I ran across an article from TechRepublic.com titled, “10 Problems with Outsourcing IT” by Jack Wallen. I have copied some excerpts below to try to put a more realistic perspective on the article. Jack Wallen comments are in italics and my comments are in bold. The economy has hit everyone hard. Many companies have [...]
All of the latest predictions have Hurricane Irene slamming in to the SC coast by the weekend. Is your business ready? Click here to download a Hurricane Preparedness Checklist As we enter the peak of hurricane season, meteorologists are updating their forecasts, now predicting seven named storms (five to reach hurricane strength) in the next [...]
People who study technological advances and world-changing innovations typically agree on one point: nothing revolutionary comes out of the blue. New ideas and technologies spend a long time hiding in plain sight before they suddenly change the world as we know it. Moreover, the agents of radical change are often already familiar to us. Consider [...]
Can the cloud be trusted? Yes, but you still have to do your homework! The public cloud represents a utility model of computing: you pay for what you use, scaling up or down as needed, without having to worry about back-end stuff like installing updates and keeping server racks cool. But giving up the burdens [...]
A bedrock element of IT security involves granting and restricting access. When we think of access, we generally think of user names, PINs, and passwords — the mainstays of identity authentication in the information age. We use them all the time throughout the course of the day: accessing our devices, networks, local applications, and cloud [...]
I found this article over at HealthCare IT news. Although the aritcle talks mostly about hospitals and their decisions regarding the cloud or a data center, I think the article applies to nearly all types of ”data intensive” businesses (doctors, attorneys, CPAs, etc). We help our clients with these types of decisions when we engage with our [...]
With hurricane season a mere 20 days away, it is time to prepare for what is predicted to be an active season. Although the tropics are quiet now, meteorologists from Weather Services International (a Weather Channel company), have predicted 15 named storms, 8 hurricanes and 4 major hurricanes this year. Click here for WSI’s 2011 [...]
While there is relief that Osama Bin Laden has been eliminated, the threat of terrorism in the United States and abroad still remains high. Although Bin Laden was the symbolic leader of Al Qaeda, there is no doubt attacks will continue to be carried out by others. As stated by President Obama, “We must — [...]
I want to try to articulate the differences between staying in your current “break/fix” computer support model and moving to a proactive managed service like EDDSA.
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