COVID-19 and changing business needs and how IT can help
The business environment has changed considerably since January, 2020. There isn’t a single business which has not been negatively impacted in some way by The novel Coronavirus and the Covid-19 pandemic. Having the right Los Angeles IT Provider and Los Angeles Managed IT Services to guide the state of your digital affairs is critical at this time. Imagine not only having to deal with the negative financial impact of a shuttered economy and recession; but also to suffer a cyber attack or breach or considerable downtime. These are serious considerations when trying to Choose The Right IT Provider; but they are even more serious when combined with a tough economy.
Changing IT Providers
Ditching your old IT Provider for good is like peeling off a bandage. It hurts more if you do it slowly. So just tear it off and go to a GREAT Los Angeles Managed IT Services Provider like TRA Consulting Inc. We are the IT Company you keep. We combine both price and quality into an unbeatable 1-2 knockout punch to all your IT woes.
Coronavirus and Telecommuting
How do we create safe and secure distributed networks? Hello and my name is Thomas Andersen, President of TRA Consulting Inc. and today I wanted to talk about Coronavirus – a very serious issue, a global health pandemic.
Coronavirus Malware
How hackers exploit times of extreme anxiety? Hello and my name is Thomas Andersen, and I am President of TRA Consulting, Inc.
IRAN AND CYBERSECURITY
This is not a political treatise… By Thomas Andersen President TRA Consulting, Inc. In the regional conflicts involving superpowers, a lot of companies large and small get caught in the mix. If you have been following the news at all, you know that the USA and Iran have been in an escalation of words and actions lately. I am here to remind you that from a cyber-security threat aspect, Iran is actually one of the most prolific state-sponsored cyber-security threats in the world. When regional conflicts flare up, it is common for us to see the number of cyber threats spike. Because cyber threats are harder to trace than real world threats, state-sponsored actors love to ratchet up the attacks. They cause a lot of damage to businesses and economies, and gain the attackers a big foothold in the target. In the case of the current conflict, the US can expect to see 2020 as a big year for continued attacks mainly coming from Iran, Russia, China, and North Korea. Have you done your due diligence in securing your network? all of your data backed up, on-premises and in the cloud? sufficient coverage? Do you have a competent IT company proactively monitoring your network? When you need them, does your IT company respond to emergencies quickly? If you answered no to any of the questions above, you might want to give us a call Visit our website here: https://traconsulting.com/ Call Us for a free analysis here: (562) 551 8TRA Check out our LinkedIn here: linkedin.com/company/tra-it
O365 SUPERIORITY OVER GSUITE
I’m a little partial, but that doesn’t change the fact… By Thomas Andersen President TRA Consulting, Inc. In the war of email providers, let’s get real. If you are running G-Suite, you are doing your company a disservice. It really just isn’t that good. Let’s go through some of the technical basics. Security: By default, O365 has SPF turned up, Native DKIM servers, better logging features, and more granular security controls. For an added fee, DLP protections with standard legal templates, Anti-Phishing and Anti-Malware protection, litigation archiving and litigation discovery. Pricepoint: on a per-user-basis, apples-to-apples, O365 is slightly cheaper. Communications and Chat: O365 has Teams, which is the fully-featured successor to Skype for Business. G-Suite has Google Hangouts (Who is in charge of the marketing here?), which fully integrates into the Outlook applications and mobile presence. Collaboration: Have you ever tried to migrate out of Google Drive? Good luck. Microsoft’s Sharepoint 365 is a cloud collaboration tool with a more linear backend with a more diverse application suite for more functionality in the cloud. For your IT department: Don’t get me started about the beauty of PowerShell and how beautifully O365 integrates into your domain via ADSync for Windows Server for true Federation and SSO. Your IT department will thank you for the amount of time you save them in spinning up and down users within your organization, and sync users and logins across all their devices. If you are running a serious business, and if you want to streamline the way your users work and communicate, decrease the cost of supporting the organization, and increase productivity; there is no better platform in town. Talk to us and see what Microsoft O365 can do for you. P.S. if you are really in love with G-Suite for business and dead set to stay in the Google ecosystem, we can support you too. We can help you overcome some of the challenges of the platform and still integrate some of the natively missing features and security in G-Suite. Visit our website here: https://traconsulting.com/ Call Us for a free analysis here: (562) 551 8TRA Check out our LinkedIn here: linkedin.com/company/tra-it
MINI COMPUTERS OR WORKSTATIONS?
Do you like to save money? By Thomas Andersen President TRA Consulting, Inc. Let’s talk bottom line. As a guy who is a technician at heart, I want you (my customer) to have THE BEST experience possible at work. I want you to work efficiently. I want to decrease downtime. I want to boost your productivity. But as a purchasing decision-maker at your company, having the latest and greatest endpoints may not be in the cards. The cost of hardware has been decreasing dramatically; especially over the past 10 years. We have all seen this phenomenon play out. There is a class of PC that has been gaining steam recently, which brings your potential price point even lower. Enter, the mini-PC. Word to the wise: this class of PC is not meant for critical functionaries. It is not for your marketing and accounting department. Your CEO will kill you if you put this on his or her desk. It is appropriate for Kiosk and front desk staff who perform non-resource-intensive work, mostly in the cloud. That is the best way I can define the use case for these machines. With a starting price of $100-$300, these machines are cheap, easy to replace, and space saving devices which can decrease the cost of pre-configuration and replacement; and nearly eliminate the shipping cost to satellite locations. The super-low price point enables you to stock up on extra inventory in case of outage. They are easy to image, and they usually come preloaded with Win 10. Interested? Reach out to us and let’s see what we can do about turning a cost-center into a margin-saving endeavor. Visit our website here: https://traconsulting.com/ Call Us for a free analysis here: (562) 551 8TRA Check out our LinkedIn here: linkedin.com/company/tra-it