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Take I.T. Off Your Plate with an MSP Partnership
You walk into the office Monday morning ready for a productive work week, and a couple of hours in, you’re dealing with a server connection problem. Once that’s solved, it’s just another few hours before another IT problem redirects your time. Putting out IT fires all week can be a big drain on a company’s…
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Grow Your Business by Making an MSP Your Technology Partner
Today, business and technology are pretty much synonymous. Technology processes are so infused in the operations of a company in Silicon Valley, or anywhere else in the country, that if IT is inefficient, so is the business. There’s a big difference between companies that just use technology at the basic level and those that are…
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How to Effectively Handle Tech Challenges Introduced by the COVID-19 Pandemic
Just when you think your technology infrastructure is fine, a global pandemic comes along and throws everyone for a loop. That’s how many San Jose/Silicon Valley area businesses felt when they were faced with a lockdown and the resulting need to change their way of doing things. Going from onsite to remote IT support and connecting with…
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Tips for Addressing Shadow IT Issues During the COVID-19 Crisis
The Coronavirus pandemic meant “all hands on deck” for companies in the San Jose and Silicon Valley area when it came to their technology infrastructure. Businesses had to quickly adjust operations to make it possible for employees to work from home, and if they didn’t already have them, put new cloud solutions in place. For…
Read MoreHow Can I Reduce My Cloud Infrastructure Costs?
It seems like only yesterday when people were asking, “What is the cloud?” With the speed that technology evolves, the cloud has gone from innovation to everyday requirement in multiple offices in the San Jose/Silicon Valley area and around the world. Between 2010 and 2019, the cloud computing market has increased nearly 200% and cloud adoption by…
Read More5 Best Practices for Work-From-Home Employees
The stay-at-home restrictions of the coronavirus pandemic have dramatically changed the way that many businesses operate. Silicon Valley area businesses were some of the first in the country to send employees home to work remotely, many going through a “trial by fire” when it came to the way that impacted their operations. While some U.S.…
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Is It Time for Your Company to Migrate to Virtual Desktops?
Many businesses in the San Jose and Silicon Valley area were among the first to completely embrace cloud computing. Over the past decade, companies around the world have replaced static software for the connectivity of the cloud. In 2014, approximately 49% of companies were using at least one cloud technology, and just 5 years later, in 2019,…
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5 Important Ways that Responsive Remote Support Can Keep Telecommuting Staff Productive
We’re already several weeks into a changed reality due to the coronavirus pandemic. Many Silicon Valley businesses have transitioned to an all remote workforce sending employees home to work. Some of them, for the very first time. More than a few companies had to make this transition quickly before having time to get a game…
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10 Commonsense Reasons to NOT Move to the Cloud
While cloud-based applications may be the newest trend in business systems, just because someone else is doing it doesn’t mean you should automatically follow suit. Cloud computing does have many benefits, but there are also some major disadvantages. At GEEK911, our first priority is to our clients’ needs, so we help them make the best…
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10 Compelling Reasons to Move Your Computing to the Cloud
When cloud computing first came along, many people were left wondering, what is “The Cloud” and what exactly does that mean for my data? Cloud-based applications have exploded over the last decade, as more companies realized the benefits of cloud-based systems. Being “in the cloud” simply means that your application and data are being hosted…
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