“Many business owners are ultra-focused on the bottom line and the cost of IT, which can be problematic in that they’re not willing to make the necessary investments. Those investments usually pay for themselves tenfold in gained productivity and efficiency in serving customers.” Nicholas Frank started his career in IT more than a decade ago, … Read more
How do you ensure things get done around your business? How much more do you think you could achieve when maximizing your work time? What is small business productivity? Productivity for a small business owner means optimizing business operations and getting the most impactful results from your efforts. It’s not uncommon for you and your … Read more
Not taking full advantage of all the possible IT capabilities can be the difference between your company becoming successful and staying where it is right now. Here at Protek-IT, we would love to help you embrace the wonders of tech and become your official service partner. Based in Chicago, Illinois, our team has provided world-level IT services … Read more
You have a small business that offers a product or service with an established client base. You can’t compete with the big names, but you offer great services and delight your clients. Why is it so important for you to keep building your small business trust base and show that you are dependable? More importantly, … Read more
Emails in your inbox now (hopefully) rarely begin with “I am the next heir to the throne in Nigeria…” That doesn’t mean email scamming has died down — as a matter of fact, even the emails from Nigerian heirs looking to send money to long-lost relatives still rake in about $700,000 a year. So, considering … Read more
According to Markets and Markets, the managed services market is “expected to grow from $223.0 billion in 2020 to $329.1 billion by 2025” with the IT infrastructure industry—along with managed data centers—holding the largest market share. Trying to find a small business IT service provider that you’re willing to entrust your business to can begin to … Read more
A password manager is an answer to the problem of having 60 online accounts that all want different, complex passwords. You might remember the times when you only had a few passwords, and coming up with a password was an exciting thing. That was around the time resetting your password meant answering questions about your … Read more
What is the Dark Web? You are currently browsing the opposite of the Dark Web – the Surface Web. That means that our site is indexed and searchable by Search Engines. However, the Deep Web is hidden, so there is no way you can get to it without actually attempting to. The Deep Web is … Read more
You may have already heard about IP-addresses and maybe even the different versions of IP-addresses. We have currently been using IPv4 (the acronym stands for Internet Protocol version 4), but since all the addresses are running out quickly, we will be switching over to IPv6 in the future. Let’s look a little deeper into what … Read more
RAID is an abbreviation from Redundant Array of Independent Disks. Having independent disks is the main idea behind RAID since it improves the fault tolerance and the chances that if something goes wrong, you will not lose your important data. Fun fact: it was called Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks at first, but since the … Read more
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