Month: March 2022

Oak City IT Tech Shorts 04: Cost of Lacking Backups

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Do you know the cost of lacking backups?

During the pandemic the only spreading more rapidly than the virus might be ransomware. Call hackers bluffs when you have a bulletproof backup plan.

cost of lacking backups

In early 2020 organizations paid an average of over one hundred thousand dollars for ransomware demands. You can’t afford to waste that on false promises from bad faith hackers. We can help you setup a backup strategy to keep data and systems online. Even if you lose computers in a natural disaster, your business will be fine.

More than just ransomware, your hardware will break some day. We have already helped clients with both of these underlying issues recover their data, repair or replace their devices, and get back online. A lot of the downtime, pain, and costs can be avoided by having a backup plan in place now for the inevitable problems that will occur.

That’s why we are encouraging new clients to join our flexible subscription plans where we include backup plans, virus protection, and remote monitoring with our support. Our plans offer you a 30 days cancellation policy. We want to earn your trust through reliable work that addresses your core concerns, not contractually obligating you to trust us.

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Oak City IT Tech Shorts 03: Move Outdated Tech to the Cloud!

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Cloud Circuit

Move Outdated Tech to the Cloud

Do you know how much your out-dated tech costs?

Many companies have already moved to the cloud and the pandemic has made it imperative that everyone does.

Depending on who you ask, from about twenty five percent up to nearly seventy five percent of all workers want to continue working from home after the pandemic. Are you losing out because your tech isn’t flexible?

Cloud Circuit

Most tech services can be run in the cloud. That provides you the flexibility to work in multiple offices, at home, or on the go. Do business anywhere with anyone. The best are everywhere.

Out of date technology locks you into a rigid system that’s not flexible enough for today’s marketplace. Worse it might break at any time! And often it happens at the worst times possible!

Business continuity plans require you know how you’re backing up data and plan for replacement equipment.

Cloud systems provide resilience to disasters, rapid changes to your business operations, and even do it all while being more secure and cost effective!

We created a test lab with Microsoft Azure earlier this year and are happy to recommend that to your business. If you already have AWS never fear, we have plenty of experience with that as well. We have a deep understanding of the fundamentals. Therefore we can confidently help you with any cloud system if you want to try a different one.

So why not move your outdated tech to the cloud?

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Oak City IT Tech Shorts 02: On-boarding Automation

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Windows Settings

On-boarding automation takes everyday tasks and makes them a breeze. Do you know how much your on-boarding and off-boarding cost?

You’re growing fast and have a booming internship program that’s great, right? Sure, but it takes a lot of time and money to maintain.

Setting up each employee’s laptop manually takes a technician four hours of labor. The employee cannot work until it is ready.

We can set up a provisioning system that installs all the needed software and configurations to multiple laptops at the same time. It takes a minute of setup and fifteen minutes of automatic configuration. That’s less than 1 percent of the paid labor and twelve percent of the down-time.

Perhaps your business is rapidly growing customers? The on-boarding process there requires many repetitive tasks we can help you automate. You want a streamlined process for new customer intake that collects all the relevant information from them, responds automatically and then creates a profile on your sale database? We can help you set up a system on your company’s website that’s quick and easy for anyone with an Internet connection to do business.

Ready to level up your security? Need a new software tool installed on all of your employee’s machines or even just one departments? Automation systems make this work a breeze and we can get everyone patched up and set up quickly getting you back to work.

But what if I use a Mac, or Linux machines, or a combo of all the above? There are options for mobile device management (MDM) that we can use to help you manage all your business’s tech assets from smartphones to laptops to servers.

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Oak City IT Tech Shorts 01: Server Downtime Costs

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Server Room

Do you know how much your server downtime costs?

You’re rolling with cloud only back-ups but it could be costing you lots of downtime.

A Windows server update automatically installed but it broke your primary office server. Worse, your only backup is an untested cloud system so you get that started and wait. And wait some more. Because the cloud has a slow download the total restore took…guess how long? A few hours? A day? Try a week of real-world downtime. We’ve helped businesses with similar problems and you can trust us to setup redundant on-site data back ups that would have your server restored in minutes.

If you know your server’s amount of data usage you can calculate an estimate yourself with this great tool.

Server Downtime Costs at a Datacenter
Servers at Datacenter

We rely on tech services to get our daily jobs done just like any tools. When your servers get knocked offline you’re missing out on those tools. This can mean your document data, chat, email, phone, printers, version control, productivity software, accounting software, CAD systems, or countless other tools you rely on. Calculate your productivity loss by the number of employees relying on that service and their hourly wage. Add in the cost to your image and reputation with customers and the time you will be unable to do business with them.

Everyday we risk downtime from outages. Most people fail to prepare to manage downtime in a way that optimizes costs to keep you online doing what you do best.

Do you know how much your server downtime costs? Sign up at oakcityit.net/#ContactUs to claim your free quick start discovery today.