KalioTek Blog

For many small businesses, hardware upgrades are a constant source of budget trauma. They might wait until technology is completely inoperable before taking action and, therefore, fall victim to the greatest pitfall of all: replacing too much all at once. While this is expensive, it also creates the operational bottleneck of everyone in your organization trying to learn new systems all at once, which further exacerbates the issue.

One month ago, the United States Federal Communications Commission put forth a ban on the sale of all Wi-Fi routers made outside the US, giving manufacturers the option to apply for a conditional approval exemption on the agency’s website.

Let’s talk about what this ban is going to mean to your business (and to your entire team’s personal lives) as things progress. Fair warning, things aren’t going to be simple.

We’re at a weird point in the technology world (but honestly, when is it not at least a little convoluted?). Right now, modern technology has been slowly shifting between a few different technologies and consumers and businesses are stuck in the middle trying to figure out what to do and how to future-proof their hardware investments.

If you look at the loadout of ports on a new laptop or desktop and you are confused, we don’t blame you. Between awkward naming conventions for ports, a lack of education on the differences between these technologies, and brand new legislation for companies like Apple to ditch their proprietary technology to use something more standard, it can be daunting to make sure you get a device that connects to the other devices you already have.

We’re going to break down these new ports, from USB to Thunderbolt to HDMI, and help you make the right decisions before you purchase that new device.

Outdated machines, software or employee practices can lead to major security problems. These big companies faced painful fines for their IT mistakes.