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Many organizations, small to large, have been faced with similar challenges relating to technology. Whether you are a business or IT executive, you have been tasked with increasing scalability and mobility while maintaining security and compliance, all for a cost that doesn’t break your budget. If you are like most organizations, the growing trend of BYOD has not made this easy. Luckily, there...

Most people believe that their data is only at risk to hackers or the rarity of a natural disaster. The reality is that 78% of all lost data is due to downtime caused by an unexpected hardware or system malfunction, and 11% is a result of human error. Lost data is regarded as one of the worst effects of downtime; which is the time in which all machinery and systems are out of action or...

Every other week people are out buying lottery tickets even though their odds of winning are 1:175,000,000. Most people understand that they do not stand a chance of winning, yet they still purchase them week after week. This is because people believe they can beat the odds. In this case, the worst that can happen is losing a few dollars. Don't Be Part of the Statistics! On a larger scale,...

Many small and medium businesses are stuck in the past when it comes to managing and supporting their IT environment with the break-fix mentality. This reactive method of “maintain” IT, cost these businesses’ more than they imagine by reducing the productivity of their employees when having to factor in the time to call, schedule, and dispatch a technician. By the time the issue is resolved; the...

Ask any SMB Executive if they have business insurance and the vast majority will answer yes. One simply cannot do business or operate without it. One would think that those in charge of SMBs are risk adverse and would do anything to protect their business but that’s not the case according to a Symantec study. The study found that 57% of SMBs don’t have a disaster recovery plan. Additionally, the...

CRA reports that its managed IT solution Manage360°, initially launched this past summer, is delivering cost savings over 50% to its NYC small and medium business clients. In a recent total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis, CRA compared the costs of its Manage360° clients running their own IT versus CRA’s managed IT solution Manage360°. The analysis also exposed the immediate and long-term cost...

CRA's Chief of Sales and Marketing, Tom Richer, recently quoted in several CRN articles regarding the IT security landscape and issues. http://www.crn.com/news/security/300074203/intel-poaches-cisco-security-vet-to-lead-intel-mcafee-teams.htm http://www.crn.com/news/security/300074153/healthcare-gov-review-finds-significant-security-weaknesses.htm

A recent Forbes article stated that most companies’ IT departments spend their time being reactive, simply just trying to maintain their technology. As stated in the article by Dan H. Miller, CIO of Massage Envy Spa, “If too much time is spent “keeping the lights on,” the IT department is seen as a cost center, a non-innovator or even a roadblock due to its inability to deliver quickly.” Miller...

CRA has launched Manage360°, their next generation of Managed Services, which is designed to comprehensively provide fully managed IT solutions to SMBs in non-profit, legal, health, financial and other key industries. Many SMBs use third party providers to manage their IT support. Why? Outsourcing IT allows SMBs to focus on their core business, sales, and customer service resulting in increased...

CRA has been providing innovative IT solutions to small and medium enterprises and government agencies for over 20 years. Their innovations in IT support have kept pace with the ever-changing demands of the industry and ensure 100% client satisfaction throughout the US. After having successfully delivered on-time and cutting-edge solutions to several institutions, they have established a...

Managed Print Solutions (MPS) are a viable way to enabled robust and stable functioning of multiple printers at disparate locations with very low cost impact. As a result, demand for MPS is growing considerably. MPS and Managed Services Should Cater to Small Enterprises When it comes to small businesses, the number one concern is how to upgrade to a solid IT network that streamlines all...

You’ve heard about it. But what exactly is Heartbleed and what does it do? Heartbleed is a security bug in the open-source OpenSSL cryptography library, widely used to implement the Internet's Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. This vulnerability is due to a “missing bounds” check in the handling of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) heartbeat extension. As a result of this vulnerability,...