How to Overcome the Panic Behind Meltdown and Spectre

It’s not uncommon for news agencies to sensationalize stories around major cyber security vulnerabilities and potential hacks that could occur. The latest craze is around Meltdown and Spectre. Heck the names even sound cool and dangerous. The complexities and mystique around what hackers are doing can often times worry those that don’t necessarily have a […]
4 Ways IT Vendors May Be Coming Up Short for Healthcare

Extended care facilities put a lot of faith in their IT vendors to supply the advanced, secure technologies they need to ensure residents receive a high level of care and service. However, the very same vendors those facilities are counting on could inadvertently be leaving sensitive data – including resident’s protected health information (PHI) – […]
Free IT of Time-Consuming, Resource-Draining Malware False Alarms

IT teams are struggling to spot legitimate malware threats over the white noise generated by false alarms and it’s costing their employers. How much? In terms of the financial cost, the price tag comes out to $1.27 million annually. Switching gears and looking at the human element, IT teams waste an average of 395 combined […]
NYSE, United Airlines at Center of Nightmare Week for IT

At least momentarily during last week’s news cycle, for what seems like the first time in a long time, hackers and data breaches took a backseat to regular old IT glitches. On Wednesday, the New York Stock Exchange and United Airlines each suffered malfunctions that were not malicious attacks, but still caused outages and managed […]
Managed Services or New Hires?

Torn between opting for a Managed Services partnership and going the new hire route to expand the capabilities of your IT team? If both options seem to be on equal footing at first, a deeper dive can reveal intangibles which may provide some separation. These five questions can give you the clarity you need to […]
Customers Speak Out on Arraya's Managed Services

Arraya’s Managed and Cloud Services have received their share of customer praise, vendor acknowledgement and industry recognition over the years. Despite all of that positivity, we believe there’s always room to grow and improve our services. In order to learn where we were succeeding and where we could do better, we put together our first […]
Arraya Celebrates the Success of its Inaugural Tech Summit

Knowledge shared, technologies spotlighted at debut Tech Summit Attendees from a diverse cross-section of industries packed the hallways, conference rooms and ballroom of the Sheraton Valley Forge in King of Prussia last Thursday for the inaugural Arraya Solutions Tech Summit. The event, which was hailed as being “by techs, for techs,” was designed to give attendees […]
Audit Identifies Security Gaps 3 Weeks Before Historic Breach

Time is of the essence when it comes to plugging gaps in your IT security. Just ask Premera Blue Cross. Last spring, federal auditors combed through Premera’s systems and uncovered a number of shortcomings. Flash forward three weeks: the issues hadn’t been addressed and hackers took advantage, potentially gaining access to the personal, financial and […]
Arraya Solutions Named to Manage Service Provider 500 List by CRN

Company Recognized for Exemplary Approach to Delivery of Managed IT Services Arraya Solutions announced today it has earned recognition on The Channel Company’s 2015 CRN Managed Service Provider (MSP) 500 list as one of the MSP Elite 150. This annual list distinguishes the top technology providers and consultants in North America whose leading approach to managed […]
Microsoft Pulls Plug on Publicly-Available ANS

Heads up: The time has come to say goodbye to Advance Notification Service (ANS). Well, at least the public version of it anyway. Microsoft has announced plans to bring an end to the publically-available version of ANS and only make it available to select customers. ANS was conceived over a decade ago to play a […]