Seasons Greetings from First Option

Print Platform Cloud Service

Written by: Tricia Fuller, General | 01st August | 0 Comment(s)

New Offering Through Ricoh USA From the cloud, Print Platform Cloud Service lets you take a proactive approach to your always-on goals by staying on top of the most advanced software solutions and [...]

Your IBM i Administrator is Retiring – Time for Cloud Hosting?

Written by: Tricia Fuller, General | 18th June | 0 Comment(s)

Time for Cloud Hosting and Disaster Recovery Services? Your IBM i administrator/programmer has just announced retirement. She is a 30 year veteran that performs your backups, server management, [...]

iSeries Monitoring Software

Written by: Tricia Fuller, General | 17th April | 0 Comment(s)

iSeries Monitoring Software Watchdog by First Option is an iSeries monitoring software solution that provides centralized management via a user friendly interface for key system health threshold ale [...]

Managed Security Solutions- by Ricoh

Written by: Tricia Fuller, General | 15th April | 0 Comment(s)

Nearly 60% of cyberattacks affect small and medium-sized businesses. *2019 Investigations Report by Verizon New Offering Through Ricoh USA - BullWall RansomCare RansomCare (Ricoh) is a new and inno [...]

Sunset iSeries – Archive

Written by: Tricia Fuller, General | 15th March | 0 Comment(s)

Here's something we are hearing more about these days, "Sunset iSeries or Archive data" What does this mean exactly? Some companies have decided to get off the iSeries platform but need to store t [...]

Happy Holidays from First Option

Written by: Tricia Fuller, General | 20th December | 0 Comment(s)

Happy Holidays Wishing you a beautiful holiday season and a new year of peace and happiness from all of us at First Option! Thank you to all our customers an [...]

Disaster Recovery in the Cloud

Written by: Tricia Fuller, General | 08th May | 0 Comment(s)

New Offering Through Ricoh USA - Disaster Recovery in the Cloud Ricoh’s approach to disaster recovery for multi-tenant VMware cloud environments offers organizations of any size a unique, cost [...]

Searching for an IBM i Cloud Hosting Provider

Written by: Tricia Fuller, General | 12th March | 0 Comment(s)

Here are some tips for searching for an IBM i Cloud Hosting Provider: Make sure you go with a IBM i Cloud provider with an established track record and software expertise. How long ha [...]

First Option Newsletter

Written by: Tricia Fuller, General | 17th December | 0 Comment(s)

Click for newsletter We are approaching the end of 2021 and it's time for our annual newsletter. The IRS has changed the 1099-NEC printed form to a 3-up copy. For the Recipient or Payer/S [...]

Top Four Reasons to go to Cloud Hosting

Written by: Tricia Fuller, Hosted Customers | 28th September | 0 Comment(s)

First, peace of mind - With Cloud Hosting, your system is up and running 24/7 by 365 except for scheduled maintenance. Even with the threat of hurricane Sandy, First Option's iSeries server re [...]