Hey everybody. Hope you’re having a great day and a great week and enjoying fourth quarter and fall that’s coming upon us. So had a few folks ask, “Why Alliance? What makes Alliance IT different?” Well, I guess you could kind of get into the Ford-Chevy conversation or a BMW-Mercedes conversation. But [...]
Whether you’re a small business and working with an outside IT firm or you’re a large enterprise and you have your own in-house IT staff, security operations centers are going to become more prevalent and more key to day to day business security.
If you’re a non-profit, hopefully you’ve already signed up and been approved through TechSoup and you’re getting a lot of discounted and free things through that.
Kevin Baylor with Alliance IT here. Just going to take a couple of minutes and spot off some trends I think we’re going to see in technology coming up here in 2020.
What do you need to do with your organization from a technology perspective? What are your concerns? What are your initiatives? Where do you need to be spending your money?
Email encryption has different needs for all types of businesses, whether you’re trying to meet HIPAA compliance, potentially PCI compliance. Maybe your own internal policies are going to come into play with the email encryption.
You’ve probably heard about 5G, the next greatest high-speed wireless out there, 10 times faster than 4G. It’s not a myth. It’s not a legend. It is coming right there, you know. You’ve got gigabit Wi-Fi, getting up to 1.3-gigabyte speeds over the Wi-Fi.
This year has become the year of upgrades and security. You know, with Windows 7 and Server 2008 expiring in January of 2020 and some of the new technologies on the front, there’s a lot of upgrades going on this year.
We’re seeing clients that are looking to get infrastructure out of their office faster. You know, this year as I mentioned before, there’s a lot of upgrades going on due to old hardware, old software. So now is really the time if you’re going to make a move to the cloud or if you’ve just kind of dipped your toes in the cloud.
The FCC is cracking down on phone spoofing and they’re trying to work on it. But again, it’s a public service announcement to let you know that it is going on and be aware that it’s happening.
