Avoid Heartbreak: Invest in Solid Data Backup Solutions

By Tom McDonald | Dec 16, 2014 10:16:00 AM

You were working on that massive project for a major client. It had taken you the whole day to put it together, research the aspects of it, and put it into a professional, but fancy format.

Then the program crashes. For no reason at all, it just forgets all the work you did between your last save, which was a few hours ago. You cross your fingers and toes that the recovery aspect of the program works, but there is never a guarantee.

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5 Reasons Businesses Are Choosing Cloud Services

By Tom McDonald | Dec 2, 2014 10:24:00 AM

Businesses of all sizes are using cloud services for similar reasons—to save money, to gain access to computing power, and to relieve some of the burden on their staff.  

Here are 5 reasons why businesses just like yours are choosing Cloud Services: 

1. Cloud Solutions offer better insight - With cloud, a small business has greater flexibility and can leverage tools they never had access to before, such as leveraging analytics and big data to help target customers and uncover opportunities. Cloud also makes it much easier for the SMB to share data across applications and increase mobile access. 

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IT Support: When DIY Becomes DOA

By Tom McDonald | Nov 18, 2014 10:51:00 AM

Most entrepreneurs don’t start a business because they love to monkey around with IT Support.

And while there are some small businesses proprietors who are more intimate with technology, most business owners see technology as a “can’t live with it, can’t live without it” necessity that just keeps getting more and more costly.

When those costs start taking chomps out of profits, small business owners must decide whether to call in a professional for an assessment or try and get things under control with an in-house team.

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Why Using a Desktop PC as a Server is a Bad Idea

By Tom McDonald | Oct 28, 2014 10:37:00 AM

Small businesses have to make a number of difficult decisions when it comes to investing in their technology.

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Believe it or Not, a Single Physical Server is Enough

By Tom McDonald | Oct 15, 2014 10:49:00 AM

The days of needing multiple physical servers that fulfill different functions are slowly dwindling—for the better.

Virtualization has completely changed what a single physical server can accomplish. A single server can be used to run multiple virtual servers to cut down excessive energy expenditures, management complexity, and CapEX and OpEX overhead.

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