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29/10/12

Techtron Becomes MSPAlliance Member

The MSPAlliance (MSPA) the International Association of Managed Service Providers, today announced that Techtron Computers has become a member of the MSPAlliance. The MSPAlliance is the oldest Managed Services group and the only Accrediting and Standards based body for the Managed Services Industry. With over 9,000 members world-wide, the MSPAlliance is a very powerful and influential global organization, working to...
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29/10/12

Remote Backup Server Upgrade

We have recently completed a very smooth and seamless upgrade on our remote backup services. Not a single support call logged and zero disruption to our customers, thanks to excellent planning from the Techtron engineers. With growing demand for our remote backup service we were quickly running out of storage capacity on our main backup server. We have now more...
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29/10/12

Competitive Benchmarks – NSS Labs

Real Malware, Real Test, Real Solution, Real Protection for the Real World. Trend Micro Ranks #1 Again Real Malware NSS Labs sourced real socially-engineered malware on the Internet and tested each solution to see if they could block the threat at its source or during download (Caught Initially on Download) or when the threat executed on the machine (Caught Subsequently...
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29/10/12

IT Advise to our clients is FREE- don’t be afraid to ask for it!

Recently a client of ours decided to install a CRM package on their Small Business Server. The support personnel from the CRM company logged on to their server and had difficulty configuring the CRM. He eventually decided to remove IIS (a core component for Microsoft Exchange) which caused the Microsoft Exchange Store to get corrupted. The end result was 3...
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29/10/12

Bringing In The Decade

2010 has arrived with a bang. While most of South Africa are preparing for the World Cup and concentrating on this year only, Techtron Computers are planning their technology for the next few years. With the start of a new decade the inevitable change of technology has occurred. According to Gartner by the close of 2012, more than 50% of...
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29/10/12

Techtron Cape Argus Cycle Tour Team Fund Raising Initiative

Purpose: Techtron staff has bravely signed up to ride the 110km cycle tour taking place on the 13th March 2010. The initial goal of each member of the team was to finish the tour within the cut off time. Subsequently we have been asked to help in a worthwhile initiative to assist in raising funds for the GCU programme (details...
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29/10/12

Techtron Achieves Gold Partner Status with Secure Data – Feb 2009

Techtron Computers was recently awarded Gold Partner status with Secure Data in the Trend Micro range of products. Techtron has been working closely with Secure Data over the past year and our relationship has steadily grown. In addition to our strong working partnership the staff at Techtron all recently completed the Trend Micro training facilitated by Secure Data. The Trend...
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29/10/12

Techtron Now offers Managed Firewall to all clients – Oct 2008

Now you can also choose the Techtron Firewall Service. The combination of flexibility and scalability of this new alternative is designed to satisfy the security needs of any network. Features Firewall with stateful inspection The firewall is based on Stateful Inspection technology that identifies every incoming packet: by recognizing the source and contents of each packet, helping guard against unwanted...
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29/10/12

Techtron Now offers Remote Backup to all clients – May 2008

Techtron Online Backup Suite is a comprehensive data protection system. Techtron offers an easy-to-use and reliable backup solution to ensure that important business and personal data is protected and is readily available when needed Techtron Online Backup Manager is a multi-platform, robust and secure client software that works with our server software, for offsite backup of critical databases and files....
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29/10/12

Techtron Now offers Remote Support to all clients – 10 Oct 2007

Techtron Computers has been offering remote support to our server installations for the past few years. With our new offering we are able to Deliver instant support services to all our clients when you’re at the office, at home or on the road. Zero router configuration means that you can send and receive calls from Virtually anywhere in the world!...
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29/10/12

Techtron & FoneIT Merger – 1 Sept 2007

Techtron Computers is pleased to announce effective the 1st of Sep­tember 2007 a merger with FoneIT, a supplier of IT equipment and services, specializing in Microsoft product technologies. For the past four years, our corporate mission has been to become the supplier of choice for business IT services.  Our merger with FoneIT brings us one step closer to the accomplishment...
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29/10/12

Remote IT Support Tipping Point

Remote IT Support has become one of the standard services offered by almost all established IT support companies, due to the high demand coming from the marketplace, but at what point does remote support start negatively affecting you business when do you reach a tipping point? We all know the benefits of remote support: faster response time. better utilisation of...
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