Island Joe Group

I’m often asked which antivirus product we recommend. My standard answer? None of them, but you have to have one. I’ll cover our specific software recommendation in a subsequent blog post. For now, there are a few important things to remember about antivirus software and computer and network security in general. 1)      Antivirus software, almost [...]

At Island Joe we’re sure by now that you’ve heard of “the cloud.” Everyone is talking about it. What the cloud is… First and foremost, the cloud is not a technical term: it’s a marketing term. Ask any IT contractor, vendor, or consultant and you’ll get different answers. Most of us have cloud applications and [...]

In our last green IT post we discussed how precious resources, such as gold, silver, or copper, can be extracted from electronics.  This process of extracting metals and other usable materials from things such as discarded cell phones or old hard drives, is sometimes referred to as urban mining.  It is not only environmentally friendly, [...]

It’s the Wild West out there. Much like the law men of the Old West, anyone can throw up a shingle and announce he or she is an IT consultant. Some folks may moonlight as IT contractors, just as law men on the frontier frequently found work outside of law enforcement. And, again like the [...]

With so many working Americans spending at least 8 hours a day in front of computers, linked to network devices or other peripherals and using electronic media, information technology is an area ripe with opportunities to help our environment and cut costs. Take the lowly printer cartridge as just one example. Companies that still print [...]