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The Nine Leading Causes of PC Slowdown

iolo technologies is a 12-year-old privately-owned PC tune-up company. It was founded by Noah Rowles who got tired of fixing all his neighbors’ computers and wanted to create a program that’d make it easier for less computer-savvy users to fix their own PCs and lighten the load on the neighborhood geeks. System Mechanic, iolo’s flagship [...]

5 Advantages Of A Cloud Utility Architecture For Younger, Fast-Growing Companies

This is a guest post by Yehuda Cagen from Xvand Technology Corporation Until recently, many of today’s business executives saw IT as a financial sinkhole rather than as a profit center. As a result, many have opted with what, at first glance, seemed like the least expensive option. Today, many business leaders recognize that [...]

The New Gen-Y Workforce Is Ready For More Interactive Self-Service Scheduling

This is a guest post from Anthony Rinella at Skedx.com News Alert! The future is here! What was once science fiction is now part of our everyday life, and what we think of as hot technology today, will soon be collecting dust in our closets a few months from now. As a society we [...]

Keeping Your Server Room Cooled for Performance

This is a guest article by Stephanie Schoch. Stephanie is an associate at an e-commerce company specializing in heating and cooling appliances. Air-n-Water.com is located in Orange County, California. Company growth is usually accompanied increasingly high IT requirements; many rapidly expanding companies find that they need to invest in a dedicated server room. A server [...]

7 Tips To Build Your Server Room With Future Growth In Mind

Mark Dryer has been the founding president of MDL Technology since 2003. Dryer has been an IT professional for 13 years and has a number of certifications including a Bachelor of Science in Accounting, MCSE, CNE, CNA, MCP, MCDBA, MS Dynamics Installation Specialist, VSP, VTSP and is currently working toward his VCP. MDL Technology, LLC [...]

Best-Practices and Insider Tips For Closing More Sales Using Web-Based Video Collaboration

VeriShow is an app-based corporate support platform created by HBR Labs LLC. HBR Labs is a technology company that began its entry into web collaboration technologies with LiveMDExpert, a web tool where users and healthcare experts can connect to discuss health-related information. As an app-based collaborative tool, it provides e-commerce websites (such as jewelry stores, [...]

What Are The Business Benefits Of Mac Servers In The Datacenter?

Today, I’ll be interviewing Ben Greisler, owner and founder of Kadimac Corp. Kadimac is Ben’s second technologies company. His first was founded back in 1999 after spending 8 years in the publishing field. The first company was Mac oriented also, but he joined another firm to become their CTO. He decided to leave that company [...]

How Your Office Design Affects Your Social Media Presence And Employee Recruitment

WOVOX.com lets people show workplaces the way they really are through pictures, videos and reviews. It gives potential customers, partners and job seekers an authentic impression of the companies they´re interested in. They used to be a Dutch web design agency. Their new team members got really excited about working with us when shown pictures [...]

Social Media and Public Relations Needs To Be Part Of Your Disaster Planning Strategy

In 2004, a video began circulating around the Internet of a man opening a Kryptonite bike lock with a Bic pen. Within a matter of hours, the company’s reputation had been severely damaged. (Since then, the company has altered the design of their locks to resolve this problem. And they’re also much savvier about how [...]

Agile Development: Making Collaborative and Adaptive Techniques Enterprise-Ready

By Stanislav Kalkanov, Quality Center Head, Luxoft Agile development is a term first introduced in 2001 after a group of prestigious software developers met to discuss lightweight development methods. On the tenth anniversary of the term’s official introduction, Agile’s focus on team collaboration and adaptive processes has enabled its rapid adoption in small to mid-sized [...]

Real-World Advice For Building Your First Server Room

Michael Figueroa is a Senior Parner at Infusion Points, an Enterprise Security consulting firm. He’s agreed to sit down with me and share his advice – based on his years of experience in the field – on how to plan an build your first server room. Before you start thinking about taking the DIY approach [...]

HUGE List of Amazing Things You Didn’t Know Google Docs Could Do

I recently had a chance to speak with the team at Google Docs, and asked them if they had any “insider tips” that I could share with my readers. Their response was much more than I could have ever hoped for. Who knew you could do so much with these free tools? In Google documents [...]

