Boosting SMB Security & Support: The Unseen Perks of Co-Managed IT Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) can greatly benefit from the co-managed IT model, where a Managed Service Provider (MSP) works alongside the in-house IT team. This approach offers numerous advantages, often overlooked, which are particularly valuable for SMBs. Here are five lesser-known reasons why this model is gaining popularity: Emergency...
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Co-managed IT services model is one in which the business has its own IT team, but still contracts with an external managed services provider for certain services. In this blog we discuss four benefits of a co-managed IT services model. Expertise Your in-house IT team may not have all the expertise needed to manage all your IT requirements. There are new developments...
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An increasing trend in our client infrastructure sales as costs plunge.
We’ve said it before and will say it again: everything is going in the cloud. Servers, workstations, environments, virtual private networks are all heading into the cloud. It is very rare for us right now to sell an actual physical computer. With the very low cost of cloud-based servers, proliferation and legal requirements for firewalls, and the ability to purchase what you need and not what you want makes the cloud an extremely cheap investment.
For years, people have trusted the SSL certificate green lock on their Google, Firefox, Internet Explorer, edge browser for safety and security. I hate to break it to you, but SSL certificates are broke. The Story of Symantec Security Certificates In the early 90s, a famous company called Symantec was handing out security certificates like free samples of Tide in the mail. Everyone...
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As you may be aware, we are a very AWS oriented shop when it comes to our cloud services. We provision servers, workspaces, EC2 instances, etc., all day long. With our certifications as an AWS Partner, it allows us to concentrate on this single dynamic, powerful platform and perform our jobs extremely well. Below is a story of “you get what you pay for” and how a slight increase in cost can lead to a lot of savings when it comes to dealing with issues.
Read-Only Fridays: Avoiding Weekend Infrastructure Issues As we go into the weekend, we would like to introduce you to something in the IT world known as Read-Only Fridays.Read-only Fridays is a term that the IT industry uses for no major changes to any infrastructure when approaching the weekend. The reason why a simple: support hours from the vast majority of manufacturers...
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A lot of businesses – good or bad – sometimes just shoot from the hip. They make up ideas, policies, and methodologies to suit the immediate need. Sounds good in theory but has very bad scalability. Why IT Policy and Procedure is So Important A Triton technologies we have ex-military for the majority of our administrative staff. The reason why is that we have a...
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Why terms and conditions matter. It has been proven time and time again that people and companies do not read the terms and conditions when accepting the installation or the acceptance of services from vendors. There are many notable cases including some software companies and vetting the fact that they now own your children just as a joke. But in the...
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Vendor Management: Good Vendors are Hard to Find Good vendors are hard to come by.In 16 years of business, we have dealt with literally hundreds of different vendors. From computer manufacturers, network hardware manufacturers, software, physical developers of infrastructure and more, we can say with certainty that good vendors are very hard to come by.Why We Do Vendor ManagementAt Triton Technologies,...
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Why Triton Technologies really loves Amazon.In the IT cloud sphere, there are multiple competitors. You have Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google, Virtual, and many other standalone providers. We have used multiple ones and are currently working with multiple iterations of most of those companies.Nothing is Wrong with Microsoft or Google, But...
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