Latest Aaronswann Podcast Episodes
IT Coach for Growing Businesses - Season 2, Episode 15
IT Coach for Growing Businesses - December 23, 2020 14:04 - 15 minutesIf one of your goals in 2021 is to harness the power of IT process automation, our partners at Red Hat have some good news: Ansible, an open source community project that is simple to use, reliable, and one of the fastest ways to automate IT, is making waves and transforming how businesses accom...
IT Coach for Growing Businesses - Season 2, Episode 14
IT Coach for Growing Businesses - December 01, 2020 14:02 - 25 minutesThink phishing scams don’t pose a real threat to your business? Think again. In this conversation of IT Coach for Growing Businesses, InfoSystems’ vCIO, Aaron Swann, discusses the various ways malware can access an organization’s network through email phishing scams. The conversation provides co...
IT Coach for Small Business Leaders - Season 2, Episode 13
IT Coach for Growing Businesses - October 21, 2020 20:35 - 30 minutesIn this episode, Aaron and Fred discuss value-adds that vCISOs can deliver to organizations. From learning how to create and follow a secure password policy to the most critical security needs, learn how to address common cybersecurity concerns from our vCISO.
IT Coach for Small Business Leaders - Season 2, Episode 12
IT Coach for Growing Businesses - September 23, 2020 15:39 - 22 minutesIn this episode, Aaron and Danika discuss a question from a listener - "How do I protect my company's wireless network in a high traffic area?" Many companies are surrounded or nearby busy streets, other businesses, and housing. This means your wireless network is being seen hundreds of times ea...
IT Coach for Small Business Leaders - Season 2, Episode 11
IT Coach for Growing Businesses - May 01, 2020 12:53 - 36 minutesIn this episode, Aaron and Josh discuss a question from a listener - "How do I select a good home router?" A router is what sits between you and the internet. Selecting the right home router depends on factors like the size of your home and your internet speed. While this podcast was made for sm...
IT Coach for Small Business Leaders - Season 2, Episode 10
IT Coach for Growing Businesses - April 15, 2020 20:48 - 22 minutesIn this episode, Aaron and Josh discuss how to choose a computer. Choosing a new computer for your specific needs is never an easy task. Not to mention, it's time consuming. Much like buying a car, you have an abundance of styles, sizes, and speeds available at your fingertips - but choose too q...
IT Coach for Small Business Leaders - Season 2, Episode 9
IT Coach for Growing Businesses - April 01, 2020 12:44 - 18 minutesIn this episode, Aaron and Josh discuss a question from a listener - "When I try to go to websites, I sometimes get error messages. What are they trying to tell me?" Error messages look like this, "This site is not secure," "Certificate can't be trusted," or "Your connection is not secure," and ...
IT Coach for Small Business Leaders - Season 2, Episode 8
IT Coach for Growing Businesses - March 16, 2020 16:44 - 18 minutesIn this episode, Aaron and Josh discuss the "De Facto IT Person." AKA the office manager or employee who has proved capable to fix small technical issues, so is given all IT duties. You may not realize how common this scenario is within companies of all sizes.
IT Coach for Small Business Leaders - Season 2, Episode 7
IT Coach for Growing Businesses - March 02, 2020 13:46 - 18 minutesIn this episode, Aaron and Josh discuss how a Virtual CIO (vCIO) can benefit businesses that don't have C-level or senior IT leadership. A CIO (Chief Information Officer) is responsible for all of the internal technology that runs a business. The most important role a CIO plays in an organizatio...
IT Coach for Small Business Leaders - Season 2, Episode 6
IT Coach for Growing Businesses - February 16, 2020 13:51 - 18 minutesIn this episode, Aaron and Josh continue the series on Managed Services. Today's discussion covers a number of Software Services (antivirus, spam filtering, email, security training, etc.) that can be monitored and maintained by an IT company as part of a managed services agreement.
IT Coach for Small Business Leaders - Season 2, Episode 5
IT Coach for Growing Businesses - February 16, 2020 13:37 - 16 minutesYou've probably heard IT people talk about end-points and have no idea what they're talking about. An end-point is each individual device connected to your company's network that employees are using. Laptops, PCs, cell phones, and tablets are all end-points. In this episode, Aaron and Josh dis...
IT Coach for Small Business Leaders - Season 2, Episode 4
IT Coach for Growing Businesses - January 15, 2020 21:48 - 12 minutesIn this episode, Aaron and Josh discuss how to determine what type of IT services provider you may need, how to choose the right type of provider, and the questions you should ask before hiring them. There are many options available to help you solve IT issues that arise. Finding the right provi...
IT Coach for Small Business Leaders - Season 2, Episode 3
IT Coach for Growing Businesses - January 02, 2020 16:03 - 14 minutesOn this episode of “IT Coach for Small Business Leaders”, Virtual CIO, Aaron Swann, discusses firewalls and how a managed service provider can help manage your firewall. When it comes to firewalls, there is much to take into account. From policies to content filtering to life cycles. It can get ...
IT Coach for Small Business Leaders - Season 2, Episode 2
IT Coach for Growing Businesses - December 16, 2019 13:41 - 16 minutesOn this episode of “IT Coach for Small Business Leaders,” Virtual CIO, Aaron Swann, discusses managed backups and how to determine your business' backup needs. Early-stage businesses that don't have the cash to spend on professional help may be able to implement "DIY" backups. But as your bu...
IT Coach for Small Business Leaders - Season 2, Episode 1
IT Coach for Growing Businesses - December 04, 2019 20:03 - 16 minutesWe're excited to launch season 2 of IT Coach for Small Business Leaders and hope you enjoy all of the topics we plan to cover in 2020. In this episode we dive deeper into the topic of "Managed IT Services." With so many IT service providers offering "managed services," it's important for busin...
