Hardware Purchasing

Ever try to decide which computer to purchase? It’s not as easy as you thought. How much memory do you really need? Which processor? Does it matter? Admit it — they all look alike, but you know they aren’t.

Whatever you choose, you’re going to be stuck with it for three years or more. Whether you need a desktop, laptop, convertible (yes, that is a type of computer), or tablet, we can help. We order so many different types of hardware, from computers to routers to printers to storage arrays, that we have seen it all. We can help you choose the computers and systems that work best for your business. We understand the difference between business-grade and consumer-grade systems — you wouldn’t buy a single-room AC unit to cool a high-rise, would you?

Why guess when you can ask us to help? We love fitting people with the right machine for their needs. It’s a bit like being a tailor: right CPU, appropriate amount of memory, plenty of storage, and, best of all, a warranty.

We can set your system up for Proactive IT Services from day one — that way, your pristine, beautiful, and efficient new computer stays that way.

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Expert guidance, from planning to procurement.

Here at CMIT solutions, we offer only the most relevant and cost effective small business products for your small business needs.

As a Dell Premier Partner, the highest level of Dell partnership, we’re experts on Dell’s desktops, laptops, workstations, servers, and networking equipment. We offer the latest in Dell small-business computer equipment and systems, all tailored to your business’s needs. In addition to great deals and discounts on Dell small-business hardware, we can source and install the business software packages you rely on most.

Looking for support or to purchase a new Mac or other Apple products?
Learn about our support for Apple.

Avoid spending money on hardware and software you don’t need or can’t use. CMIT Solutions will perform a thorough assessment of your hardware, and software, requirements before you make a purchasing decision; so, you can make sure you’re getting the best value for your business.

Once we’ve developed a solid hardware strategy, we’ll help fast-track your purchase. Need help setting it up? We can do that, too. Contact us today.

DEVI MAZUMDAR – OWNER
210-243-2337CMIT Solutions of San Antonio NEhttp://www.sanecmit.com/14080 Nacogdoches Rd, San Antonio, TX 78247

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Email Archiving, Access and Recovery

At CMIT Solutions, we like to say that email is the lifeblood of business. What other communication tool is as vital? How else do you rely on staying in touch?

Ask anyone who uses email, though, and they’ll tell you that bad things happen — especially at crunch time. An important message disappears. An attachment ceases to exist. An auditor comes calling for a past communication. An email server crashes, rendering your employees unable to work. That makes email archiving, access, and recovery critical for business success.

Our email solution solves these problems, preserving all inbound and outbound emails, providing instant search and discovery tools, satisfying industry regulations, and ensuring secure, encrypted access via webmail in case of outages or failures.

Don’t rely on luck to keep your email up and running. Call an expert and treat the lifeblood of your business with the care it deserves.

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Keep every email, forever.

Ensure the protection, preservation, and continuous operation of your business email, while providing on-demand email access for users. If your internal network or email server goes down, users can still access secure RADAR servers over the Web. Bottom line: you can still get to your email without any downtime, mail queuing, or “bounce-back” messages.

If you need absolute assurance that you’ll be able to find old emails when you need them, you need CMIT RADAR.

More emails don’t have to mean more problems.

Regulations around records retention change over time, but they’re all moving in one direction: more records for longer. So what’s a small business owner to do? Tape backups are an option, but they’re unreliable, difficult to search, and no help at all if they’re stored onsite and lost in a catastrophic event. High-end enterprise storage can cost a fortune, and gives you more bells and whistles than your small business really needs.

CMIT RADAR stores all your emails digitally, offsite, in a secure Class A data center. You have full, searchable access to your archive whenever you want, at a price you can afford.

You don’t need anything extra.

RADAR is a cloud-based service that filters email and attachments for spam and viruses, indexes the cleaned emails, and then saves them in an encrypted archive. You don’t need extra hardware, client-side software, or IT support. With RADAR, you can treat email kind of like electricity: it’s just there. But RADAR goes one step better, because if your local power goes out, you can still reach for email from another location.

HOW CMIT RADAR WORKS

All incoming, outgoing, and internal email goes through the RADAR gateway. Email and attachments are filtered for spam and viruses. “Clean” email is indexed and then encrypted in the active archive for secure, long-term retention. Users can instantly identify email and attachments on RADAR’s Web interface and then download them directly to their local inbox.
Permanent storage.

Email storage volumes can really add up over time. With RADAR, that doesn’t matter: you’ve got permanent storage for every email you send or receive, for as long as you want to keep it.

