The Great Equalizer

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 »

Is Your Business Buddhist or Catholic?

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 »

Tomorrow’s Techie

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 »

Resist the Click: Your first defense against cyber sabotage

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 »

Why the ‘WHY’ Matters

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 »

Cybersecurity Mitigation Webinar

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 »

How Technology Connected Me to the World

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 »

Ounces vs. Pounds

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 »

TekTegrity Named to Managed Service Provider 500 List by CRN

Company Recognized for Exemplary Approach to Delivery of Managed IT Services San Luis Obispo, CA, March 10 2015 – TekTegrity today announced it has earned recognition on The Channel Company’s 2015 CRN Managed Service Provider (MSP) 500 list as one of the MSP Pioneer 250. This annual list distinguishes the top technology providers and consultants… Read more »

Client Spotlight: PRP Companies

The Cornerstone principles of PRP Companies include quality, sustainability, as shown through their Green Award, and trustworthiness, as indicated by their HIPPA compliance. They pride themselves on being active and generous in our community, having donated a great deal of printing services to non-profit organizations in San Luis Obispo, and Santa Barbara Counties. PRP Companies has… Read more »