IT Managed Services – Is it right for you?

What are Managed Services? Managed services is defined as the practice of outsourcing day-to-day management responsibilities and functions as a strategic method for improving operations and cutting expenses. Working with a managed services provider gives clients peace of mind and frees up valuable resources to focus on business productivity and profitability. What gets accomplished? Computer […]

Five Conversations to Have with Your IT Provider

What type of conversations do you currently have with your IT provider? If you’re looking for more value in these conversations, recognizing the opportunity technology holds for any business is a critical concept to embrace. As the foundation for growth and productivity, a quality IT service provider will thoroughly understand your business and provide a […]

A Technology Roadmap Provides Good Direction

It’s easy to feel like you’re in reactive mode when it comes to technology systems. If your business is highly sensitive to process and data sharing, you may be chasing after all the latest technology to remain competitive.  There’s an alternative. For the health of your business and long-term productivity, a technology roadmap is in […]

Own Your Business Communications Culture

Employees continue to cite being overwhelmed by business communications. They’re inundated with emails, voice mails, phone calls, instant messaging and texts. This prompted us to ask if businesses are playing an active role in helping employees manage these communications. And if so, how are they doing this? Business leaders might believe responsiveness and communication methods […]

How transparent should you be with your IT?

A workplace where all employees understand your company’s IT systems and software and feel empowered. Sound like a lofty goal? For many businesses, the IT consultant or team continues to work their magic behind the scenes so employees don’t even have to think about it. Most employees would agree, this is how they prefer it. […]

Data Security Procedure – Preventing Data Breach

Data Security Procedure Welcome to CSI Onsite’s blog page, we’re so very glad you joined us. In this post we continue with part two of a blog that started last week entitled Data Breach in which we discussed this very destructive and prolific cybercrime. Just in case you didn’t catch the previous blog allow me […]

VDI – Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

My wife informed me that my original title for this post “VDI and other productivity enhancing TLAs” was confusing, she also told in my hair looked ridiculous…She was right about the hair so I quick changed the title to the current iteration. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure or VDI, is not new to the IT computing world. […]

Open Mesh – Cloud Based Mangement Wireless Networks

We want to take a little time to tell you about an amazing modular wireless network system called Open Mesh. It doesn’t replace your router, it will expand your Wi-Fi network’s range, speed, and overall efficiency. And it is one of the most cost efficient IT solutions we have ever come across. Open Mesh is […]

Critical Data Storage and Recovery…What’s Your Plan?

Summer has officially kicked off in the state of Minnesota, the part of the world where CSI Onsite resides. For those of us who reside in Minnesota Since the readership for this blog is located across the globe allow me to briefly describe what Minnesota summer weather can be like. Minnesota is a state where […]

The Mighty, Mini Raspberry Pi -Part Two

If you consider yourself a techno-stein, hacker, or a dedicated IT enthusiast, and you’ve never heard about the Raspberry Pi, you’re in for a treat. In our last blog simply titled Raspberry Pi we briefly explored the credit card sized computer called Raspberry Pi and the organization (Raspberry Pi Foundation) responsible for creating and marketing […]