Fast retrieval.

RADAR has a simple online interface that lets you instantly recover any email or attachment from the archive and move it into your local inbox — without assistance from IT. If you’re ever involved in a legal process where you need to locate a lot of emails quickly, this can make a big difference for your business.

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CMIT Solutions is a trusted IT partner for small businesses trying to do more with less money and time.  CMIT provides responsive, professional support for the entire technology infrastructure, performing regular ongoing maintenance, monitoring, and backups – everything necessary to ensure an efficient, safe, and reliable computer environment.  

If you need some additional information Call us we can help.  

DEVI MAZUMDAR – OWNER
210-243-2337CMIT Solutions of San Antonio NEhttp://www.sanecmit.com/14080 Nacogdoches Rd, San Antonio, TX 78247

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Remote Backup and Disaster Recovery

Sure, you’ve got a data backup solution…right?

But does it work?

When was the last time you checked?

Do you have a repeatable process for recovering both your data and your business should the unthinkable happen?

If you are like most of our clients, you might be sheepishly looking away from the monitor. Nobody wants to acknowledge that they may have a critical gap in their business operations — especially not when it’s in an area that everyone knows is critical.

Therein lies the problem. Knowing what you need when it comes to data backup and business continuity isn’t that simple if you are not an IT ninja. When was the last time you thought about recovery time or recovery point objectives?

Let us help with the details. We can set your business up with the appropriate level of both data backup and business continuity plans that are right for your business, no matter what size or industry. We have solutions that span a wide range of situations and scenarios.

Not sure what you need?

Contact us for a quick chat. And do it now — without remote backup and disaster recovery, you’re rolling the dice with your data and putting your company at risk.

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Secure Backups for Small Business

If your small or medium-sized business suffers a catastrophic data loss, it almost certainly will fail. It’s that simple.

Catastrophic data loss is one of the most detrimental events that can happen to a small- or medium-sized business (SMB). According to the The Underwriting Guide for Insurers, only six percent of mid-size companies that suffer catastrophic data loss ever recover. Yes, you read that correctly. Only six percent. 43% never reopen, and 51% close within two years of the disaster.

Unfortunately, data loss is a relatively common occurrence. Hard drives die, and even automated backups sometimes fail to archive every single file correctly. Data loss becomes catastrophic when a sizeable, or vital, set of data becomes unrecoverable.

Our Remote backup systems can prevent catastrophic data loss and could potentially save your company.

CMIT Guardian offers a full suite of disaster recovery tools, all of which are customizable to suit the needs of your small business:

• DISASTER RECOVERY PLANNING
• SECURE REMOTE BACKUP
• EMAIL ARCHIVING
• MONITORING SOFTWARE

Guardian is more than just a remote backup system—it’s a business continuity plan designed to keep your company open and operational after a data disaster.

GUARDIAN DELIVERS:

Peace of mind. All data is secured with 128-bit encryption during transfer and stored securely offsite. Customers can use a provided encryption key or manage their own private key to encrypt data. Guardian automatically backs up new and changed files, so even in the event of disruption or disaster you can recover virtually all of your most recent data.

Disaster recovery, tailored to small business. You don’t need an enterprise-level solution with multiple redundant data centers, but you do need redundancy. Guardian automatically backs up to offsite storage, and can run a virtual image of your environment if any of your existing servers fail. And, whereas other business continuity solutions might require a complete rebuild and reinstallation of key databases and applications, taking up to a week or more, Guardian’s storage and virtualization capabilities allow you to perform a full restore in less than 48 hours.  Click Here to Watch a Technical Demonstration of our Disaster Recovery

Increased productivity. Guardian protects against spam, delivers email archiving, and provides continuous online access to email in the event of hardware outage, so users stay in touch and productive.

CMIT Guardian ensures a catastrophic loss of data will never happen with data disaster recovery planning, secure remote backup, email archiving, and monitoring software. Guardian also makes an automatic on-site backup and has the ability to use that backup as the live environment if a crash occurs. We secure all data with 128-bit encryption during transfer and test the backups to ensure we can recover. Guardian backs up new and updated files, guaranteeing full recovery in less than 48 hours. We help you define the backup process so your backup protects not only your data, but all of your business systems.

Guardian is available in three different plans, which can be customized to meet your business and your budget.

Contact CMIT Solutions for pricing and details.
Or learn more about the remote backup, disaster recovery, archiving capabilities of CMIT Guardian.

If you need some additional information Call us we can help.  

