information technology

Save your business with data backup

February 8, 2013

What would you do if the computer system storing your customer records or sales information suffered a hard drive failure or other catastrophic event that caused it to lose all of its stored data? Would your business be able to continue operating? Could you continue to market, advertise and fulfill orders? With the growing value [...]

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Time for a technology tune-up?

January 11, 2013

The beginning of a new year is always a good time to devote a little bit of thought to how you want to improve your business and productivity technology in the months ahead. You don’t really need to come up with a set of Technology New Year’s Resolutions, mainly because resolutions are, by rule, made [...]

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Giving cloud services a black eye

July 18, 2012

In a post last week, I mentioned that sometimes something good accidentally happens as a result of the dark machinations of the technology industry’s various would-be Evil Overlords. In the interest of fairness, this week I’m going to point out that more often than not, when the Evil Overlords get involved in the affairs of [...]

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Think Before You Re-Invent the Wheel

March 1, 2012
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Back in the Internet’s version of the Age of Steam — around 2002 — retail giant Walmart (which was still officially “Wal Mart” at the time) made a bold move to insource all of its Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) functions. EDI is a critical behind-the-scenes operation that allows huge retail chains to manage their supply [...]

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Does your business depend on "not half bad" protection?

April 27, 2010

Depending on the sources you read or the people you listen to, the humble PCs that help power your business are either the handiest tools invented since the crescent wrench or a sinister cluster of ticking time bombs waiting for just the right moment to blast all of your important business data to smithereens. While [...]

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Time to consider a move to Windows 7

April 13, 2010

If you haven’t yet considered upgrading your business’ computers to the Windows 7 operating system,  this just might be a good time to give it some thought. Windows 7 offers some significant improvements over both Windows XP and Windows Vista that will make the change worth the effort for most business users – and home [...]

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Bag your limit of dust bunnies

February 23, 2010

Even here in usually-balmy Florida, winter means cooler, less humid weather. For folks who work with computer systems every day, the drier air can mean only one thing. Dust bunnies.

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