Blog

Our blog is the place to be for all things IT and portal related

Portal Technologies Christmas Opening Times

Portal Technologies Christmas Opening Times

Christmas and New Year Opening Hours With the holidays fast approaching, we want to remind our customers of our opening hours during this time. Thursday 24th December - 9am - 1.30pm Friday 25th...

Portal Technologies moves to Stirling

Portal Technologies moves to Stirling

Portal Technologies has some exciting news to share this morning... We’ve moved!! As the Scotland men’s national team went on to qualify for their first major tournament in 22 years on Thursday...

Onsite IT Support Services for SME’s

Onsite IT Support Services for SME’s

What is Onsite IT Support? Within our IT Support contracts we offer on-site IT support. We like to get to know our clients and their offices meaning when problems do occur we know where to go to...

Coronavirus information

Coronavirus information

Portal Coronavirus Update 14/05/2020 First and foremost Portal hope all our customers are safe and well as we approach week 8 of the lockdown. During the last 8 weeks Portal continues to support our...

Hybrid Cloud Solutions For SME’s

Hybrid Cloud Solutions For SME’s

What is a Hybrid Cloud Solution Hybrid Cloud is a cloud computing environment that makes use of a mix of different computing services. A Hybrid Cloud is formed when two of these computing services...

Outsourcing IT Support (When, Why and How)

Outsourcing IT Support (When, Why and How)

Are you considering investing in outsourced IT support? Why would companies choose to outsource their IT support services? The blog below contains the discussion held by the Portal Technologies team...

Support for Windows 7 is Coming to an End

Support for Windows 7 is Coming to an End

On 14th January 2020 Microsoft will no longer provide support or security updates for PCs running on Windows 7. Windows 7 will still operate but you will stop receiving security and feature updates...

Why you should be using Office 365 in your business

Why you should be using Office 365 in your business

The Office 365 website proudly boasts “work anywhere, anytime, on any device. Office 365 is ready when you are”, and we’ve found they’re not wrong. Office 365 is a reliable and flexible cloud-based...

What is Social Engineering?

What is Social Engineering?

What is Social Engineering and how does it intrude on your business? We have spoken a lot about social engineering in our recent blogs but as it is now at the forefront of cyber-attacks we thought...

Portal Technologies Are Doing The Kilt Walk

Portal Technologies Are Doing The Kilt Walk

Portal Technologies Are Doing the Kilt Walk Portal Technologies are taking on the Mighty Stride Kilt walk to raise money for a local Forth Valley charity – Scottish Families affected by Drugs and...