By April Cole Worley “I have always been into technology,” says TekTegrity Senior MST Norman Bard. And he has. In fact, to talk to Norm about his life with technology is to take a crash course in the advent of technology as we have come to know it today. It was 1981 when Norm first… Read more »
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By Russ Levanway, CEO Think about how integral the internet is to your life. If you have children in school, you know that more and more, teachers are assigning online coursework and homework. Furthermore, you most likely receive their report card via email or the internet. If you’re job hunting, where do you look? Most… Read more »
By Russ Levanway, CEO I recently read a book that addresses the question of how to grow a business while retaining quality and efficiency called Scaling Up Excellence: Getting to More Without Settling for Less by Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao. One key question in the book is “do you run your business with… Read more »
As a disclaimer we are a Nimble Storage partner and hence most of our real world experience is with Nimble and not Nutanix. Additionally our company has been hesitant to fully buy into much of the buzz around hyper-convergence and this article may reflect some of that hesitation. However at our core we are technology… Read more »
By Russ Levanway, CEO No degree? No problem. You’ve most likely heard stories about famous people in technology who didn’t excel in a classroom setting: Bill Gates attended Harvard for two years before dropping out to found Microsoft and Steve Jobs left Reed College after just six months. Traditional school just wasn’t where they did… Read more »
By Russ Levanway, CEO A virus as menacing as it sounds A couple years ago a new virus emerged called “CryptoLocker”. This nefarious virus is classified as ‘ransomware’; It infects computers by encrypting the files, offloading the encryption key, and holding the files ransom for a fee made payable to CryptoLocker’s authors. Many people without… Read more »
By Russ Levanway, CEO Until last year, TekTegrity’s mission was “To provide premium information technology services through relationships of the highest quality and integrity with our clients.” How many of our staff knew this mission by heart? Maybe half. And how well did it resonate with them? Probably not too well. Like individuals, companies can… Read more »
Presented to MGMA at Arroyo Grande Community Hospital, Spring 2015 Cybersecurity can be a heavy burden on any practice. Achieving regulatory compliance can be costly, functional results of compliance can be cumbersome, and fears about breaches can negatively impact team culture and sound decision making. That sums up the experience of many practices, but other… Read more »
by Russ Levanway, CEO In these days of fast-paced technological progress, I often hear people say that technology is disconnecting people from the world around them. Of course, there’s plenty of evidence to back that opinion up, including my personal favorite, the story of a woman who walked directly off a pier while scrolling her Facebook… Read more »
By Russ Levanway, CEO Is it healthier for the human body to a) take a walk, b) smoke a cigarette or c) eat a Krispy Kreme donut? Tough question, right? Thanks to academic studies – and plain common sense – we know that eating well, breaking a sweat, and avoiding deteriorative behaviors like smoking… Read more »