Social Network Knows No Borders

I received an email from a gentleman saying that someone mentioned that I could help him with a computer issue he was having. Thing is, he was not in my geographic service area of Greenville and the Upstate of South Carolina. He was not even in our state. He was from Arizona. Now it is not uncommon for someone to …

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

There, I said it! “Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!”…. It has been a long week here at Homeland Secure IT, with everyone tied up on a job almost constantly! Server deployment started today. Four computers sold and to be installed for one client, and another computer sold and going in on Monday… Not to mention a 1 TB RAID array installed in an existing …

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Free Microsoft T-Shirt

Homeland Secure IT, LLC has sponsored a couple Microsoft events where we showcased Microsoft products such as Microsoft Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Microsoft Office 2010 (due out later this year), and Windows 7. Because Microsoft can actually be pretty cool and we partner with them, they gave us some neat promotional products to give away at these events. …

Google High Speed Fiber Internet Still THE Hot Topic in Greenville

If you are from the Greenville / Upstate area you would have to be living as a Quaker to not know about all that is going on with the effort to bring Google Fiber here. Heck, even Quakers probably are aware of the community effort to catch the eye of Google. It is not just localized either. Greenville is showing …

Google On Main Was A Total Success!

Last night my wife Pamela, daughter Megan and her friend Christina attended Google On Main along with hundreds of others and formed the letters that spelled out “Google” while swinging LED glow sticks over our heads and posing for photos and videos as a helicopter and plane flew over. What a blast! What does it all mean? It means that …

Google High Speed Fiber Coming To Greenville SC

Okay, the title is deceiving, as Google has not picked where they are going yet… However, we here in the Upstate are hoping that Google will select Greenville, SC as their test bed for 1 Gig of fiber awesomeness! This Saturday, many people are planning on meeting downtown in Greenville in an effort to make everyone in the world aware …

Thinking about Google Apps for your business?

Homeland Secure IT, LLC can assist you with a move to (or from) Google Apps. We are a reseller of Google Apps and can help determine if using an “in the cloud” solution is right for you. Some interesting news is that Google has made it (somewhat) easy to migrate from your current Microsoft Exchange system to their hosted solution. …

Business Continuity Plan – Power Protection

In our own continued effort to maintain a business continuity plan at Homeland Secure IT, LLC, we are now looking into a generator system. Currently, in the event of a power outage, we have uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) from APC that will keep our main servers and desktops online, however, we will be in the dark. These UPS (UPSes? UPSii?) …