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How business continuity plans can fail

How business continuity plans can fail

Your service provider, who you have tasked with looking after your company’s IT, has kept your business up and running for the past 10 years. Usually, that kind of longevity in developing continuity plans has resulted to some providers overlooking or underestimating certain issues.

Are your site’s images hiding an attack?

Are your site’s images hiding an attack?

As more and more content management services are released to aid SMBs in online marketing, security risks also increase. One such helper is the image processing service ImageMagick. And while it has proven useful to countless businesses, it is now something you should be concerned about from a security standpoint.

7 Twitter tactics to get more retweets

7 Twitter tactics to get more retweets

Managing your company’s Twitter account can be tricky. You have a lot of brilliant things to say in under 140 characters but the problem is getting more eyes on your tweets. What’s worse is that there are other companies competing with you to grab that attention.

Tap into the benefits of the human cloud

Tap into the benefits of the human cloud

Companies have increasing opportunities to tap into a virtual, on-demand workforce that’s proving to be a third-generation sourcing ecosystem for key talent. The human cloud offers a competitive advantage for startups and SMBs to compete with large enterprises by leveraging specialized skills and expertise that are outsourced globally.

Essential Microsoft Word formatting tips

Microsoft Word has been around for over 20 years, and for better or worse it has become increasingly complex. What started as a simple text editor has evolved into a multifaceted piece of writing, design and collaboration software. No matter how much time you spend with it, there are always new tricks to learn that let Word streamline your document creation.

Are you sufficiently cooling your servers?

Every business sits on top of a foundation of different building blocks that enable it to operate smoothly and efficiently. One building block that is becoming increasingly essential is IT hardware. Server hardware can be expensive, which is why proper management is vital.

Are you using this effective marketing tool?

There are many marketing techniques SMBs use to gain clients. Free information products, brochures, and press releases are just a few among many. But how do you know what’s most effective? It all comes down to looking at data and seeing for yourself what’s worked before.

Finalist for the 2015 InnoVision Education Award

HillSouth has been named as a finalist for the 2015 InnoVision Education Award. The work that HillSouth performed in partnership with the Governor’s School for Science and Mathematics’ Accelerate program allowed it to become a finalist for...

HillSouth has been named as a finalist for the 2015 InnoVision Education Award.

HillSouth Joins SCRA Technology Ventures as Resource Partner

HillSouth joins with SCRA to grow the economy of SC. Through its flagship SC Launch program, this SCRA business sector makes investments in and offers support services to South Carolina’s early stage, start-up technology companies

SUMMERVILLE, S.C.     We are proud to announce the acceptance of two new companies into our SC Launch Program and one into the Resource Partner Network.

[Infographic] Your Users Make Terrible Passwords

Let’s face it, of all the risks to IT security, people are the largest. It doesn’t matter how secure your building and network are if an employee with access hands the keys over to a criminal. That’s what your users may as well be doing if they’re using any of these passwords.

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