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Don’t Believe that Mobile Computing Has the Power to Change Everything? Just Look at Its Impact in the Travel Industry
The whole world is going mobile. The Nielsen group predicts that smart phone sales will outpace regular mobile phone sales in 2011, driving an insatiable appetite for mobile offerings that let users do more right in the palm of their hands. So now is the time to get on board with rolling out IT services [...]
Full StoryTape is Still Great
When asked recently where I didn’t agree with the status quo in IT, it came to me almost instantly: tape. It seems that tape has many more enemies than friends these days, but it still has its place and I’m tired of hearing “do you still use tapes in your business? Quit wasting your time [...]
Full StoryWhich Programming Language Is Best? (Important Career Advice For Programmers and Developers)
Are you having trouble converting social media leads into paying customers? CoupSmart is an incredibly clever tool that lets you use coupon marketing with the “Insider’s Club” that is your social media contact list. In addition to being the current CTO of CoupSmart, Troy Davis is an experienced developer with a long list of successes [...]
Full StoryThe Top 7 IT Consultants and Tech Support Companies in EVERY STATE!
Finding new clients is a constant uphill struggle for IT service providers. Every hour you spend knocking on doors or making cold calls is an hour is a lost billable hour that you’ll never get back. And likewise, business owners have a hard time finding skilled, trustworthy IT service providers who can fix their tech [...]
Full StoryTop 21 Hosted SaaS CRM Reviews
CRM is a hot topic at the moment. As business marketing has made a mass exodus to the web over the past few years, proper tracking and statistics are now absolutely essential to the marketing of any organization. Shooting from the hip is no longer enough. After much research and debate, I’ve finally put together [...]
Full StoryFrequently Asked Thin Computing Questions (FAQ)
GoVirtual® is the industry leading provider of VMware training videos and VMware training courseware books and educational materials. Their VMware training products and services are some of the highest quality and most comprehensive available today. Thin client computing within virtualized environments is one of their training specialties and is something they’ve done recent consulting projects [...]
Full StoryDr. Robert Gehl Talks About The Future Of Anonymity, Net Neutrality And Web 2.0
Can you tell my readers about your background and your current role at U of Utah? I understand that you did your doctoral work on Web 2.0. Can you tell me a bit about this? At Utah, I am a professor of new media in the Department of Communication, and I work in two areas. [...]
Full StoryA First-Person Insider’s Perspective On Domain Seizures And The Future of European Online Regulation
BlacKnight Solutions is Ireland’s largest hosting company and domain registrar. They provide domain registration and a comprehensive range of website hosting solutions to clients all over the world. Clients range from hobbyists through small business to multinationals. Today, I’ll be interviewing BlacKnight founder Michele Neylon. How has the domain name business changed over the past [...]
Full StoryTop 24 Web Analytics Software Packages
It’s often been said that fifty percent of your marketing efforts are wasted. The problem is that you never know which fifty percent it is. But one of the great things about doing business in the digital age is that everything can now be measured. With the right web analytics system in place, you can [...]
Full StoryNew FREE IT Magazines and Whitepapers Added!
As you might have noticed, we’ve just updated the site with a new section. The new IT RESOURCES page is full of Information Technology whitepapers and magazines. And everything is FREE. Go ahead and browse around. You’re sure to find something of interest!
Full StoryHow To Buy a Used Laptop: 5 Key Tips
With computer manufactures releasing new and innovative models every 6 months, many consumers can still get a powerful used laptop at an affordable price. When looking to purchase a used laptop computer many factors come into play that will impact your purchasing decision. I have compiled my 5 top tips for making sure you get [...]
Full StoryHow Network Team Collaboration Can Help Companies Prevent Miscommunication and Enforce Adherance To Deadlines
LumoFlow started around four years ago when social media was still pretty unknown within enterprises. During those days you had to build your enterprise collaboration environment from process centric project management and task tracking systems together with wikis, discussion forums and other communication platforms. Years passed and new social collaboration solutions came to the market, [...]
Full StoryTablet, Laptop or Desktop. How do you pick the one that’s right for you?
