Under Section 179, your business is eligible to deduct up to $25,000 worth of equipment as long as it is purchased and operational by December 31, 2014.
Phones, computers, software, office equipment and office furniture qualify for this deduction. If you need to replace aging infrastructure or if it’s time for faster computers, discuss your situation with your tax professional. Making this Section 179 investment can help you save dollars and reduce your up-coming tax bill.
Your team at Alvaka Networks can help review your IT systems and suggest replacements of old equipment, networks and even entire phone systems. Many of our clients in Orange County, Los Angeles County and Riverside County are taking advantage of this important depreciation opportunity.
Hurry, you have less than 30 days left for qualifying purchases under Section 179!
Smoke testing is a term used to describe the testing process for servers after patches are applied. 
Estimating an average time for patching servers and PCs can be a bit tricky. It can vary from one month to the next, depending upon the number and complexity of the patches released by your software vendors. You must consider all versions of operating systems and have a complete inventory of all your application software to do this job correctly. Our experience has shown that manual patching of systems takes on average of about 1.5 hours each.
This is a basic cost calculator for you to compute your typical monthly cost for patching your servers, PCs, laptops, tablets and associated application software. It also forms the basis for you to begin calculating your Return on Investment for software patching, or for comparison with alternatives to the manual process of patching operating systems and application software—such as Patch Management as a Service, also known as Vulnerability Management as a Service.