Apex Technology Blog

Charlotte, NC – July 17, 2025 – Apex Technology, a leading provider of managed IT and cybersecurity solutions, is proud to announce its ranking as #140 on the Charlotte Business Journal’s 2025 list of the Largest Private Companies, based on revenue performance. 

This annual list, which includes 253 of the highest-performing private firms in the region, highlights companies that are driving economic growth, innovation, and workforce development across Charlotte and the surrounding areas.

As necessary as it is, business technology tends to be expensive, especially when things go wrong. Historically, these costs took the form of capital expenditures, which meant they were inherently expensive and unpredictable by nature.

This is precisely why it is so important to shift your business IT to an operating expense. Let’s explore why this is the case and how to implement this change.

In our pockets, purses, and palms, smartphones have become extensions of ourselves; the ultimate personal technology. We use our phones for communication, entertainment, and countless daily tasks. The problem is, the price of these new phones are going up and up and we aren’t really seeing all that much new value out of them. It lends you to ask the question whether or not we are truly getting the most value out of these powerful devices? It also lends us to ask what more can manufacturers do to deliver value that’s worth the price that today’s flagship devices command.

Ransomware has emerged as one of the most dangerous modern threats to businesses, and when you consider just what’s at stake with a ransomware infection, you’ll realize we’re not exaggerating. The worst variants of ransomware will attempt to extort you through any means necessary, and when you don’t give in so easily, they’ll pull out the big guns: double and triple extortion.

How long has your workstation been in use? How long does it take to boot up, to access your user profile, to load the documents you need to work on?

It can be extremely tempting to put off any investment into new hardware… after all, it still works, doesn’t it? Well, depending on your answers to the above questions, it might not. Don’t fall into the classic trap of relying on hardware that is simply too old to support your needs. It’s more expensive than you’d think.