts, the environment is usually the last item that is budgeted for. Today, small businesses utilize spare closets, medium businesses may have a dedicated equipment room, and larger corporations will have a custom built data room. As we safeguard our investments against file viruses, email spam, and internet hackers, we have seen in our experience, that the actual monitoring of the network room, is usually sub-par.
Although you don’t need to have an entire Cloud System in your office or a VMWare infrastructure …

 
The new ODS “Virtual System Administrator” interface is almost ready for live launch. We have spent months preparing, building and testing the new function ability of this state of the art server. The entire environment is built on the proven technology of 64bit platform of Windows Server 2008, and utilizes the database scalability of Windows SQL Server 2008.
We decided to install on a HP DL380 server, Dual XEON processor, 10GB of Memory, and 2 RAID arrays, as this is a powerhouse of hardware, capable of handling some of the most system …

Mark Eiger CPA in Lakewood called AMRCON when help was needed to upgrade his technology. When he business grew he needed backup security. Daily & off-site backups. AMRCON’s ODS provides 24-7 help desk. AMRCON is now my technology partner.

April came and went quickly. April is a month I enjoy as it is my birthday, guess my age. Trip to Disney in Florida and the Siesta Keys. May weekend getaways, one at Andover NJ Armed Forces Day. Vote for me in NJBIZ.

Sometimes, it’s easy to forget that municipalities are businesses.  But they are, and like all businesses, they have the same security, human resource, financial transaction, and computer network issues. 
For Colts Neck Township, a small farm community in Monmouth County, New Jersey, years of inputting township records was suffocating its outdated server.  And, with no off-site backup in place, the Township was at serious risk of losing data. 
“We had never seen the need for off-site back-up in the past,” said John Antonides, Chief Financial Officer for Colts Neck Township.  “But we …