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Deciding to move user operations off of local desktop workstations and onto a server is often the first major step within a company’s IT advancement. Servers offer three major advantages over desktops for IT professionals: Ease of Management – Instead of making changes on one user machine at a time, servers allow managers to make […]

The most “tech neglected” area of your business is the Human Resources department. (No, they didn’t leak that to us. We work with a lot of companies, and we’ve noticed a trend.) Here’s how it goes in your office. First, your sales people get their iPads. Then your marketing team get their Adobe suite upgrades. […]

In early April, online tech outlets began reporting about Heartbleed, a new online threat to password security. In the subsequent weeks many companies warned users to change their passwords, and news outlets picked up the story in an attempt to warn Internet travelers of the dangers Heartbleed could pose. If you are an IT professional, […]

Remember the last time you left work at 5 and didn’t check your email (or tweak that presentation) one last time? We can’t either. As our world becomes more connected and employees carry more devices than ever, the separation between work and home is growing blurred. Today, your employees expect to be able to work […]

Why did you start your business? Unless you own an IT company, it probably wasn’t to manage your own data center. A shoe store sells shoes, a pizza restaurant makes pizza, and you’d rather do what you got in business to do than worry about IT issues. But here you are – so let’s talk. […]

The results are in from InformationWeek’s 2013 State of the Data Center Survey. Editor Kurt Marko provided his analysis of the results: “Our take is that [CIOs] have a bad case of the paradox of choice: Faced with myriad alternatives — private data centers, leased wholesale space, collocated facilities, managed infrastructure services, virtual private clouds, […]

Whether you have been selling from a retail storefront or mail order catalog for years, or are opening a new business online-only, implementing e-commerce functionality for your website should be a consideration. More and more shopping is being done online, and not just for consumers – business are getting in on the action, too. But […]

“Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success. “ -Pablo Picasso To succeed in the world of business, you must have a number of plans. You need a business plan to […]

Not all data centers are the same, each one has strengths and weaknesses that you should consider when selecting a data center. Outsourcing colocation services can save your company money, but only if you choose a data center that matches your infrastructure needs. 1. Security When you are considering storing an expensive piece of hardware […]

We are privileged to work with some great providers on a daily basis, and we love to tell everyone we can about them. This week, though, one of those partners returned the favor: Dell named Dynamic Quest “Preferred Partner of the Year” at Dell World 2012 in Austin, Texas on Tuesday, December 11. Many of […]