December 1st, 2013 – Cipher Systems Inc has launched a marketing campaign to increase their Datacenter offerings to include hosting. Cipher Systems Inc has the ability to host your website, your network, disaster recovery, business continuity. Microsoft has solidified their Office 365 offering and made it so enticing that offering hosted email is no longer the best way to go. It costs just a couple of dollars per month now to have email with Microsoft and their Office 365 accounts. Don’t worry about collaboration and IM/chat because they have that handled as well with their Lync and SharePoint offerings. Microsoft has done a great job, with partners like Cipher Systems Inc, we’ve been able to customize our solutions to maximize our support options and lower our costs.

Cipher Systems is offering our Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity hosting packages. We can ship your virtual machines or images of your physical servers to our Datacenters throughout the United States. Depending on bandwidth, which we can recommend, we can ship images every 10 minutes, every hour, once a day; completely customized to your business need. We have the tools to make sure your business is taken care of in the event of a disaster.

Cipher Systems can also host your entire network in its world class Datacenters. We’ve seen a surge of small businesses now looking for affordable hosting. Not of their applications, but of their entire networks. SaaS(Software as a Service) is absolutely fantastic but what if your application doesn’t current provide it? It will, no doubt, but maybe not yet. However, you don’t want to lose sleep at night worrying is my server going to have an issue or is my data safe and secure. Cipher Systems is a small business, and therefore, we support other small businesses. We offer competitive prices and can work with you to completely customize your support package with Cipher Systems Inc.

Please call us today to work on customizing your support package. We can be reached at 516-320-6828 or through email at support@ciphersystemsonline.com

Cipher Systems, Inc., formally Cipher Systems, was established in 2004 by the current CEO of the company. Shortly after it was not only scheduled to become incorporated, but the decision was made to bring onboard another set of hands to accommodate the direction in which the IT firm was heading. Since then we have worked with numerous residential clients as well as various businesses and government agencies. Cipher Systems, Inc. has been created to bridge the gap between technology and its users. We work hand-in-hand with businesses that staff anywhere from under 10 or more employees to Fortune 500 companies.

In the past week or so, there has been a nasty virus that is infecting computer systems all over the world. It normally is deployed via a zip file in an email. This virus encrypts your word, excel and PDF files so that you cannot open them at all. It infects your local computer as well as every document on the network in which you are the author. It corrupts the file. There will be a popup on your screen which basically tells you either pay me $300 or restore your files from backup. I have done some research on this and apparently if you pay the guy the $300 through paypal, he will actually decrypt the files for you! (How nice of him). Unfortunately this is not something that anti-virus is currently picking up because it’s not really doing anything out of the ordinary. The best thing to do is stay educated and don’t open ANY emails if you do not know who the sender is. For additional information, please give us a call at 516-320-6828.

I just got a new laptop today, which prompted me to write this blog about office setups. It’s good to know what your IT professional has under their desk. Currently, I am running a pretty standard DELL desktop, it’s running Windows 8.1, has 8GB of RAM and 4 23″ screens. This is my main work computer, I normally keep Outlook open on one screen; Microsoft Lync which is our communication platform open on another, and then I have 2 screens for everything else I am working on. I also have a second computer, it happened to be my old PC, an Alienware(which was at home, I now have a newer one). It runs an additional 2 monitors and I use this computer for monitoring and alerting dashboards for all our clients and connections. It gives me a kind of one stop shop view of everything we manage.

My laptop, which is newly out of the box, is a Lenovo Helix. This is probably the greatest machine, I’ve ever used. It’s absolutely fantastic. It runs well, and is extremely mobile. It has the tablet option, I can just release it from this docking station that converts it into a regular laptop. It’s built up also, Core i7 processor, 8GB of RAM, and a SSD hard drive. If you have never used a Solid State drive before, after using this one, you’ll never want to go back. It’s really slick and fast!!

Opposite me is Chris, he is the President of Cipher Systems Inc, he runs about 12 monitors to try and get everything done he is working on. He custom built his desk to support the PC he runs and the amount of monitors he uses. It’s a really slick setup. He also has the same type of setup where everything important sits on its own screen so he can have a real-time view of everything he does and quickly move between applications.

Our other engineers have pretty awesome setups as well. We as a company encourage our staff to be very personal and allow them to basically do whatever they want with their desks. We believe it makes for a much better working environment. We provide anywhere from 2-4 monitors and if something is laying around the office not being used, it’s pretty much up for grabs on who will get to use it.

In our business, computers are what keeps us as one of best service providers on Long Island. By having access to the most amount of data possible in the shortest amount of time; it allows us to multi-task, fix user issues and craft the best solutions for our clients.

For more information, please give us a call at 516-320-6828.

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