Entries by Garin Livingstone

Join us at the Corridor-9 Business Expo

The Corridor 9 (Chamber of Commerce) Business Expo will be held on Thursday, April 2nd, at the Doubletree Hotel on 5400 Computer Drive in Westboro from 4pm until early evening.  Admission is free.  Register at www.CorridorNine.org. Bryley Systems will be exhibiting in Booth 62.  

Second, consecutive year on MSPmentor® 501: 2015 Global Edition – Worldwide  

March 26, 2015:  Bryley Systems Inc. ranks 462 on Nine Lives Media’s eighth-annual MSPmentor 501: 2015 Global Edition – Worldwide Company Rankings, a distinguished list and report identifying the world’s top 501 Managed IT Service Providers.  (Managed IT Service Providers, or MSPs, provide their clients with outsourced IT management and functions, typically at a predetermined […]

Bryley Basics: Apps to scan business cards into your smartphone

Melissa J. Perenson of ComputerWorld recently updated her review of seven apps in the article: “Tired of Losing Business Cards? With These Apps, Your Smartphone Can Do the Heavy Lifting.” Business-card apps scan a business card via your smartphone’s camera; once scanned, the image is converted into text and then placed into the appropriate fields […]

Pros and Cons of Private Cloud versus Public Cloud

Cloud computing is the grouping of Internet-based computing resources to provide efficient, effective, agile access at a pre-defined price; it has been compared to a utility, where costs are metered against usage.  (Visit Wikipedia’s definition.) Organizations turning to the Cloud can select from these deployment options: Public Cloud – Available to all paying users (public) […]

Audrey Baker & Greg Livingstone Join The Bryley Team

Bryley Systems Inc. Continues to Grow as a Managed IT Services Provider Hudson, MA-February 6, 2015-Bryley Systems Inc. hired Audrey Baker as Sales Administrator and Gregory Livingstone as Network Engineer. Ms. Baker brings over 20 years of experience in sales administration and management, with intimate knowledge of and expertise in IT and IT-security issues. She […]

Bryley Basics: Introducing Microsoft Windows 10

With the usual hoopla, Microsoft previewed Windows 10 at its Redmond, WA offices on Wednesday, January 21st.  What they unveiled was a solid attempt to provide one operating system for both PCs and for mobile devices that adapts to the device on which it is installed. Prominent, new features include: Internet Explorer 12 and a […]

Recommended practices – Part-6: Manage end-users via Active Directory

This is a multi-part series on recommended IT practices for organizations and their end-users. Additional parts will be included in upcoming newsletters. End-users and their equipment (PCs, tablets, mobile devices) need access to network resources (servers, printers, scanners, etc.); basically, a network administrator connects the end-users with the appropriate resources while matching that access to […]