How to Save Money on Your Business IT

When all the technology in your company is humming along smoothly, it can be easy to think you can save money on business IT. Often business owners think “what am I even paying for with my IT?” when everything works properly. However, this is probably the worst time to think about cutting your IT budget, […]

Understanding the Cloud

Cloud

These days most of our tasks are taking place in the cloud, and often, we really aren’t even sure what that means. Broken down to it’s most basic form, essentially the cloud is the internet. Network diagrams always showed the internet as a cloud, and thus the name “cloud” started getting used.  As we were […]

Introducing Mimecast the Latest in Email Security

Protek continually insures that our clients have the latest security solutions to ward off the next generation of cyber-attacks; this includes your email. Protek has moved away from our previous email solution, replacing it with the latest Mimecast software.     This software will offer more protection and versatility to both our clients and our technicians. […]

Retro 1800s Business Practices Can Cost Your Company Money!

Trivia time! Do you know what device was invented in 1892 that changed the face of offices around the world? If you guessed the fax machine then you’re close, but you need to think further ahead by almost 50 years (the first fax machine was patented in 1843 by Alexander Bain). More influential than even […]