Posts Tagged ‘Managed IT Services’
4-Steps to Ensuring Proactive Maintenance & IT Support for Your Business
In our digitally dependent world, a blackout of any duration can damage profits and client confidence. Yet 70% of companies, both with internal IT departments and those using hosted IT vendors, take a patchwork approach to managing their infrastructure. These businesses receive lackluster IT support at best, waiting for problems to occur and then…
Read MoreA Fully Managed IT Services Provider Can Revolutionize Your Company’s IT
In our younger days, we loved pretending to be firefighters. Running a tech-dependent business can feel like the game never ended. We’re always rushing to put out the latest fire, only to see another one spring up somewhere else in the system. It’s exhausting, expensive, and inefficient. A fully managed IT provider, like Advance, can…
Read MoreProtecting Yourself, Your Employees, & Your Business on Cyber Monday
Cyber Monday is a wonderful thing – instead of fighting through the masses on Black Friday, those of us who value our sanity choose to purchase our holiday gifts at discounted prices from the privacy (and safety) of the Internet. So, what is the issue, one may ask, with this apocryphal holiday? If you’re a…
Read MoreMobile First: The Risks & Rewards
Over the past decade, we have seen mobile device usage continue to grow, both for personal and business use. In 2014 we rounded out the year with a massive 1.2 billion devices sold, up over 28% from 2013. With statistics like that, it has become clear that mobile is here to stay and the way…
Read MoreIs Your MFD Technology Secure?
Technology is changing ever so rapidly and there has never been a better time to ensure the security of your data transmissions. In just about every business activity, data is sent or retrieved in some way or fashion to or from the cloud. For your typical end-user he or she has no idea how that…
Read MorePassword Considerations in the Wake of Heartbleed
You may be wondering if the recent OpenSSL “Heartbleed” security vulnerability affects you. The answer is yes, it affects everyone regardless if you are an Advance customer or not. Many of the websites you visit on a daily basis use OpenSSL to secure communications. This includes sites that require usernames and passwords to access those…
Read MoreRicoh’s Mobile Printing App Just Got Smarter
Earlier this month, Ricoh released an amped up version of Neusoft’s Smart Device Print app in the App Store and Google Play—Smart Device Print & Scan. The app comes with all the bells and whistles of its predecessor (the ability to print wirelessly from a mobile device) with the added feature of scanning from Ricoh’s…
Read MoreBut Are You the (Information) Master of Your Domain?
I think Kramer on Seinfeld posed it best when he asked Jerry: “But are you still master of your domain?” Strange as it sounds, it’s a good question to ask yourself when it comes to your business. Are you really mastering all you can in regards to your business? Where does that start? If you’ve…
Read MoreMoving to a Hosted Exchange Solution? Verify Your Devices are Supported…
Believe it or not we will be entering the 2nd quarter of 2012 very shortly and the push to move applications to The Cloud has never been more prevalent. As an organization you may have decided to embrace various Cloud technologies within the past couple of years such as a hosted Microsoft Exchange Online solution…
Read MoreTriage in Real-time
This is a great example of how Advance employs various technologies and support techniques to correct issues within a clients network. Whether Advance is remotely monitoring your devices, performing remote support, or triaging issues on site, rest assured that we have the technology and resources to get the job done.
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