Is Retail Ready for Mobile Tablet POS Systems and Cloud-Based Cash Registers?

In mid 2009, VendHQ started to build a new breed of point-of-sale that was simple to set up, easy to use, scalable and cost effective. They wanted to make full use of the latest Internet technology to make a really smart system that retailers would love to use. Today, I’ll be interviewing Vaughan Rowsell, who [...]

Too Many Web Design Projects Fail Because Companies Don’t Know How To Work With Their Designers

This is a guest post from Kari Scott and Michael Wilson, who are co-partners of Mad Dancer Media. They’ve design sites for Entertainement Industry legends such as Shania Twain, Dolly Parton and the Red Hot Chili Peppers We have many clients who have expressed displeasure with designers they have worked with in the past. The [...]

The Difference Between Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

These days, there’s a lot of talk about Disaster Recovery and Business continuity planning. Although most of these discussions tend to group the 2 terms together as a single “BC/DR Planning” unit, it’s important to understand that these are – in fact – 2 very different and separate processes. In order to illustrate this better, [...]

Top 24 Best Hosted Exchange and Managed Exchange Provider Reviews

Here are my 24 Top Choices for hosted exchange providers. In no particular order. Databarracks – Secure, enterprise standard Hosted Exchange services provided from ex-military nuclear bunkers with great support. Apptix – Helping business reduce costs while communicating more efficiently. MailStreet and ASP One – 2 other well-known Hosted Exchange provider – are now both [...]

9 Ways You Can Ensure Maximum System Availability And Resiliency By Assigning A “Downtime Watchdog”

In just 2 or 3 decades, business has evolved from daily batch processing to real-time 24 hour computing. Today’s modern IT departments can no longer afford to be down for even a few minutes. That’s why every IT support team should have one person assigned the role of Downtime Watchdog. This person’s role will include [...]

Virtual Servers Are On The Verge of Outnumbering Physical Servers

Enterasys Networks, a Siemens Enterprise Communications Company, is a premier global provider of wired and wireless network infrastructure and security solutions. With roots back to their founding as Cabletron in 1983 their solutions enable organizations to drive down IT costs while improving business productivity and efficiency through a unique combination of automation, visibility and control [...]

7 Reasons You Should Come Join Me on LinkedIn

Now that the blog has hit somewhat of a critical mass, I’d like to start building a closer relationship with my readers. Those of you who’ve emailed me in the past may have received a LinkedIn invitation from me recently. If not, you can go directly to my LinkedIn profile here. Let’s take this site [...]

An Eye-Opening Look How Privacy Has Changed In The Past Decade

This video has been around a bit, but I just though I’d put it here for those who haven’t seen it yet. Very interesting.

How Mobile Computing Will Force Enterprises To Rethink Their Encryption Policies And Practices

The WikiLeaks debacle may have polarized many on the political front in terms of the value of the information being leaked to the media. But it has also brought to light the issue of protecting the privacy of enterprise communications in whatever e-form they might appear. While enterprises are well aware of the risks associated [...]

4 Business IT Risks Of Social Media Sites Like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and others

Disclosure and Retention Compliance Violations Much like emails, memos or contracts, all of the social media activity produced by your company and its employees can be considered to be business communications documents. This means that you might be required to disclose them later on in court. Current trends show that this will only grow in [...]

The Healthcare Industry Is Going Paperless And Mobile To Serve Patients Better – What Does This Mean For Your Privacy?

SAFE-BioPharma is the industry IT standard developed to transition he biopharmaceutical and healthcare communities to paperless environments. The SAFE-BioPharma standard is used to verify and manage digital identities involved in electronic transactions and to apply digital signatures to electronic documents. SAFE-BioPharma was developed by a consortium of biopharmaceutical and related companies with participation from the [...]

Will Tape Storage Make A Datacenter Comeback This Year? What The Experts Have To Say Might Surprise You

It’s that time of year where lots of experts reflect on the changes in the previous twelve months and examine these trends to predict what’s to come. I expect to see the following major and minor revolutions in tape, disk and cloud storage in 2011. For the first time in years, tape will be reclaiming [...]

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