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Many of us are still working from home, and now that school has started, there are probably a lot of people in your household trying to connect to the internet. Our team has pulled together some tips to help us stay productive. We hope these will be helpful to you or to someone on your team.
Read MorePlease join us in officially welcoming Charles Latham as lead systems engineer and John Rediker as systems engineer. Additionally, Houston Douglas, who interned with Affinity, has joined us full time as Design Desk Specialist.
Read MoreIn case you’re not quite sure what the term “phishing” means in the technology world, now is a good time to learn. Here’s some sobering information:
Read MoreMost people have probably heard of Microsoft Teams. It is Included with most popular Office 365 Plans, but is your organization using all the features that can help with productivity as your workforce may be scattered between home and office? Getting the value out of your organization’s technology, especially if it optimizes productivity, is more important now more than ever.
Read MoreMost of us would admit that we are in uncharted waters when it comes to what work looks like today. For some organizations, it is business as usual, with most of the workforce back in the office. For others, it will be months before the team is back in the office and operating in a “normal” workflow. And there’s a whole lot in between. No matter where your company falls in the continuum, now is a good time to stop and take stock of how this global pandemic has affected your company’s technology and security.
Read MoreJoin a 15-min webinar to discuss 3 techniques that will help protect your company from phishing attacks. We will be answering common questions about phishing attacks such as:
What is a phishing attack?
What does a phishing attack look like?
How can a phishing attack affect my company?
How can I protect my company from phishing attacks
Is your organization gearing up to bring your remote workforce back into the office? Before moving forward, you may want to take a step back and make sure you have policies and procedures in place to make the transition as smooth as possible. Have you asked some of these important questions?
Read MoreYou can make your home Wi-Fi more reliable and perform better. Watch our recorded 15-min webinar to learn how to improve your home Wi-Fi network during the work-from-home era.
Read MoreIt has been a busy couple of months, to say the least, but we want to make sure that we stop to announce the promotion of our 13-year Affinity veteran Jason Hardy. In February, Jason assumed the position of Vice President of Operations, and he has been integral to maintaining a culture of excellence amidst the most disruptive time Affinity has experienced in our 18-year history.
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Read MoreAffinity Technology Partners appears in the Your Williamson March 2020 issue.
Read MoreWatch a 15-min webinar to learn how to leverage Microsoft Teams during COVID-19 and the work-from-home era.
Read MoreBad news: Mercy Ministries had to cancel their major fundraiser Run For Mercy. Good news: I guarantee our fellow Affinity team member Kevin Foster won his race! So glad that we were still able to participate.
Read MoreBusiness owners and leadership, you've shifted your workforce to work from home in record speed, but now what? Can my team operate collaboratively and PRODUCTIVELY for weeks (or months!) this way? And what about Security?
Read MoreWith more schools closing and event cancellations by the day, it’s becoming clear that every organization needs to develop a plan to deal with the threat of infection both internally and in the ways they interface with the public.
Read MoreUse VPNs to provide remote access to company resources. VPN technology by Affinity could boost your security. Contact us online or give us a call.
Read MoreTelecommuting is increasingly common in today's business landscape. For some businesses, it's a worthwhile model for boosting productivity and adding flexibility to their workforce. Depending on your company's culture, this may be an attractive option.
It’s important to remember, though, that a productive telecommuting policy requires significant investment in and strategy around IT. Technology is, after all, the lynchpin that will keep your remote workers connected with others in your organization and with the assets—from business data to key software applications—that will keep them productive. And telecommuting necessarily involves relying on technology that is outside of your physical premises, leading to a greater potential for cyber security risk.
With the right approach to technology and the right safeguards in place, though, businesses can implement smart telecommuting and remote work options that can boost employee flexibility and productivity—and thus positively impact the bottom line.
Read MoreIt can seem like a daunting task to determine the right time to outsource your company’s IT. If you’re a startup, you might reason that it’s best to do what you can to manage your own technology until you reach a certain scale and can afford to hire a full-service outsourced provider. Or you may be the leader of a growing company weighing the options of an in-house IT professional against outsourcing. Or you may even have one or two IT professionals, wondering if a managed service provider could address some needs that your current staff isn’t getting to.
So, what’s the right size to be considering outsourcing your IT to a managed service provider?
Read MoreOne of cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs’s 5 Immutable Truths About Data Breaches reads: “If you connect it to the Internet, someone will try to hack it.” And never has this been more important to keep in mind than now, when we are connecting everything from appliances to light bulbs to the internet. This trend, known as the “Internet of Things” or “IoT,” utilizes technology to bring helpful new features to everyday items in our homes and businesses. But an unwelcome consequence of that is an increased risk of cyberattacks.
Read MoreWhen planning for their organization’s technology, nonprofit leaders face a specific set of challenges. The latest technologies can help nonprofits expand their reach, increase their efficiency, accomplish more within a fixed budget, and fulfill their mission more effectively. But the pricing structures—not to mention the prices themselves—of technology tools don’t always map easily onto their budgetary needs.
It is precisely these challenges that the market for cloud computing solutions has begun to resolve for nonprofits. There are a number of inherent benefits to cloud computing that may be especially attractive for nonprofits. In the past, though, the cost of moving key company assets to the cloud was prohibitively high for many small and mid-sized organizations. Given the increased competition in the cloud market and the continued development of cloud technologies, though, that is no longer the case.
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