Last Saturday night, the Gosford Chamber of Commerce held their annual business awards. Loyal I.T. Solutions was nominated in two separate categories Excellence in Business Ethics and Business Leader. I am happy to announce that we won the Excellence in Business Ethics award. We had won this the previous year, so we remain the 2015 title holder. Congratulations to Ian Stewart who won the Business Leader award. I am really proud of winning the Excellence in Business Ethics award...

One again, Loyal I.T. is getting involved in Zoo and Snooze. This is the major fundraiser for the year for Coast Shelter. Coast Shelter do awesome work on the Central Coast. Their goal is to end homelessness on the NSW Central Coast. Zoo and Snooze is an executive sleep out, where each sleeper needs to raise $1000 to sleep rough at the Australian Reptile Park. This is on Friday 7th August. We are a team of 7, so our goal is $7000. A special thank you to Michael Trimblett, Naomi, Ra...

Are you using MYOB in your business? Where is your data file located? Do you back it up regularly? One of our clients recently experienced data loss with their MYOB system. This particular client uses us on an ad-hoc basis. Their understanding was that the MYOB data file was on the server, therefore, it was being backed up by the server backup system. The PC that had MYOB loaded onto it had a hard drive failure. It was at this point that they realised that the MYOB data file was on...

The recent Federal budget has incentivised small business by offering a 100 per cent deduction for equipment purchases to a generous limit of $20,000 per item. What could that mean for your business? So, computers, cars, vans, kitchen equipment, tables and chairs, machinery, tools, servers, laptops and other items costing under $20,000 can now be 100% written off. The immediate deduction applies to as many items as a business can afford. Assuming the budget measures are passed, the...

Well, a number of our clients have come to us to help them develop a disaster recovery plan (DRP). One such client is Community Care Services. Community Care Services are an organisation that provides dementia support services to people in our local community. So when a storm hits, their services cannot just stop, they are needed more than ever.
The office for Community Care Services is located out at West Gosford. They were hit hard. At time of writing, there was still no power, and...