Bytes & Bites is almost here! Our biggest tech event of the year is quickly approaching, so we wanted to make sure you have all the details.

On April 20, the quiet grounds of TekLinks' home office will transform into Birmingham's tech epicenter for Bytes & Bites 2017 Technology Solution Summit.

More than 1,000 business professionals, techies, and friends will gather at 201 Summit Parkway in Birmingham for TekLinks' most fun and informative tech event of the year. And, thanks to generous sponsors, it's all free to the public.

An employee receives an email from his company’s CEO, or at least he thinks it’s the CEO. He clicks the email’s attachment, unknowingly downloading malicious software. Within minutes, the damaging code has locked the business’ system, rendering it useless until a ransom is paid to unlock it. This sounds like the makings of a TV crime show, but it's not. Ransomware attacks happen every day.

We couldn’t be prouder of the hard work and dedication that the students and staff at Oxmoor Valley Elementary School put into raising their ACT Aspire test score status to passing. Every year, the state of Alabama performs standardized testing in math and reading.

CRN has named C Spire Business to its 2017 Managed Service Provider (MSP) 500 list in the MSP Elite 150 category. The annual list recognizes North American solution providers with cutting-edge approaches to delivering managed services.

Self-proclaimed "Nerd at the Nerd Ranch" Brian Bufalo is TekLinks' Internal Support Administrator. He's agreed to take a few pictures of his workday for our photo series My Tek Life.