Top Technologies to support Working from Home

The growth of COVID-19 is motivating an increasing number of companies to allow workers to work from home. Have they, however, equipped their workforce to do so? Modern businesses are jam-packed with technology and infrastructure that allows people to work, yet most households lack even a portion of such assistance. The global economy is changing, […]

IT Roadmap | We Would Love to Help Your Business

Please find enclosed a link below, where we have prepared a quick and easy questionnaire. This will help Astec IT to provide suggestions on technologies that will help your company to work securely and effectively. These recommendations will be present to you as part of an IT roadmap. We can help your employees work more efficiently, collaboratively, and creatively […]

Working From Home | Remote Working in a Connected World

Working from home is a blessing in normal circumstances – waking up later, eating a good breakfast every morning, no daily commute to and from the office – the benefits are numerous. But the practicalities of working from home are far from straight-forward. The recent lockdown has meant that all those that can work from […]

IT Support Under Pressure | IT Support Post-Lockdown

– To Support or not to support – that is the question!  ‘Whether ‘tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous business circumstance, or take up arms with high level IT support, and by opposing end them.’ Businesses are coming under increasing pressure to get back to work, and back into the office. […]

IT Downtime | The True Cost of IT Downtime

Astec IT is a specialist IT support provider, and our clients’ IT needs are all different and reflects the diverse range of sectors and products that they provide. There is one factor that unites them all. This is the question of IT downtime, and the true cost to their business.  Downtime can be represented in […]

Zoom Conferencing | Zoom Online Video Calls – friend or foe?

It would have been impossible for Zoom to have anticipated the immense rise in use of their video platform at the beginning of the year. They experienced a December period last year where 10M users made use of their platform, and even that is inflated by some seasonal use in the run up to Christmas […]