Although somehow August is at its end, we here at Burgess Technology Services are not ready to let go of summer just yet. We’ve polled our staff and friends, encouraging them to tell us about some of their favorite summer recreation technology, and we’re pleased to share a few with you here. Not surprisingly, Continue Reading
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Understanding Industry-specific Technology Needs
We at BTS are proud to be expert in supporting the unique needs of several specific industries, including Municipalities, Financial Institutions (especially Credit Unions), Medical and Manufacturing. In addition to the daily requirements of any business network, these industries have stringent requirements with regard to data security, federal regulation and 24/7 productivity. Burgess Technology Services Continue Reading
What Does Network Monitoring Mean for My Business?
In the March blog, we talked about Managed Services and why they are a cost-effective and secure choice for ensuring the safety and smooth-running of your business network. This month, we want to take a deeper dive into one area of managed service, Network Monitoring. To help us understand monitoring from a practical perspective, as Continue Reading
Current Scams, Hacking and Phishing Attacks
In the IT Support sphere, we always need to be aware of current and evolving threats to your business network, so it’s always a good time to be taking a look at the most recent iterations of spam, scams, phishing and hacking attempts. Here’s what we’re seeing a lot of lately: Trusted Vendor Pop-ups You’re Continue Reading
Why Managed Service?
Organizations without internal IT staff, or who are looking to free up designated personnel to other responsibilities, can engage managed services to monitor their IT infrastructure within a set budget. Outsourcing IT tasks to a managed service provider (MSP) gives your company the chance to focus on running your business, instead of troubleshooting tech Continue Reading
Show Your Staff Some Love
This Love Month, we want to share a few ideas for showing your staff some technology and workspace love in 2022. All great relationships have a foundation of great communication. It’s no secret, we’re a fan of giving your staff the gift of Microsoft Teams. Collaboration tools such as online meetings, screen sharing, Continue Reading
Technology End-of-Life Guide, 2022
Software, Firmware, Hardware. Technology end-of-life is an important aspect of your network and should be managed closely. If software or hardware is in its final stages of existence, or has already expired, it needs to be replaced. Once it reaches end-of-life, the manufacturers of the software/hardware will no longer offer any type of support, Continue Reading
Microsoft Teams
When the pandemic forced the BTS team to quickly transition to working from home, we knew that we needed a communication process that would allow us to keep our in-office efficiencies and productivity. We had been using Microsoft Teams for a while and found that in a work-from-home environment, it allowed us to make that Continue Reading
Technology End-of-Life Guide 2020-2021
Software, Firmware, Hardware End-of-Life Technology end-of-life is an important aspect of your network and should be managed closely. If software or hardware is in its final stages of existence, or has already expired, it needs to be replaced. Once it reaches end-of-life, the manufacturers of the software/hardware will no longer offer any type of support, Continue Reading