When it comes to making your next computer purchasing decision, you’ll most likely find yourself asking which is right for you. A laptop, a tablet, or a desktop computer? Before you can make this decision, there are a number of questions you must ask. The first and most important question will be “What will I [...]
Full StoryAn insider’s perspective on the IPV4/IPV6 crisis
For more than 20 years, Allied Telesis has been a leading provider of networking infrastructure. Today the Company enables delivery of data, voice, and video services to a variety of clients globally. The origins Allied Telesis can be traced back to the Government Research Organization that first connected New Zealand to the early Internet. Unable [...]
Full Story6 Ways That Business Analytics and Business Intelligence Can Help Your Business
Price Your Products For Maximum Profit: Pricing is one of the most critical, and least understood areas of any business. Pricing too low can destroy your brand and increase financial risks, pricing too high can lead to unhappy customers and lost sales opportunities, and fluctuating prices can create a bad reputation and confusion. Instead of [...]
Full Story5 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 IT [...]
Full Story7 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 [...]
Full StoryWhat 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 [...]
Full StoryHUGE 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 [...]
Full StoryThe 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, [...]
Full StoryTop 23 Best Hosted Exchange and Managed Exchange Provider Reviews
Here are my 23 Top Choices for hosted exchange providers. In no particular order. Apptix – Helping business reduce costs while communicating more efficiently. MailStreet and ASP One – 2 other well-known Hosted Exchange provider – are now both part of Apptix. 123Together.com – Exchange hosting for companies where email availability is mission-critical. Exchange My [...]
Full Story4 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 [...]
Full StoryWill 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 [...]
Full Story5 Most Explosive IT Trends That Will Forever Change Business Computing in 2011
This is a guest post from Ennio Carboni. He is president of Ipswitch Inc.’s Network Management Division, creator of WhatsUp Gold IT management solutions. He is based at Ipswitch’s headquarters in Lexington, Mass. I spend a couple of hours each Thursday cold-calling customers and asking about their technology and people experience with our organization. It [...]
Full Story10 Expert Predictions For Business Computing and Enterprise IT Trends in 2011
Philip Lieberman, president of Lieberman Software In-house and internal threats will be a big element of 2011 as organizations begin to understand that anti-virus/malware/phishing software is no longer effective. There will be an epiphany that critical infrastructure is under constant attack and that there is a serious need to implement more comprehensive security software, security [...]
Full Story4 Biggest Risks and Problems of Spam – How Spam Is Costing Your Business
As far as I’m concerned, SPAM is theft. Period. In order to save money, a company or individual is stealing resources from you in order to pay for their marketing and communications. And for businesses, spam can carry a lot of risks and costs: Viruses The best-known viruses are the ones who destroy their hosts, [...]
Full StoryInterview with Attorney Benjamin Wright about Wikileaks and Corporate Privacy Leaks
Benjamin Wright is an attorney based in Dallas, Texas. A graduate of the law school at Georgetown University, he has been practicing law since 1984. Since 1988, he has focused on technology law, including privacy, e-commerce, data security, cyber investigations and e-records management. On these topics, he advises organizations around the world (corporations, governments, non-profits). [...]
Full Story16 Benefits Of Thin Client Computing
The difference between “thin client” and “fat client” computing is fairly simple to understand. In a traditional “fat-client” computing environment, all of the programs are stored on a local machine – such as a desktop or laptop – and files are stored on a central server drive. Whenever someone wants to work with a file, [...]
Full Story17 Questions To Ask When Evaluating Hosted Microsoft (MS) Exchange Providers
Internal Questions Is email management an essential part of your core business? If not, outsourcing might be beneficial. When you need to migrate to the next version of MS Exchange, what costs will you have to incur? Do you already have the hardware and trained personnel to handle th e unique backup and restore requirements [...]
Full StoryLTSP – Linux Terminal Server Project – Diskless Thin Clients
Thin clients are nothing new. The very first networked machines relied on thin clients that were linked up to remote mainframe systems. This was the only practical way to make computing accessible. But as desktop systems became more accessible, this type of thin client model went out of style. The topology of a Thin Client [...]
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