DEVI MAZUMDAR – OWNER
210-243-2337CMIT Solutions of San Antonio NEhttp://www.sanecmit.com/14080 Nacogdoches Rd, San Antonio, TX 78247

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Spam. You know it. Not the wonderful stuff in the can...

Anti-Spam Software

Spam. You know it. Not the wonderful stuff in the can, but the other kind. Maybe you’ve only thought of spam with respect to your home computers, and not in your business environment. If that’s the case, then it’s time to think again.

Spam is the world’s nastiest Trojan horse. When it comes into your business email account, the havoc it wreaks can be devastating. Malicious email and virus attacks are more sophisticated than you think. The damage spam can cause may cripple your network, compromise your corporate data, and bring your productivity to a screeching halt.

Every single system we manage is fitted with CMIT-Anti-Spam. 
That’s how seriously we take the situation.

Ask us how we can protect you and your business.

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Say goodbye to spam and hello to dramatically increased productivity.

CMIT’s Anti-spam software protects against spam, viruses and phishing exploits outside the corporate network.

• BLOCK EMAIL-BORNE MALWARE.
• AVOID UNSOLICITED OFFENSIVE MATERIAL THAT COULD BE PERCEIVED AS CREATING A HOSTILE WORK ENVIRONMENT.
• AVOID THE MAINTENANCE AND MANAGEMENT REQUIRED FOR ON-SITE HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS.
• COMPLETELY ELIMINATE FOREIGN LANGUAGE SPAM THAT OFTEN BYPASSES TRADITIONAL DEFENSES.
• SECURE THE LOCAL EMAIL SERVER BY ELIMINATING MULTIPLE ACCESS POINTS.

Our Anti-spam software also prevents outbound email from spreading viruses and spam.

• PROTECT YOUR REPUTATION WITH A SAFEGUARD THAT PREVENTS USERS FROM INADVERTENTLY SENDING SPAM & VIRUSES.
• PREVENT YOUR IP ADDRESSES FROM INADVERTENTLY GETTING BLACKLISTED, WHICH CAN PREVENT YOUR USERS’ LEGITIMATE EMAILS FROM REACHING THEIR RECIPIENTS.
• IDENTIFY POSSIBLE COMPROMISED PCS THAT CAN LEAD TO THE LEAKAGE OF SENSITIVE CORPORATE INFORMATION.

Keep inbound email in queue in case the local mail server fails or the power goes out.

• INCOMING EMAIL IS NOT BOUNCED OR LOST WHEN YOUR LOCAL EMAIL SERVER IS DOWN FOR ANY REASON.
• LOCAL EMAIL PROBLEMS ARE INVISIBLE TO EXTERNAL SENDERS, BECAUSE NON-DELIVERY RECEIPTS ARE NOT SENT.
• DELIVERY OF INCOMING MAIL RESUMES AS SOON AS THE LOCAL EMAIL SERVER RETURNS TO OPERATION.

Block high-volume spam before it reaches your corporate infrastructure.

• NEUTRALIZE VOLUME-BASED DIRECTORY HARVESTING AND DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACKS.
• SAVE THE BANDWIDTH OTHERWISE CONSUMED BY SPAM AND MESSAGES TO UNKNOWN USERS.
• AVOID THE NEED FOR HARDWARE (HARD DRIVE, MEMORY, CPU) UPGRADES TO CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE COMPONENTS.

If you need some additional information Call us we can help.  

DEVI MAZUMDAR – OWNER
210-243-2337CMIT Solutions of San Antonio NEhttp://www.sanecmit.com/14080 Nacogdoches Rd, San Antonio, TX 78247

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New Mac OS X Vulnerability Threatens All Versions

In recent months, Apple has been increasingly on the receiving end of unwanted attention from the hacking community. Apple’s OS offerings have long been touted as being more robust and secure than Microsoft’s Windows, and so far, the company is living up to that reputation. The reality, however, is that given the sheer number of iPads and iPhones in use around the world today, the company is an attractive target for the hacking community.

Security company SentinelOne has recently discovered the latest flaw in Apple’s OS X operating system, which bypasses the SIP (System Integrity Protection) protocols the company has in place to prevent local privilege escalation. SentinelOne describes this non-memory corruption as being stable, extremely reliable, and logic based. It does not crash the machine or process that it takes over, which would give the device’s owner a clue that something was amiss. In short then, this zero day vulnerability is something that is less likely to be used by your run of the mill hacker than it would by nations, sponsoring highly targeted stealth attacks against other nations.

