It sounds easy: never negotiate with terrorists or other criminals. It’s not so simple, however, as the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center found out after its communications systems were held hostage by ransomware in February. It fought back for 10 days, but after staff at the 434-bed hospital were reduced to pen and paper, the hospital folded and paid about $17,000 to regain access to its system.
9th Annual MSP 501 Ranking and Study by MSPmentor Identifies World’s Most Progressive MSPs in Information Technology
June 13, 2016 – For the third consecutive year, Techify Inc. has been ranked one of the top Managed IT Services Providers (MSP) in the world by MSPmentor.
Outsourcing your IT to a managed service provider (MSP) is supposed to make your life easier. If it doesn’t, something has gone wrong. But improving your relationship with your MSP should be easy enough with one or more of these four tips.
1. Set the relationship up correctly from the beginning
Relationships are strongest when both parties know — and accept — each other’s expectations.
When making a business case to refresh a fleet of desktops or laptops, one number is easy to calculate: the cost of the new hardware. But, as with an iceberg, it’s the numbers under the surface that are more significant. Those hidden costs of pushing a fleet beyond its natural end-of-life increase exponentially.
Should you be entrusting your data to the cloud or keeping it down to earth on your own servers? This is a decision facing every CIO. And it’s one they’ll be forced to justify and revisit regularly for the foreseeable future. That’s because there’s been no knock-out blow in the argument between the cloud and the in-house server.
Wi-Fi is a potential weak link in any network security chain. Whether your employees are using your Wi-Fi to work away from their desks or setting up at the local coffee shop, you need to have appropriate security in place.
Locking down the office
Wi-Fi routers and access points (APs) aren’t secured in the factory.
When it comes to the debate about whether you can get more work done at home than in the office, the interesting divide is between those who have tried it and those who have not. An even 50 percent of those who have tried it say they are more productive at home.
Running a business on outdated equipment is often a false economy. Slow and unreliable machines keep capital costs down but staff costs go sky high. Just ask anyone who has killed time making coffee in the 10 minutes it takes their computer to boot in the morning.
Spam accounts for over 90 % of all email today. Unsolicited, unwanted phishing, spoofing, spyware and other malware carrying emails, are not just a productivity issue, they cause serious security breaches too.
Here are a few tips to avoid having SPAM circulate through your organization and from cause data loss.
We are pleased to announce that Techify is now a Lenovo Authorized Warranty Service Provider and can directly service warranty claims for Lenovo desktops, notebooks, tablets and servers.
Techify received the authorization after an extensive training and an application process with Lenovo.