The Cautious Vs. the Bold

Many large IT departments exercise a significant degree of caution in ensuring their networks function well. This generally involves staying a version or two behind the latest technologies. However, greatness often requires boldness. This has been a balancing act that companies throughout history, from IBM to Apple, have struggled with. Very often, IT departments have stayed on the conservative side of this spectrum — technology generally undergoes a serious amount of testing and waiting before it is deployed slowly throughout the enterprise, generally a couple of years behind the technology that workers themselves use at home.

In the days when companies could not experience stability of a product till the third version, it was understandable. However, these days, far fewer testing cycles are required, and products are far more stable and secure from the onset than before. Thus, the models of extreme caution might not be applicable anymore.

While there might always be a need for some level of testing and planning before an upgrade, it’s important to keep in mind if a large delay is actually hurting the security, stability, and performance of your network, rather than ensuring it. Your IT service provider can help you determine how much caution, and how much boldness, is worth implementing in this day and age.

We have noticed a disturbing trend here in Las Vegas over the last year or so. Outsourced IT companies will go in and work with one of our clients at bargain basement prices, and then 6 months later, they’ll be out of business and the customer’s network is in shambles.  It is interesting this seems to happen, one with think with more business, they should be able to make their payroll and retain staff…  but this is the crux of the problem.

Good staff is not cheap.  Having the best tools to keep your network up costs thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars.  When a company decided to be the cost leader in the field, if they do not have tremendous buying power, like an Accenture, they are only able to do this by one of the following methods:

1. Invest less in their employees which means you are likely to get lessexperienced computer technicians in Las Vegas
2. Cut their IT investment which means your network is going to be supported by older tools which may not protect you from potential threats to your network
3. By making all the projects they do have “change orders” …  a fancy way to say you have to pay more money because they didn’t account for any hiccups.

If you are seeing that your computer technician in Las Vegas is charging 20% less or more than everyone else, there is a real cause for concern.  If it is 10%, you are likely still dealing with someone who can support you and is just being aggressive in their pricing.

If you have been experiencing the bad effects of a cheap computer technician in Las Vegas and want to have a better experience please give us a call.

This is great for you in terms of cost, but it isn’t always as nice in terms of the infrastructure these professionals need to be efficient.  You may pay half the price, but with their diminished tools, it can take a time and a half or twice as long to get work done, netting out to be more or less the same.

Working with our company, you will get the best of both worlds.  You will get the lower pricing like you would get with a small IT Outsoucing group in Las Vegas, but we have been in business for years, meaning we have already heavily invested in the technology you will need to have the most efficient computer technician in Las Vegas.

Please give us a call for a free network analysis or to have a simple question answered about your computer network in Las Vegas!