By their nature, zero day flaws are extremely difficult to discover, simply because the engineers who designed and built the devices in question aren’t looking for them. For the same reason, these kinds of flaws are virtually impossible for antivirus software to detect, because the software works by looking for symptoms or virus signatures it can match to the database of known threats.

In any case, so far, Apple has had a stellar track record when it comes to patching vulnerabilities to their system, in many cases, releasing a patch just 48-72 hours after a flaw is discovered. It’s possible then, that by the time you read these words, Apple will already have a fix released, or at least a firm date for it. At this point in time, however, they do not.

 If you need some additional information Call us we can help.  

DEVI MAZUMDAR – OWNER
210-243-2337
CMIT Solutions of San Antonio NE
http://www.sanecmit.com/
14080 Nacogdoches Rd, San Antonio, TX 78247

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Microsoft Upgrade Deadline Extended But Don’t Wait Too Long

Microsoft really wants everyone who uses their OS to upgrade to Windows 10. In fact, this desire is so strong, that they’ve taken a remarkable step. Going forward, all new chipsets produced by Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, and others will only support Windows 10. You won’t be able to upgrade your old hardware with newer, faster, better chips, unless you also upgrade your OS.

There is a small but vocal minority of users that have been upgrading their hardware to stay current, but have kept using older (now outdated) operating systems. Reasons vary from one person to the next, but there are some legitimate concerns for these folks, including legacy support and backwards compatibility issues. Some older applications may not run at all on Windows 10, and it’s going to be both difficult and expensive for these users to upgrade. They may not have a choice, at least not if they want to keep getting security patches.

Microsoft has been understanding, and has extended the deadline for support cutoff on a couple of occasions, but the bottom line is that the day’s coming when you’ll no longer be able to get support. The company has given a variety of dates, so some users may be confused by this. We’ll lay those dates out here, and what they mean:

July 17, 2017 – This was the original deadline set by Microsoft. As of this date, if you’re using Intel’s latest “Skylake” chips, but running Windows 7 or 8.1, you will be restricted to only the most critical updates and security fixes.

July 17, 2018 – This was their compromise with the group mentioned above. A one-year extension to continue receiving critical updates.

After this date passes, the only updates available will be critical patches that address security issues. There will be no additional functionality updates, critical or no. The final deadline for Windows 7 (no more updates at all, including no additional security fixes) is January 14, 2020. The final deadline for Windows 8.1 (no more updates at all, including no additional security fixes) is January 14, 2023. It is unlikely that Microsoft will be swayed to push these dates back further, no matter how loud the chorus of complaints gets. If you’re in this boat, it’s best to start planning for the inevitable now.

If you need some additional information Call us we can help.  

DEVI MAZUMDAR – OWNER
210-243-2337
CMIT Solutions of San Antonio NE
http://www.sanecmit.com/
14080 Nacogdoches Rd, San Antonio, TX 78247

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New Malware Can Hijack Your iPhone

There’s another new attack vector to beware of if you own an iPhone. This new attack, called AceDeceiver MITM is quite possibly the most convoluted attack the hackers have come up with yet, and stands as an excellent example of just how far the hackers will go to get to your personal information.

To set the stage for this attack, the hackers purchase an app from the Apple store, taking advantage of a flaw in Apple’s DRM protection module known as FairPlay. They save the authorization code, then design software that simulates the iTunes client behavior sufficiently to trick iOS into believing that the app was purchased by the target victim. This enables the app to be installed on the phone without the user’s knowledge or consent. Once installed, the app is used as a launch pad to install whatever else the hackers desire. Other apps, snooping protocols, and the like.

Convoluted or not, it’s a stunningly creative and effective attack that’s virtually impossible to stop. The only outward sign that you’re being targeted will be new icons for Apps that you don’t remember installing.

As bad as this sounds, there is a bit of a silver lining. For the moment, at least, these attacks have been restricted to users in China, so unless you’re there, odds are that you won’t run afoul of this attack. The hope, of course, is that Apple will be able to close the security loophole that makes this attack possible before it becomes more widespread, although at this point, there has been no word from Apple regarding a time frame for the fix.

This latest attack clearly demonstrates just how difficult it is for any tech vendor to completely secure their equipment. The hackers are simply testing scenarios that the design team never envisioned, and it’s working. 2016 is shaping up to be a very busy year in the field of internet security. If you need some help with removing virus Call us we can help.  

DEVI MAZUMDAR – OWNERCMIT Solutions of San Antonio NEhttp://www.sanecmit.com/14080 Nacogdoches Rd, San Antonio, TX 78247

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