BramTech Solutions: Blog
Tip of the Week: Four Technologies to Boost Your Business’ Success
It shouldn’t be any surprise to hear us say it, but technology is one of the most effective means of supporting your business and its processes. Let’s dive into this idea and share a few tips that you can use to directly drive your business forward. Our first tip, again, may seem a little obvious (especially coming from Pileus Technologies)... Use Technology! …however, it is important that we acknowledge the simple fact that you have to put modern technology in place in order to see its benefits. [...]
Using Virtual Desktops in Windows 11
More often than not, productivity is about getting right to work, with no distractions. One of the ways you can be more productive in the workplace is through the use of multiple desktops, something which can help you navigate multiple different tasks as you go about your day. Virtual desktops are something that even the average employee can use to improve productivity, and the features are available in Windows 11. This is not the same as virtual machines, which sometimes might get mislabeled as a virtual desktop [...]
Why Is VoIP So Valuable?
The traditional telephone system may have once been a prominent part of your business’ communication infrastructure, but chances are that since technology has improved, you are wasting capital if you are still utilizing an antiquated telephone system. Let’s look at why using older telephone systems can hurt your business. New Users are Problematic Chances are that your office was designed to handle a certain number of employees at any given time. As such, there are phone lines wired across your office for those employees. What happens when [...]
Were You Targeted by Ransomware? The FBI Wants to Hear About It
At the end of January, the Federal Bureau of Investigation went public with an announcement that they had taken down the servers and Dark Web sites utilized by the Hive ransomware gang. This is a major victory, in terms of fighting cybercrime, but a certain statistic from this operation shows a somewhat disconcerting trend. Let’s examine a statistic that FBI Director Christopher Wray shared during a press conference: In the Seven Months of the FBI’s Operation, an Estimated 20% of Hive’s Victims Reported Issues to Law Enforcement [...]
RMM Services Keep Your Business’ Computing Up and Running
It isn’t easy to run a small business, and a lot of this difficulty comes from the fact that, as an owner of a small business, you have some limitations that dictate how your business can be run. For many businesses, one of these is a budgetary one. If you are going to stabilize your costs, you need to know that the investments you make are going to work. One way a managed services provider accomplishes this is through remote monitoring and maintenance. Let’s say your company [...]
Tip of the Week: Setting Up a New Router
Back in the early days of wireless Internet connectivity, setting up your router was a challenge. Fortunately, this is no longer the case, and it’s a pretty simple process. However, that is not to say that there aren’t better ways of doing things as compared to others. Let’s go over a few things that you’ll want to address as you’re setting up your wireless router. Keep It Centralized, High Up, and Unobstructed It really matters where you put your router in your office, largely because of how [...]
Properly Conducted Managed IT Services Bring Immense Value
Even the most technology-literate of your average employees is not going to have the knowledge needed to manage and maintain your entire business infrastructure, and you shouldn’t expect them to, either. It takes a special kind of attention and training to manage complicated enterprise-level technology, but how can you make sure your business has access to these important resources? Perhaps the best solution to this challenge lies in managed IT services. If you support your business with the appropriate technology expertise, even a small business like yours [...]
We Need to Talk About How Modern AI Tools Can Influence Work
In recent months, publicly-accessible AI tools have ignited interest in using artificial intelligence amongst businesses, and for good reason. While these tools are very, very limited in what they can do—which we will discuss here for sure—they still show enormous potential. However, this potential introduces a few major questions to the conversation. Let’s examine some of them. First, Let’s Address the Plagiarism of It All These modern platforms, and indeed any AI-powered tool, rely on data in order to work. In the case of the platforms that [...]
