With IT’s ever-changing and ever-evolving demands, it’s important that businesses, especially those with fewer resources, be able to keep themselves up to date – and there’s no better, more efficient, and more cost-effective solution than Managed Services.
Many large businesses prefer the use of Managed Services to meet their IT needs, but many smaller organizations continue [...]
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5 Benefits of Managed Services
December 27th, 2011 · No Comments · Managed Services
Big Business IT at a Small Business Price
March 14th, 2011 · No Comments · Dallas Data Center, Managed Hosting, Managed Services
Peace of mind, security, and superior IT are now made available not just for huge enterprises, but for small to medium-sized businesses as well. Using Managed Services, you can enjoy the same benefits big companies have without it costing an arm and a leg.
Like a lot of small to medium-sized businesses these days, you perhaps [...]
Tags: Business Continuity·business solutions·IT·Managed Services
National Cyber Security Awareness Campaign Challenge a Huge Success
November 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Business Continuity, Dallas Data Center, Data Centers, Firewalls, Managed Services, Security, Uncategorized
The United States Homeland Security Department’s National Cyber Security Awareness Campaign Challenge was a huge success, with more than 80 security proposals submitted with the goal of increasing awareness regarding threats to cyber security.
Out of the over 80 submitted entries, seven were chosen to receive awards at a ceremony at the White House recently. One [...]
Tags: Cyber Security·IT
Get Efficient Results Using Managed IT Services
October 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Cloud, Colocation, Dallas Data Center, Dedicated Servers, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Security, Servers, Storage, Uncategorized, Virtualization
Utilizing IT Managed Services allows entrepreneurs to concentrate on their company’s core competencies, resulting in an increase in productivity which translates to increased revenue.
The term Managed Services is defined as “the practice of transferring day-to-day related management responsibility as a strategic method for improved effective and efficient operations”. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managed_services) While large corporations regularly choose this [...]
Tags: IT·IT Managed Services·Managed Hosting·Managed Services
Tips for Saving Printing Costs
October 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Dallas Data Center, Green IT, Managed Services, Uncategorized
Although this blog is not necessarily datacenter specific, we are always interested in ideas that help to conserve our environment so thought we’d pass it along.
Since paper is relatively inexpensive, especially when compared to the price of ink, you may think more about conserving ink. But conserving paper too is great for the environment – [...]
Managing your rack…
October 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Colocation, Dallas Data Center, Data Centers, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Servers, Uncategorized
For those of you who work daily in server rooms and data centers, you’ve probably seen how messy your rack can become. Cables start growing additional branches and servers and network gear seem to get lost in the jungle. This is especially problematic if you haven’t memorized the exact rack location of every server you [...]
Changing Windows 7 Default File Location
September 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Microsoft
When saving a file in Windows 7 you can select a library to save it in – but because libraries aren’t real locations, the file is stored to the defined save folder such as My Documents or Public Documents. However, you can reset the properties of the folder to suit your needs.
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Keeping Up With Your Disaster Recovery Documentation
September 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Dallas Data Center, Disaster Recovery, Managed Services, Security
Documentation…it should be a four letter word. No engineer wants to hear it. Give me firewalls to configure, servers to prep, virtual machines to spin up, even problems, anything but DOCUMENTATION. I don’t know what it is about this time of the year, but it seems like there is a lot of documentation going on [...]
Tags: Disaster Recovery·Information Technology·IT·Managed Services
How Managed Services Can Help You Weather the Recession
June 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Managed Services, Security
Industry analyst IDC predicts that the global economic recession will have a dramatic impact on small and mid-sized companies, but that doesn’t means these companies will stop spending on information technology (IT).
“Small and mid-sized businesses…will be increasingly interested in the productivity gains made possible by advanced technology,” said Raymond Boggs, vice president of SMB research [...]
Tags: Backup·Best-of-breed Technologies·Business Contunity·Economic Recession·IDC·Information Technology·IT·Managed Services·Mobile Communication Solutions·Online Resources·Security·Video Conferencing
Business Continuity Planning: Your Business May Depend on It
March 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Business Continuity, Managed Services, Security
With the start of a new year, businesses commonly implement changes and launch new initiatives that have ramifications for your IT environment. Ignore them at your own peril.
Chief among your IT considerations should be a Business Continuity Plan, or BCP, which will allow your business to resume normal operations in the event of a significant [...]
Tags: BCP·Business Continuity·Business Continuity Planning·IT·Managed Services·Security
Managing Your IT Implementations
March 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Business Continuity, Cloud Computing, Colocation, Consolidation, Disaster Recovery, Firewalls, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Storage, Virtualization
Technology isn’t a one size fits all situation. Seems the more we try to fit our environment into a box, the more expensive the box becomes. There are ways to avoid this, IT consultants and Project managers. Both of these skill sets are necessary to have a successful IT implementation.
IT consultants can offer valuable insight [...]
Tags: Implementations·IT·Management·Project