BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: Altec Has Evolved into Your Total Business Technology Solution Specialists

ALTEC HAS BEEN SERVING BREVARD COUNTY FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS

Altec is a Rockledge company with more than three decades of experience not only helping businesses stay secure and operational, but also providing sales, installation and supplies for local companies, as well as for residential customers. “We started as a print/toner company and have evolved over the years,” said sales manager Wyatt Willis.

NOW ALSO SERVING RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS WITH THEIR TOTAL IT NEEDS

BREVARD COUNTY • ROCKLEDGE, FLORIDA – It is a universal truth about technology that problems will eventually arise, usually at the most inopportune of times. Unfortunately, no company or individual is immune to the threat of data or equipment failure.

Since our businesses, and our lives, are now intrinsically connected to technology, it is imperative to have someone watching our backs, a partner you can trust.

The partner is Altec, a woman-owned Rockledge company with more than three decades of experience not only helping businesses stay secure and operational, but also providing sales, installation and supplies for local companies, as well as for residential customers.

“We started as a print/toner company and have evolved over the years,” said sales manager Wyatt Willis. The evolution continues, as Altec expands into the residential consumer market.

“We were originally business-to-business and are now also business-to-consumer,” added Willis.

At the company’s headquarters in Rockledge, customers can purchase a range of technology and ancillary supplies, but that is just the tip of range of services. 

“We do everything from toner to IT,” said Willis. “We serve all of Brevard, from Mims to Micco. We provide an on-the-ground IT team at a fraction of the cost of others.”

Wyatt Willis, Altec sales manager, explains to a client how to make their networking infrastructure more efficient. “We do everything from toner to IT,” said Willis. “We serve all of Brevard, from Mims to Micco. We provide an on-the-ground IT team at a fraction of the cost of others.”

AT-HOME TECHNOLOGY

It is not unusual for business customers to tap onto Altec for help with at-home technology.

For example, while resolving IT issues at a local auto restoration company, the owner’s father asked for help with internet connectivity at home, which was spotty and only allowed for one device to be used at a time. The Altec technician quickly solved the problem by installing wifi-boosting equipment.

“It was a simple solution to an annoying problem,” said Willis. “We solved his problem without breaking his wallet.”

Altec professionals can install both business and residential systems, so customers can avoid do-it-yourself headaches that invariably pop up. Should issues later arise, the Altec team is again at the ready. 

“All the business or individual need do is call the Help Desk,” said Willis. “We make it a priority to be available whenever the need for help arises.”

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Altec technician Jeremy Smithson repairs a client’s multifunction printer. The Help Desk is available 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., but customers can also opt for the 24/7
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Internet outages spotlight uneven improvement and power concentration

The web is now an crucial home utility for quite a few People, it’s possible even on the identical footing as managing h2o. 

It turns out the internet’s pipes can spring a leak, way too. 

In the past a few weeks, two major outages at Amazon’s cloud computing solutions have led to common disruptions at other on the internet solutions. Past thirty day period, a trouble at Comcast, just one of the biggest net support companies in the U.S., led to widespread outages. (Comcast owns NBC News.) And in June, websites all over the world were being quickly knocked offline when Fastly, a cloud computing service service provider, dealt with “service configuration” challenges.

The drumbeat of troubles underscores that the online, regardless of all it is capable of, is sometimes fragile. 

“It’s anticipated to be like your ability or your drinking water, and they often go down,” stated Steve Moore, the chief safety strategist at the cybersecurity company Exabeam. 

The most up-to-date disruption transpired Wednesday, when shoppers of DoorDash, Hulu and other sites complained that they could not link. The difficulties have been traced to Amazon Website Companies, or AWS, the most widely made use of cloud solutions business, which claimed that outages in two of its 26 geographic locations were influencing solutions nationwide. 

A equivalent disruption took area Dec. 7, crippling online video streams, halting net-connected robotic vacuum cleaners and even shutting down pet meals dispensers in a sequence of reminders of how much everyday living has moved on the internet, especially during the coronavirus pandemic. AWS posted an unusually comprehensive description of what went incorrect, alongside with an apology. 

The incidents helped to explode the illusion, reinforced by decades of steadily increasing internet pace and dependability, that daily individuals can depend on online products and services to be obtainable without having fall short. 

It made use of to be that on the web video clip meant watching “a low-res online video for 5 minutes,” reported Robert Blumofe, the executive vice president and chief technologies officer at Akamai Systems. Akamai sells protection solutions as nicely as “edge computing” capabilities, a type of dispersed technological innovation that does not rely as considerably on centralized knowledge facilities.

“Now, there’s a very potent expectation that you could enjoy an entire motion picture in substantial-res,” Blumofe said. “There’s a recency bias. We recall the speedy and the now additional than we bear in mind the way points have been in the previous,” when outages have been frequent.

In other words, some Americans who appreciate reputable world wide web access might have become a small spoiled.

Authorities in personal computer science and stability reported the interruptions really do not truly simply call into problem the essential style and design of the world wide web, a person of the founding tips of which was that a dispersed procedure can typically keep on functioning even if a single piece goes down. 

But they said the complications are rooted in the uneven improvement of

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