Reactive vs Proactive Out with the old The traditional approach to IT management has been to react to problems as they come up, typically by outsourcing support where in-house solutions prove insufficient. It’s tempting to take this reactive approach because it has the appearance of saving money. If it ‘ain’t broke don’t fix it, right?…
Since the earliest days of commercial computing, businesses have faced a unique set of technical challenges. Apart from being expensive to acquire and maintain, IT infrastructure requires expertise which is specialised, difficult, and expensive to find, recruit, hire, and retain. Since the days of time-sharing of mainframe computing in the 1960s, organisations have progressively found…
The top five reasons to consider employing a Managed Service Provider (MSP) Traditionally an organisation’s IT services were either exclusively handled by their in-house IT professionals, or outsourced on a piecemeal basis when needed. Over the last decade, however, the trend has been to outsource IT services through a subscription model. This is known as…
The “as a service” trend is changing the way products and service are consumed. Almost anything can be set up “as a service” giving organisations the ability to consume service without having to pay outright. The most appealing aspect of “as a service” is that companies can move significant capital expenditure into operational expenditure and…
Media Release, Melbourne, Australia – 24 September 2019 – Data protection is one of the biggest pain points in SMBs, and not only do they spend enormous amounts of time and money to secure their systems, sometimes without succeeding their goal. Now, Linktech Australia, a leading IT Support and Consultancy firm, introduces the upgraded Cloud…
What comes to mind when you hear the term “managed service provider”? Probably not much – which is understandable as the term doesn’t offer much insight into what we do, or why it should mean anything to you. As with most IT-related terms, the ambiguity and vagueness of the term might further confuse laypeople. Therefore,…