Entries by Garin Livingstone

Recommended Practices: How to update technology

May 7, 2015 in , /by

This is a multi-part series on recommended IT practices for organizations and their end-users.  Additional parts will be included in upcoming newsletters. The psychological impact of an IT upgrade is significant:  Most employees are excited to receive new equipment (larger monitor, faster PC, better tablet), but often balk at a significant change – like introducing […]

Bryley’s Client-Service Portal

April 30, 2015 in /by

Bryley has made significant investments in our business systems and infrastructure to enable real-time communications regarding the timeliness and quality of services we deliver. A result is that client-service requests (with resulting service tickets) may now be added, viewed, or updated through our Client-Service Portal. This real-time environment is available 24 x 7 at www.Bryley.com […]

Penton Technology Names Bryley Systems Inc. to the MSPmentor 501 Global Edition for the Second Consecutive Year

April 28, 2015 in /by

8th Annual Report Identifies World’s Top 501 Managed IT Service Providers March 26, 2015: Bryley Systems™ has appeared on Penton Technology’s eighth-annual MSPmentor 501 Global Edition, a distinguished list and report identifying the world’s top 501 Managed IT Service Providers (MSPs). The complete 501 list is available at MSPmentor. “We are thrilled and honored to […]

Bryley Basics: Current PC configuration for office use

April 23, 2015 in , /by

Recommended configuration We recommend brand-name PCs (HP is our preference, but Dell is also a US-based company with good products) with Intel processors and these minimum features: 8Gb (or more) of RAM A 250Gb (or larger) fixed-disk drive DisplayPort video with two monitors We typically deploy Windows 8.1 (or downgrade to Windows 7 upon request), […]

Recommended Practices: Licensing Microsoft professional software

April 16, 2015 in /by

This is a multi-part series on recommended IT practices for organizations and their end-users.  Additional parts will be included in upcoming newsletters. Microsoft software licenses can be categorized by their function: User-oriented applications – Microsoft Office, Visio, Project, etc. Operating systems – Windows, Windows Server, Windows Mobile, etc. Server-based applications – Exchange Server, SQL Server, […]

Microsoft is discontinuing Internet Explorer

April 9, 2015 in /by

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) was first included with Microsoft Windows 95; it is a much-maligned Internet browser, primarily due to its intermittent security issues and declining user base. IE’s dominance came in the early 2000s, when it captured 95% of the market, but, with growing competition from Mozilla’s Firefox and Google’s Chrome, declined to somewhere […]

Join us at the Corridor-9 Business Expo

April 2, 2015 in /by

The Corridor 9 (Chamber of Commerce) Business Expo will be held on Thursday, April 2nd, at the Doubletree Hotel on 5400 Computer Drive in Westboro from 4pm until early evening.  Admission is free.  Register at www.CorridorNine.org. Bryley Systems will be exhibiting in Booth 62.  

Second, consecutive year on MSPmentor® 501: 2015 Global Edition – Worldwide  

April 1, 2015 in , /by

March 26, 2015:  Bryley Systems Inc. ranks 462 on Nine Lives Media’s eighth-annual MSPmentor 501: 2015 Global Edition – Worldwide Company Rankings, a distinguished list and report identifying the world’s top 501 Managed IT Service Providers.  (Managed IT Service Providers, or MSPs, provide their clients with outsourced IT management and functions, typically at a predetermined […]