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Help Shadow IT in Your Business Come in From the Cold It can be incredibly challenging to maintain adequate, defensible information governance while also encouraging information sharing to boost productivity. Nowhere is this more evident than in the growing realm of “shadow IT.” Shadow IT includes all the applications introduced into the enterprise but not […]

How IT Can Make Peace with Consumer Productivity Applications The headlines blare: “59 Best Productivity Apps!” “20 Great Productivity Apps for Android, iOS and the Web.” Then there’s the more subtle: “The Best Apps for People With Too Much to Do.” These articles are wildly popular. Time-strapped people hoping to ‘hack’ their work processes click,

Managed IT Services: IT that works for you Today, digital and future are practically synonymous. Running a small business and having quality IT services are not as fortunate. Typically, small businesses mean small IT departments, or rather small single IT Manager, who quite literally, manages it all. They must update, patch, and, you guessed it,

We received 22 nominations for Core Value Recognition in the 4th Quarter 2016. Thank you for your nominations and thank you for upholding Stratix Core values! Our winners were chosen based on an email received in late November. Robin Fields, Global Technology Executive II, Ricoh USA, sent her thanks to Stratix for the exceptional, responsive

How IT Can Shine a Light on Dark Data It’s time to bring the security issues of dark data into the light. Today’s IT managers are facing increasing pressure to manage a growing stockpile of “dark,” unstructured data. Comprised of human-generated files (think spreadsheets, presentations, PDFs, Word documents, etc.), dark data is often where an

How to expand your IT Department without exploding your budget. Would you like to expand your IT Department without exploding your budget? Make Stratix Systems your “extra pair of hands.” If your important projects keep “slipping through the cracks” and your IT department just keeps getting farther and farther behind, it’s time to talk to

How to put compliance issues on “auto-pilot.” Many business, like physician offices, have strict compliance regulations about the way data is stored, accessed and used. These regulations are evolving rapidly and are changing all the time. And compliance issues, whatever their regulatory or policy origin, are among the most risk-associated faced by organizations. Non-compliance can

Managed IT Services for the Mobile Workforce These days, having quality IT support for a small- or mid-sized business is much easier said than done. Typically, small- or mid-sized businesses mean small IT capabilities, and often, a single “jack of all trades” IT guy, who quite literally, does it all. Often, the IT guy must

How to turn IT into a powerful tool. If you’re like a lot of small- and mid-sized business, IT is probably holding your company back. The fact is that the demands of information, security and compliance are so great—and ever changing—that it’s next to impossible to effectively manage IT internally and keep your team’s focus