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  • Can outsourcing your IT save you time and money? 4 proven benefits to outsourcing your IT

    Can outsourcing your IT save you time and money? 4 proven benefits to outsourcing your IT

    Where and how to spend your technology budget is often a constrained topic for our clients and prospects, often the need to improve things is apparent by the time they’re having a discussion with us but there’s still a hesitancy that’s difficult to overcome.

    Investing in your business requires a lot of thought and consideration even when it’s a topic you know well, but for many the topic of IT is a somewhat intimidating subject even during the best of times. When IT is causing you woes it can feel like an insurmountable task to evaluate a solution to solve it given how many different paths there are to take.

    Is it hardware being finicky or failing, a recent cyber scare, ongoing data loss causing you consternation and keeping you up at night? Even minor technology conflicts such as keeping up with ongoing maintenance or replacing a device for an employee can demand hours of research and head banging and still not land you in a place where you feel totally confident in your choices.

    If you have an IT person in your company or one you work with it can still be difficult to keep up with it all in modern workplaces. Devices fail, the maintenance is never ending, and choices will have to be made. There is no one and done solution to it but outsourcing your IT to a company who does this as their bread and butter can not only save you a lot of time and hassle – it can even save you money.

    It may seem counterintuitive as there will be a cost to outsourcing your IT, but there is no avoiding making an investment when it comes to technology in 2024. Below are 5 proven benefits to outsourcing your IT.

    1. No hiring, training, or managing additional staff: Anyone who’s been involved in onboarding a new employee knows what a time sink it is, from the initial search to interviews to training. With a provider like Valley Techlogic we handle hiring and training technical staff members and have a rigid standard for those we work with so only the best people represent the face of our business to our clients.
    2. Teamwork and combined experience: IT like many other career paths covers a whole spectrum of knowledge that would be impossible for one person to master in totality. We have a team of qualified people who specialize in a wide variety of topics and decades of combined experience. For many small businesses hiring for all of these roles would be extremely cost prohibitive but under one service plan with us you have access to our full team.
    3. Many solutions under one umbrella: We also invest heavily in solutions that we provide to our clients, again for one flat monthly fee. Many of these solutions are not available other than through a provider like us and are beyond your typical anti-virus solutions that only scratch the surface. Ongoing, real-time monitoring and threat detection. Backup solutions that include immutable access (so they cannot be tampered with) and more real-time your needs exactly: We tailor our plans to fit your needs exactly and can scale up or down with you. We base our solutions on how many users we’re supporting, so as you grow our plan will grow with you providing exactly the right amount of coverage.
    4. Ongoing risk prevention: Our plans include all of your IT maintenance, so if something is amiss such as a device failing, we can offer our recommendation for replacing it before it becomes an issue – this is especially noteworthy when it comes to critical devices such as an onsite server.

    In total if you looked at each facet of a solution like ours compared to trying to invest time or money to replicate it bit by bit on your own, the costs would be exorbitant. This is why we see so many businesses who have inadequate solutions for IT and who try to cut corners, this is not a category where you should try to go it alone.

    Reach out today to learn more about what Valley Techlogic can do for your specific business by clicking here or the image below.

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    This article was powered by Valley Techlogic, an IT service provider in Atwater, CA. You can find more information at https://www.valleytechlogic.com/ or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/valleytechlogic/ . Follow us on Twitter at https://x.com/valleytechlogic.

  • Looking for a new IT provider? Here’s a checklist to start with

    Looking for a new IT provider? Here’s a checklist to start with

    As an IT provider ourselves we have some thoughts – okay a lot of thoughts – on what makes a good one.

    It’s an unfortunate fact that many of our clients came to us after being failed, sometimes catastrophically, by their previous provider. While we service a large portion of the Central California area, we know many readers fall outside this region and we thought it would be helpful to provide a printable and online capable checklist for the top 9 things to look for in an IT provider.

    The items found on this checklist are simple enough you could even have it handy while you interview new provider options. If the answers to any of these questions are a “no” or even hesitancy, we suggest you continue looking. Items like security, disaster recovery and responsiveness to requests are hard stops when it comes to choosing a provider that will best support your business.

    If your old IT service provider left you in the lurch during a disaster, why would you risk choosing a new provider that can’t guarantee that the same thing won’t happen again?

    You also want to make sure they believe in proactive maintenance. When choosing a new provider and paying for their services the last thing you want to have happen is that you’re still the person responsible for maintaining your own IT. Paying their bill every month while still slogging through updates on workstations yourself would just be salt in the wound. We think this should be an included part of any full coverage service plan.

    Speaking of full coverage plans, at Valley Techlogic we believe in unified billing. This means when you choose us all of your IT services are contained under our one billing umbrella. We manage their IT subscriptions, their VoIP plans – everything is designed to be as hassle free as possible. While not all providers operate the same as we do in this regard, we (and our clients) think of it as a positive feature.

    Migrating from your previous provider can also be an intimidating time for any business owner, this person or business had access to all of your sensitive systems and if things ended on a sour note, you may be feeling unsure whether your data and systems are safe.

    We wrote a comprehensive guide on what to do when your IT guy (or IT provider) suddenly quits, you can find it here. The topics are applicable whether they quit or were fired by you. It’s our suggestion you don’t try to manage this on your own, locking down access and recovering credentials is really best left to the professionals.

    If your business is located in Central California (Sacramento, Stockton, Modesto, Fresno, Merced and everywhere in between) and you’re looking for a new IT service provider, Valley Techlogic meets all of the criteria found in the above checklist and more. Reach out today to learn more.

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    This article was powered by Valley TechLogic, an IT service provider in Atwater, CA. You can find more information at https://www.valleytechlogic.com/ or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/valleytechlogic/ . Follow us on Twitter at https://x.com/valleytechlogic.