The school year is off to a great start. With this being the first year that school started with every student in the high school having a laptop, the network support was essential. In addition to the classes that the teachers had to prepare for, they also had to be ready to make use of the new technology that would accompany every student that entered a classroom. And while it is a lot of work, the excitement around the new technology has provided the entire school with a variety of new approaches to teach in all of the classroom.
Math students are creating their own lessons to teach classmates how to memorize essential formulas. English students work as a group, with the help of the new network support, to brainstorm and then narrow in on essay topics. Physics students film their experiments so that they can have video to play back to the class when results are presented. The list goes on and on. These new lessons, however, require IT services and network support so that time can be spent on learning and not troubleshooting.
Large and Small Business IT Support Provides Assurances to Owners and Customers Alike
From classroom to coasts, and from hospitals to hotel chains, computer network support teams are essential. As the nation approaches another weekend of devastating hurricane weather, this time it is Florida getting most of the attention. And while the governor has cancelled schools and announced evacuations, network computer support teams and data centers throughout the region are taking their own precautions as well. Fighting and surviving a major weather event is just one way task of data storage centers around the world. From keeping workers, customers, and management connected on the calm, sunny days to looking for solutions in even the worst of weather, IT teams help businesses and non profits alike.
Businesses, school districts, hospitals, and state and federal agencies of all size are increasingly dependent on technology. Knowing that data and communication links are available 24/7 is a standard for almost all industries. Unfortunately, it is in times of extreme weather conditions like Hurricane Irma when hurricane proof data centers are really tested. As the nation prepares to watch a hurricane of epic proportions make landfall, IT departments watch and prepare to see if all of their plans are successful.
Universities, colleges, and now entire kindergarten through grade 12 school districts are also dependent on district IT providers. From the youngest students who are learning to use tablets to access age appropriate web sites to high school students who are now using a school issued laptop instead of textbooks, even the youngest minds rely on a team of network IT personnel to know that they are getting the most out of their educational opportunities.
Consider some of these statistics about the growing use of network support systems in this country:
- 31% of IT services have been outsourced, according to Deloitte?s 2016 Global Outsourcing Survey,
- Phishing campaigns target small businesses 43% of the time, according to Symantec?s 2016 Internet Security Threat Report.
- 60 billion emails are sent every day, 97% of which are spam.
- 58% are worried about cyber attacks.
- 12.8% of all IT workers in the U.S. are computer support specialists.
- IT workers represent 2.9% of the U.S. labor force today.
- 12.8% of all IT workers in the U.S. are computer support specialists.
- Worldwide IT spending is projected to reach $3.5 trillion in 2017.
- 450,000 was the number of information technology workers in the U.S. in the year 1970. This number increased to 4.6 million by the year 2014, according to the U.S. Census Bureau?s American Community Survey.
- Increasing to $2,199.3 billion in 2015, the global information technology market saw a substantial increase from $2,081.9 billion in the previous year of 2014.
Hopefully, the school year in your local district is off to a good start, and if the students are relying on technology for their homework and textbooks, hopefully a strong IT group will make sure that the whole school year goes as well as the first day. Are you satisfied with the IT support you currently use? If not, now may be the perfect time to look for a new provider or computer network support option.
