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Macro Systems has been serving the Metro Washington, DC area since 1997, providing IT Support such as technical helpdesk support, computer support and consulting to small and medium-sized businesses.

Macro Systems has been serving the Metro Washington, DC area since 1997, providing IT Support such as technical helpdesk support, computer support and consulting to small and medium-sized businesses

Best Practices for File Sharing

Best Practices for File Sharing

Ensuring that your organization's file-sharing policies and procedures are built to enhance security can significantly improve collaboration, distinguishing between efficient, streamlined processes and time-purging, wasteful practices. Navigating this terrain can be a challenge. Listed below are several best practices your business can adopt to optimize file-sharing.

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How to Improve Engagement in a Remote or Hybrid Workplace

How to Improve Engagement in a Remote or Hybrid Workplace

Remote and hybrid work models have become more popular than ever, in no small part thanks to the enhanced technology businesses of all sizes can now access. Nonetheless, this shift has brought new challenges for businesses everywhere. One such challenge is maintaining and enhancing remote workplace engagement—a critical aspect that directly impacts employee satisfaction, productivity, and retention.

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Virtualization can Enhance Your Business

Virtualization can Enhance Your Business

How often does your organization find that it’s struggling with new technology implementation, either on the software side of the house or on the hardware side? Have you considered that the cloud offers powerful solutions to your business’ woes in the form of virtualization? With the right resources at your disposal, you can use virtualization to create incredible opportunities to improve operations for your business and make it more secure and flexible in the process.

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How Endpoint Security Can Help Your Business

How Endpoint Security Can Help Your Business

There are many parts of running a business where you can't be too careful, one of which is the realm of cybersecurity. Many of the preventative measures you can implement aim to keep issues from making their way to your infrastructure in the first place, which makes sense from an operational standpoint. With an endpoint detection and response solution—or EDR—you’ll take an important step toward keeping most threats off your infrastructure.

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Why a VPN is a Potent Security Tool

Why a VPN is a Potent Security Tool

Remote employees are in a conundrum when it comes to data security. While you might be able to protect data stored locally on your company’s in-house network, securing data in use by employees while out of the office is another matter entirely. How can you guarantee that your organization is protecting its data and other sensitive resources from prying eyes?

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How to Utilize Technology to Enhance Your Employee's Wellness

How to Utilize Technology to Enhance Your Employee's Wellness

It isn’t easy to be a member of the workforce right now. While we won’t cover them in detail, plenty of stressors related to and separate from the workplace can easily impact an employee’s performance. As a result, it is often in your organization’s best interest to invest in your team’s well-being, and one way to do this is by implementing and encouraging the use of different technologies.

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Advantages of Encrypting Your Email

Advantages of Encrypting Your Email

Encryption stands as a formidable shield for businesses, fortifying their security architecture. While often discussed in VPN contexts, its significance in securing email solutions cannot be overstated. Why is email encryption indispensable for businesses of all sizes? 

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Why Net Neutrality is Needed

Why Net Neutrality is Needed

The topic of net neutrality has had a tumultuous past few years, with steps forward canceled out by steps taken back. That being said, new efforts are being considered to restore the policies that made net neutrality what it was in the first place.

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What You Need to Know about Cloud Waste

What You Need to Know about Cloud Waste

The cloud has become a go-to resource when businesses are trying to find and consistently depend on digital tools that otherwise would be out of their price range. One cloud problem that isn’t often mentioned in the course of selecting computing resources is cloud waste. Cloud waste refers to the inefficient or unnecessary consumption of cloud computing resources, leading to higher costs without delivering corresponding value. Listed below is a look at some of the impacts of cloud waste and how to avoid it as much as possible. 

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A Look at a Four-Day Workweek

A Look at a Four-Day Workweek

There has been a lot of talk about ways how to get more productivity from your staff. One idea floated a few years ago was reducing the number of days people work to four. Now, if you think, “How does working one less day improve worker productivity?” you aren’t alone. Listed below is a look at the benefits of a four-day workweek.

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5 IT Tools Your Organization Should Utilize

5 IT Tools Your Organization Should Utilize

Information technology provides businesses of all sizes significant benefits, very much including small and medium-sized organizations. Listed below are five modern tools that offer this kind of inclusive utility to the point that we see them as essential for successful business operations today.

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Three Most Important Metrics for Data Backup and Disaster Recovery

Three Most Important Metrics for Data Backup and Disaster Recovery

How often do you think about your data backup system? If you’re like most businesses, it’s something that you will likely set up, then forget about, provided you haven’t had to use it. Still, having one is essential to any modern business, and building it with clear outcomes and metrics in mind will help you make your data backup system more effective for the moments when you’re glad you have it.

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What Can We Learn from the Apple Cyberattack?

What Can We Learn from the Apple Cyberattack?

On Wednesday, April 10, 2024, Apple deemed it necessary to send a rare alert to certain users via email, spread out across 92 nations. As Apple’s website states, these threat notifications “are designed to inform and assist users who may have been individually targeted by mercenary spyware attacks.” Listed below is a review of these attacks so we all comprehend this threat better.

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A Warning about Downloading and Installing APK Files on your Android Smartphone

A Warning about Downloading and Installing APK Files on your Android Smartphone

Your Android smartphone is a computer itself; as such, it runs with an operating system installed. You install programs on your smartphone the same way you install them on your computer, although the process is more complicated. Below is an explanation of the types of files that the Android operating system uses to install apps on your phone, as well as why it might be a good idea to let the Google Play Store do the hard work for you, in terms of locating and installing apps.

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Steps to Policing Your IT Policies

Steps to Policing Your IT Policies

Small businesses are presented with the challenging prospect of monitoring and policing various IT-related policies that you might have for your network infrastructure and workplace technology use. The difficulty of this notion does little to lessen its importance. You need to take action to protect your assets, data, and reputation from the countless threats out there, and ensuring that your employees are properly using technology is paramount to this endeavor.

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Automating Management Tasks Can Enhance Productivity

Automating Management Tasks Can Enhance Productivity

In business technology, automation reigns supreme, especially for tedious tasks that offer little to the individual performing them. Remote management epitomizes such tasks, and strategic automation can greatly improve organizational productivity. Listed below is how automation can help you stay proactive. 

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MSPs Can Help in IT Project Management

MSPs Can Help in IT Project Management

It’s always an exciting time when you commit to a new IT project that promises to change your business for the better. Naturally, the exciting stuff is what comes after the implementation process—a process that can range from easy-as-pie to incredibly complex and stressful, depending on the expertise your company employs.

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4 Ways to Save on IT Solutions

4 Ways to Save on IT Solutions

Are you paying attention to where you spend your IT dollars and whether or not you are making the most of your budget? It’s imperative to assess your needs before making any major technological purchase, including the goals, challenges, and pain points you are trying to solve. With the right approach, you can increase the value you get out of your IT, especially with the following strategies.

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4 Crucial Cybersecurity Mistakes You Can't Afford to Make

4 Crucial Cybersecurity Mistakes You Can't Afford to Make

When considering your organization’s cybersecurity, it is imperative not to lose sight of the forest for the trees… or, in other words, not to forget the basics around which the rest of your protections are built.

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Explaining Network Drives

Explaining Network Drives

You often hear about “drives” when working with technology, but there are many different types that a computer might use in your business's day-to-day operations. Listed below is an explanation about some of these drives do and why you should know where they are and what they stand for.

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