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Voyage Technology has been serving the Beaver Dam area since 1999, providing IT Support such as technical helpdesk support, computer support, and consulting to small and medium-sized businesses.

Stop IT Stress and Turn to Proactive Support Instead

Stop IT Stress and Turn to Proactive Support Instead

I was talking to a friend the other day who runs a successful company. He’s the type of guy who knows his inventory down to the last decimal point. Still, when we sat down for coffee, he looked exhausted.

"I’m just so tired," he said, "One day the printer is offline, the next day one of my guys can’t sync his files. Just this morning, I got a suspicious email that looked a little too much like an invoice from my own CPA. I’m spending four hours a week playing the IT guy. I don’t know what I’m doing."

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Stop Hoping, Start Backing Up: Essential Data Backup Best Practices

Stop Hoping, Start Backing Up: Essential Data Backup Best Practices

Every day, your business generates a massive amount of data. Your staff sends and receives emails, produces documents, updates customer records, and stores financial information. This data isn’t just a byproduct of your work; it is the fundamental engine that keeps your organization operating.

But here is the reality: data is fragile. It can be lost in an instant due to a hardware failure, a simple human mistake, or a malicious cyberattack. When that happens, your business doesn't just slow down—it stops.

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How to Manage BYOD (Without the Headache)

With smartphones as accessible as they are, it’s no small wonder how company-only policies have all but faded into obscurity in the workplace. Whether you allow it or not, you can bet that your team is using their smartphones to get work done, whether it’s checking email from their couch or sending you a quick DM. In other words, you need a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy, as it is practically the new accepted standard.

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You Need to Temperature-Proof Your Business, Starting with Its Infrastructure

You Need to Temperature-Proof Your Business, Starting with Its Infrastructure

The climate is a weird, weird thing… and when you introduce it to your critical business tech, things only get weirder. Extreme temperatures are harmful to technology at whichever end of the spectrum you’re talking about, hot or cold.

In short, the wrong temperature conditions can kill your tech prematurely.

This makes it essential that your business IT is properly prepped for such extremes, regardless of which end of the spectrum seems more likely. That’s where we can help.

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The 3-2-1-1 Rule Adds an Extra Layer of Security for Your Redundancies

The 3-2-1-1 Rule Adds an Extra Layer of Security for Your Redundancies

Backups are a common subject in IT and in business alike. You can think of them like your spare key or the spare tire, where they are the emergency fix for when you do something silly or something unexpected comes along. But with business, the stakes are higher, and when your company’s data is at risk, a simple backup approach—unlike the spare key or spare tire—is not going to be enough.

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