Good afternoon everybody! Kevin Baylor, CTO, Alliance IT. Hope you’re having a great day.

Wanted to circle back, get back to the basics just briefly. I wanted to talk about Alliance IT. Again, who we are, what we do and why we’re here.

So back in the day, some of you may or may not remember or knew us before, we did our rebranding this year. We were Suncoast Business Technologies and we had a lot to do.

Formed in 2007 for myself, Chuck Walker and another business partner. We brought all of our businesses together and formed Suncoast and through a couple of M and As and acquisition last year and so forth, we decided it was time to really bring the new corporate brand forward and that’s Alliance IT.

Why are we here? Well, we’re here to keep you secure, keep you safe and let you focus on your business. That’s what you want in the business, right? You want to focus on your business. You didn’t want to rely on yourself to figure out every single problem in the world, whether it was HR or AP or technology. Let us focus on the technology piece for you. From the IT to the cabling to the VoIP, we’re here for you.

Ring Authority, our VoIP brand, part of us, same great people, same great service, just a little different brand. The idea is that we do what we do well. We don’t do websites. We don’t do SEO. We don’t do marketing. We don’t even do our own video recording.

We want you to trust us. We want to become your trusted IT partner, that outsourced IT company. We look for that long-term relationship. We’ve got clients that have been with us for 20 years. Someday we can tell you the story of how you get a 12-year-old business that has got 20-year-old clients. It’s a good story, good beer conversation as well.

I’ve said that we want to keep you secure. It’s not all that we want to do. We’re here for your hardware sales, your software sales, your helpdesk support. Your employees need help. They got to have somewhere to go. You don’t want them knocking on your door, trying to figure out how to fix a printer or how to fix Microsoft Office or why email isn’t being sent.

You run your business. Let us run your IT. Security is a big thing. I’ve talked about security so many times this year. Some may be tired of hearing it. But it’s out there. The enemies are at the gate. There are articles every week. This one talks about how MSPs, companies like us, are focused on our own security as well because your security relies on our security. We can’t compromise our security because it could compromise yours and you need to think about that as well for your clients or your vendors.

Your security could compromise theirs and theirs could compromise yours. Unfortunately, it’s a vicious cycle. If you have any questions, you have any concerns, our doors are open, our phones are on, email is flowing. Reach out to us. Let’s get together and let’s talk about how to keep you secure, you safe and mitigate your risk.

Kevin Baylor, Alliance IT.