Lathrop IT Consulting offers a wide range of service to meet your every need.
NETWORKING
Your network is your lifeline. You can’t run a business when you can’t share information among your employees. No Internet access? Can’t get email? Can’t share files or access that financial data? I can fix that. I understand the importance of keeping your computers communicating properly. Whether you have 2 computers or 200, regardless of where they are in the world, I can provide the services necessary to ensure you have a fully functional network – an operational business.
New or Existing
If you have a new business and are looking to setup your network, or your current network simply isn’t working for you, I’ll work with you to develop a phased approach to getting a network that suits your needs.
- Everything starts with a full understanding of your business and an evaluation of your current (if existing) infrastructure.
- Following that, I’ll develop some recommendations, a plan and pricing.
- After your approval, and any necessary adjustments, we’ll start implementing the final solution.
WAN, LAN, Secure Remote Connections
I offer services for your Wide Area Network (WAN), Local Area Network (LAN) and your remote/mobile employees. Whether you have one office, multiple offices around the city/state/country/globe, or have a mobile staff that needs to connect from anywhere in the world, I can provide you with the technology and services necessary to ensure a secure, reliable connection among your entire company.
PC HARDWARE & SOFTWARE SUPPORT
I can support all computers running any Microsoft operating system, and Apple computers. I can support most software you run. If you run specialized software, I can work the vendor to ensure the highest quality support is provided to you.
MALWARE REMOVAL
Malware is an insidious beast and once it’s on your machine, it’s near impossible to remove unless you know what you’re doing. Malware doesn’t only put your computer at risk. It puts the computers on your network at risk, and it puts your customers and vendors at risk. Don’t take the chance and think you’re safe or have cleaned up the infection. I can help you KNOW you’re clean. I can help you stay clean.
DATA BACKUP & RECOVERY
I understand that your data is critical to your business. How confident are you that your data is secure? Risk comes from many places: fire, burglary, theft, natural disaster (hurricanes, flooding, wind, etc.). Are you sure you’re protected from all risk?
If you walked in to your office tomorrow morning, and found you had no customer data or no computers on which to work, what would you do? How long would it take you to recover? Could you recover?
I can provide you with a plan for protecting your data. My backup plans can have your computers up and running in just a couple of hours, getting you back in business quickly.
If you don’t have a backup plan in place but have still lost data, don’t panic. It may be recoverable, but time is of the essence because we need to attempt the recovery before other files are saved to the drive where the data once existed.
If you’d like a comprehensive assessment of your backup plan or if you know you need better protection than you’ve got now, call me.
Excellent data protection is inexpensive and easy. There really is no excuse for not having a good backup plan.
LICENSING
One of the biggest areas that I see people unknowingly put themselves at risk is with software licensing. Licensing is a complicated process that isn’t easy to follow. Can you afford to be caught violating your licenses?
The penalty, per instance, of violating a software license is a fine of up to $250,000 plus up to 5 years in prison.
How certain are you that you all your licenses are legal? I can help you understand the licensing policies of your software, assess your compliance, and get you in compliance if needed.
SERVICE CONTRACTS
IT costs can be difficult to manage. They’re certainly unpredictable, since you can’t forecast exactly what problems you’ll have. If you’re interested in getting your IT costs under control, I offer a variety of service contracts to help you do just that: manage your IT costs.
In addition to simplifying your IT budget, service contracts are a great way to ensure the regular maintenance of your environment is being performed. I’ll ensure your backups are functioning, your computers have the right OS Service Packs, Anti-virus/Anti-malware software is updated and working, check event logs for signs of possible problems and address them. Regular maintenance can go a long way to preventing or mitigating problems.
