Companies are increasing turning to the cloud to retain employees, increase productivity, and provide internal and external customers with the best service.
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ARG’s technology consulting now incorporates security. ARG has vetted providers and can help you make the right choice for your cybersecurity needs.
Using mobile devices outside of the office may be convenient for employees, but it must be managed effectively.
Changes to cellular data plans, exploding Samsungs, Wi-Fi Assist issues and why you may not want to buy the iPhone 7 quite yet.
Hosted VoIP and UCaas offer an enhanced experience using a number of digital features simply not possible on traditional platforms.
Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) vendors give small businesses affordable access to the expertise and resources needed to back up their critical infrastructure without the pain of a long window for recovery.
The enterprise world is primed to finally adopt web-based video conferencing as its go-to method of remote communication.
With thousands of UCaaS seats deployed throughout the Washington DC area for hundreds of clients on multiple carriers, here are the top reasons we see hosted voice adoption growing.
Employee engagement is key to keeping remote workers happy and productive. Surprisingly a technology consultant might empower your workforce with the tools they need to be successful and more engaged.
Moving to the cloud can offer SMBs countless benefits. Is your company ready to take advantage?
ARG had a Three-peat – taking home a Washington Post Top Workplace Award for the 3rd consecutive year!
Cisco WebEx was down for a good portion of Friday, June 3rd. Learn how to prevent future impacts whether you use or provide Internet-based services.
We examine several trends shaping the future of data center technology.
Cybercriminals are now using “ransomware” to hold organizations’ own documents captive until the company pays for their release.
Federal mediation has been approved, but the outlook is still not good for getting new services or moves completed. Even if you aren’t billed by Verizon your services may be impacted. If you have a move coming up, ensure you get early to ensure that your mission critical connectivity will not be compromised.
With speeds up to 100 times faster than 4G, next-gen networks will transform the way we do business.
Fusing traditional IaaS and SaaS models, cloud-enabled hosting relieves overburdened IT departments while improving business agility.
As we wrap up week one of the Verizon workers strike, we are beginning to see some impacts to our clients. Service windows are expanding and the chance that a window will be missed is increasing. As the strike continues, our experience is that intervals and responsiveness may continue to erode as the backlog of work increases. Run through this quick checklist to ensure that your company is in a strong position to survive service interruptions.
As you know, Verizon is on strike as of this morning. Over the years, we have seen Verizon strikes that last hours, days, weeks and months. It’s hard to predict what will happen here. So, while we hope for a quick resolution, we have to prepare for a longer term dispute.
At ARG, this event is an opportunity for us to show our clients value. Throughout the industry, every shortcoming in the coming weeks will be blamed on the Verizon strike. Some of it will be true. Much of it will not. At ARG, we want to discern the truth. We want to come up with solutions and alternatives. We want to anticipate potential issues and delays. We want to listen to our clients and communicate frequently. We want to make a difference.
We regularly manage RFPs & project plans to upgrade technology to hosted voice/UCaaS (unified communications as a service). There are a number of reasons organizations are moving this way: business continuity and disaster recovery, future proof technology, scalability, and the desire to offload the management and move everything to the cloud. In the interest of setting realistic expectations for deployment, I sat down with ARG’s project management and implementation engineering groups to find out best practices…
As the east coast gears up for the blizzard, we wanted to remind you that ARG is here to help you weather the storm. We’ve been in touch with our carriers to make sure resources have been lined up to respond as quickly possible for restore and repair. ARG is here to assist you when troubles arise. We are here to answer your calls, open tickets, escalate with the carriers and provide technical consulting and troubleshooting along the way.
ARG has been incredibly successful this year lowering our customers wireless bills by an average of over 38%. As a special end of the year offer, ARG would like to provide you with a free mobility health review. We want to put you in the best wireless financial position to start 2016. The ARGRead more
ARG has been working in the cloud space for years now but increasing demand from customers has built to a point where we needed additional resources. We spent months exploring the market and speaking with the best technical minds to find the breadth of experience that we felt would most benefit our clients. We alsoRead more
ARG was thrilled to be selected as on of Virginia’s Best Places to Work this week.
ARG’s engineers make a huge difference every day for our customers, but sometimes the difference is too pretty not to share.
It seems like hacks and thefts of information are in the news daily, from Ashley Madison to the US Government, airlines, and businesses, no one seems to be exempt from the threat. So what can you do to protect your organization and your client or members’ information.
If you couldn’t make it to the seminar, check out the live tweets from the event at #ARGSeminar. You can also reach out to us through our Contact page or info@myarg.com. An ARG consultant can set up a meeting to review UC best practices, and help you find a solution that best fits your unique business needs.
Matt West, one of ARG’s resident Implementation Engineers, saved a client some money last week by helping him short out a binding post with a quarter.
The client has a few plain old telephone lines. The first three lines were delivered to the wrong demarc, so Matt figured this one would be delivered to the wrong place as well. The carrier ordered the line, and then sent the number and binding post information. Matt called the new number and it was ring no answer, which is what it should have been.
We did it! For the second year in a row, ARG has been selected for The Washington Post’s Top Workplaces list.
The Washington Post partnered with WorkplaceDynamics, an employee-survey firm based in Philadelphia, and asked the employees of nominated companies to evaluate their employers based on 22 questions covering the job, leadership and organizational health. Within each size category, the employers were ranked based solely on employee responses to the survey statements.
DC got a wake up call yesterday as a piece of PEPCO equipment broke loose in Mechanicsville, Md and knocked out electricity to the White House, State Department, a large chunk of the nation’s capital and Maryland suburbs early yesterday afternoon. The outage wasn’t caused by a natural disaster or terrorism and served as reminder to many of the importance of having a backup plan.