Ep 18 - IT Coach for Business Leaders with Aaron Swann
IT Coach for Growing Businesses - May 13, 2019 12:41 - 23 minutesIn this episode, InfoSystems vCIO, Aaron Swann, and Marketing Director, Josh Davis, discuss how a "Managed Services" agreement may mean you are unknowingly outsourcing your IT systems management to another country. We compare the way InfoSystems delivers locally managed IT services, to other mod...
Ep 17 - IT Coach for Business Leaders
IT Coach for Growing Businesses - April 15, 2019 12:24 - 20 minutesWe're beginning our podcast episodes for 2019 on the topic of Cyber Security. It has become more and more urgent for organizations to make sure that all employees receive adequate training on how to recognize cyber attacks and other security threats. It's also crucial for companies to draft and ...
Episode 16 - IT Coach for Business Leaders
IT Coach for Growing Businesses - March 29, 2019 18:17 - 16 minutesWe're beginning our podcast episodes for 2019 on the topic of Cyber Security. It has become more and more urgent for organizations to make sure that all employees receive adequate training on how to recognize cyber attacks and other security threats. It's also crucial for companies to draft and ...
Episode 14 - IT Coach for Business Leaders
IT Coach for Growing Businesses - October 11, 2018 18:45 - 29 minutesTechnology has become so important to business operations that most companies can't run if their IT systems are down. Despite that fact, when it comes to construction, renovation, and general environmental decisions at a place of business, technology is typically an afterthought. In this episode...
Episode 13 - IT Coach for Business Leaders
IT Coach for Growing Businesses - September 27, 2018 12:55 - 32 minutesOne of the most common pieces of customer feedback we hear from InfoSystems customers is how much they value the time they spend with our vCIO, Aaron Swann (a major reason we love having him on our podcasts). In this episode of IT Coach for Business Leaders, we talk through a very common scenari...
Episode 12 - IT Coach for Business Leaders
IT Coach for Growing Businesses - September 25, 2018 19:17 - 28 minutesOne of the most common pieces of customer feedback we hear from InfoSystems customers is how much they value the time they spend with our vCIO, Aaron Swann (a major reason we love having him on our podcasts). In this episode of IT Coach for Business Leaders, we discuss some of the specific ways ...
Episode 11 - IT Coach for Business Leaders
IT Coach for Growing Businesses - August 15, 2018 17:14 - 42 minutesInfoSystems recently completed a survey in which 55 companies in the state of Tennessee answered 13 questions related to their business, their IT department, and their perspective on technology. Episode 11 of the podcast "IT Coach for Business Leaders" features a discussion around some of the su...
IT Coach for Business Leaders with Aaron Swann - Ep 10
IT Coach for Growing Businesses - August 02, 2018 15:56 - 35 minutesInfoSystems recently completed a survey in which 55 companies in the state of Tennessee answered 13 questions related to their business, their IT department, and their perspective on technology. Episode 10 of the podcast "IT Coach for Business Leaders" features a discussion around some of the su...
IT Coach for Business Leaders with Aaron Swann - Ep 9
IT Coach for Growing Businesses - May 30, 2018 13:19 - 35 minutesIn this episode, we discuss one of the aspects of a business IT strategy that is often inadequately executed - Backups. This discussion spans three episodes. In the third part, we discuss Aaron's commonly recommended "one-size-fits-most" approach to provide the greatest backup protection at a va...
IT Coach for Business Leaders with Aaron Swann - Ep 8
IT Coach for Growing Businesses - May 15, 2018 17:13 - 33 minutesIn this episode, we discuss one of the aspects of a business IT strategy that is often inadequately executed - Backups. This discussion spans three episodes. In the second part, we discuss several of the most common actual backup scenarios Aaron has seen over the last 24 years working with InfoS...
Episode 7 - IT Coach for Business Leaders with Aaron Swann
IT Coach for Growing Businesses - April 27, 2018 15:23 - 30 minutesIn this episode, we discuss one of the aspects of a business IT strategy that is often inadequately executed - Backups. This discussion spans three episodes. In the first part, we discuss the importance of a well-executed backup strategy and why the business owner/executives should be involved i...
Episode 6 - IT Coach for Business Leaders with Aaron Swann
IT Coach for Growing Businesses - April 13, 2018 20:37 - 39 minutesIn this episode, we discuss one of the top three IT challenges for small and mid-sized business - IT Security. This discussion spans two episodes. In the second part, we review the most common "places" where employees encounter security threats and how they can be trained to handle them. Liste...
Episode 5 - IT Coach for Business Leaders with Aaron Swann
IT Coach for Growing Businesses - March 13, 2018 19:13 - 36 minutesIn this episode, we discuss one of the top three IT challenges for small and mid-sized business - IT Security. This discussion spans two episodes. In the first part, we review the "hassle factor" that IT security places on business leaders and talk about the most common areas that present securi...
Episode 4 - IT Coach for Business Leaders with Aaron Swann
IT Coach for Growing Businesses - December 21, 2017 14:48 - 37 minutesIn this episode, we discuss one of the top three IT challenges for small and mid-sized business - staying current with business technology. We review both sides of this challenge - keeping owned technology up to date, and evaluating new technology in the market that could help provide competitiv...
Episode 3 - IT Coach for Business Leaders with Aaron Swann
IT Coach for Growing Businesses - November 07, 2017 14:46 - 36 minutesIn this episode, we discuss one of the top three IT challenges for small and mid-sized business - addressing IT skills gaps. We review landmark events that often expose skills gaps, the most common skills gaps we see in the market, and the effects of not addressing skills gaps. Listen in to le...
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