Turn One Studio: Long Island Business & Leadership Podcast · Eliud Custodio

Pete and “Little” Pete Flyntz (FZC Consultants) on IT Planning, Cybersecurity, and Cloud vs On-Prem

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The biggest vulnerability in IT is still people clicking on bogus emails.

Pete and "Little" Pete Flyntz join Elid Custodio for a practical talk about FZC Consultants. The company has been in business for 40 years and works with clients like People's United Bank, car dealers, insurance companies, and dentists. The opening joke is that they are not a grocery store. They are a family owned and run computer consulting company, and that family setup shapes the business. Pete says his father started the company with him and his brother. He also says his greatest pleasure is seeing his son work with him and thinking about retirement while the next generation keeps it going. The conversation briefly looks back to Honeywell mainframes and green screen terminals. That history gives the rest of the discussion some useful context. Elid asks what smaller companies actually need from outside IT help. The guests explain that some businesses only need a couple of visits a month. For a smaller company that is still growing, they say, that can be enough. The tone stays calm and practical throughout. Elid keeps pushing for the owner facing version of each answer. He asks about the common mistakes business owners make when they do not know what they do not know. Pete and Little Pete describe the "oh boy" moments they see when they walk into a network and can tell right away something is off. They say tearing everything down is rarely the cost effective answer. Hardware is one of their clearest examples, because a cheap laptop and a better built machine are not the same thing. A workstation built correctly, they argue, has a real chance of lasting four or five years. That leads back to planning and the broader setup choices around it. By the end, the shop comes across as engineer heavy, hands on, and always looking for the next fix.

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Practical IT talk for people managing a small companys technology.

Pete and Little Pete turn IT into a grounded look at what keeps a business running. They describe FZC Consultants as a family-owned computer consulting company that has been in business for 40 years, and they trace the work from green-screen mainframes to the support smaller…

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