Trailblazers Tech Solutions Blog

Businesses face a myriad of challenges, many of which originate from within their walls. Whether it's dealing with cyberthreats, dissatisfied customers, or unreliable suppliers, every business leader must navigate various internal and external issues. However, internal problems can sometimes be the most disruptive. Today, we’ll explore two significant employee-related challenges that can create substantial obstacles for business owners.

Most business owners don’t have the right technology in place. We see it all the time. A company will call us because they are not seeing the returns they anticipated on their technology investment, and after the assessment, they simply don’t have the right tools in place.

Make no mistake about it, electing the right technology for your business is crucial for success. In today’s blog, we provide four tips to guide you in making the best choice.

Scams are so common that everyone should fear them. That doesn’t mean we should be paralyzed by them, though. They’re mostly easy enough to spot, provided you know what to look for. Today, we’re covering these red flags and how you can identify a scam and consider all warning signs to make it out of such a situation unscathed.

Data powers businesses, but it’s not just confined to the professional world—we share vast amounts of data in our personal lives, too. Even seemingly trivial communications like chats, grocery requests, and meme or pet picture exchanges are data. And wherever there’s data, there’s a place where it’s stored.

Ask your HR representative how their job goes most days and you’ll get an emphatic “It’s going.” One way that you can make HR easier is through the implementation of technology solutions. By giving your team better tools to manage their tasks, you can ensure that they feel empowered to handle their tasks as efficiently as possible.

Data backup may not be at the forefront of your business’ technology list, but it needs to be a consideration. Like much of the technology we use for our businesses, backup is going through a lot of positive innovations at the moment. Let’s take a look at five things that are going to change the look of enterprise data redundancy.

It doesn’t take much to crack a low-effort password. To put a stop to hackers, you can use one extremely simple tactic: use long, random, complex strings of characters. Unfortunately, this is easier said than done for some people, as remembering passwords is also something that needs to happen. Today, we want to highlight the passphrase and how it can both bolster your password security and make your passwords easier to remember.

Gmail allows users to have their inboxes automatically sorted into different categories, making it far easier to accomplish the fabled “inbox zero.” This is called “priority inbox,” and it is remarkably, even laughably, simple to set up.

Let’s go over how.

There is an important distinction in business between knowing what a problem is at the moment versus what a problem might be in the future. It’s crucial that businesses understand how to assess the risk of situations and determine what must be addressed immediately. Today, we want to help your business determine these problems and flip the script on them, turning them into opportunities for improvement.

Businesses often struggle with network security. When they do manage to keep up with the near-constant demands of the industry, they end up implementing technology they may not fully understand. However, we can help! Let’s dive into three of the most important components of network security that your business should keep in mind.

Business owners have a lot to deal with. When you are trying to navigate your business, cybersecurity can be a major issue. There are a lot of types of software out there that you can lean on to help maintain your business’ cybersecurity. Let’s take a look at several of them today.

For years, you've heard about the growing role of technology in healthcare, promising to stabilize costs, improve access, and personalize care delivery. As these innovations take hold, however, they also raise serious concerns about data privacy. Today, we’ll explore some of the technological advancements in healthcare and their implications for patient data privacy.

Technology plays a vital role in nearly every operation. As a result, businesses—especially those that rely heavily on IT—need reliable IT support.

For most small and medium-sized businesses, managed IT services have become the go-to solution. Here’s why.

The cloud is a technology that can fundamentally change how a business operates, and in many more ways than one. We wanted to review what the cloud is and touch on the utility it can bring in pursuit of various operational goals and needs.

Effective communication is crucial in business, as it provides a platform to address customer concerns. In today’s blog, we’ll explore why Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is one of the most valuable technologies any organization can implement.

Passwords. You might hate that you have to remember them, but they are still an important part of your security infrastructure. Today, we want to highlight some of the common passwords people use, why using them is a bad idea, and what you can do to nip this problem in the bud.

In the pursuit of harnessing data effectively, businesses use various strategies like business intelligence and artificial intelligence integration. Accurate and reliable data is very important. Wrong data can cause mistakes and give wrong information. Thus, understanding how to clean or scrub data is essential for anyone involved in business intelligence or AI. This guide will explore data cleaning and provide a simple starting point.

The smartphone is right there with your car keys and your wallet with the must-haves when you leave the house. You’ll also find yourself laying on your couch or in bed staring at it for an hour. They are a tool that everyone seemingly uses all the time, and can be a huge benefit for individual productivity.

Technology is crucial for business operations today, regardless of a company’s size or growth. Therefore, it is vital that the IT infrastructure can adapt to changes in business scale.

Let’s discuss why having an IT infrastructure that fits your business is important and explore best practices for tailoring it.

Sometimes, the most straightforward tips, like the Undo button, can be the most powerful. If you mess up, most Windows programs (and other visual programs) let you undo what you did before. Today, we want to remind you of Undo and Redo, as well as three other essential keyboard shortcuts.