Ahoy Matey, What's a Toner Pirate?

As long as there have been products and services, there have been scams. Email scams, pyramid schemes, phony contests, just about every aspect of life and business has a scam of sorts tied to it. In the world of office supplies, our scam artists are notoriously referred to as toner pirates. Just like the real pirates, these guys are after your gold! 

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Is the Cloud Enough? Protecting Your Data Backup

You have decided to move to the cloud. No, not up in the atmosphere, but rather you have decided to go to a hosted IT solution. You're done managing your local hardware and you have already made the leap to cloud-based software, and figured, “I am already using all of their processing apps, why don’t we just leverage the full cloud storage system?" The ease of use, access from anywhere with internet, ability to collaborate, consolidation of tools and resources… the list of benefits goes on and on. Oh yeah, and I don’t have to keep my backups, right?

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Kicking off The Worst Copier in KC Contest 2018

If there’s one thing we’re passionate about at SumnerOne it’s keeping our customers up and running at peak efficiency. We know printers and copiers have a bad reputation of ruining your day but there’s something to be said for having the support of a great company behind your equipment to keep the headaches at bay.

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In Case You Missed Us: Disaster Recovery on Tech Talk with KTRS

We've talked about it before, and we'll continue to talk about it. Having a disaster recovery plan in motion can literally save your company should your data be compromised. Our IT expert, Randy Moore, joined the good people over at The Big 550 KTRS for Tech Talk to chat about why disaster recovery is important both in the office and at home.

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The First 30 Years of SumnerOne

Our founder, Bud Sumner, once said, "As technology changes, so does Sumner Group. We are not going to be a victim of not changing with technology." Bud made this statement over fifty years ago, and we've been running with it ever since.

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4 Modern Day Technologies Born In The Greatest Country In The World

\We wanted to celebrate this patriotic holiday by celebrating a few great technology inventions that were born right here in the USA! Inventors are some of the most intelligent and creative people this world has ever come across, without their great minds this world would be a very different place. Let's take a minute to think about some of our favorite technologies that were created, born, implemented in the USA and used all across the globe!

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Data Loss - It'll Never Happen To My Business, Or So You Think

Imagine this: You're the CEO of a company on your way into work in the morning. You are running late but, you decide to stop for coffee anyway. You drive into the office parking lot and you notice there is a ton of traffic. You decide to pull around the corner and immediately, you see it. A fire has erupted, and its in your office building. The area is taped off and no one is allowed inside…

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