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Weekly Dose of Humor: Use It or Lose It

Posted on May 23, 2013
Use it or lose it

Each Thursday we like to bring you a weekly dose of humor!   Keeping track of monthly airtime minutes and data usage on our cell phone contracts  has become a sport in and of itself.  This week Randy Glasbergen offers us a chuckle on this very topic!  We bet this dearly departed gentleman wishes he [...]

Infographic: Can’t Stop the Data

Posted on May 22, 2013
Can't Stop Data

Just like teaching a young child that there is no ‘last number,’ we are reaching new highs of data storage size with each passing year.  Terabytes, Petabytes, Zettabytes, oh my! But since we can’t stop the data from being produced … we need to find a way to store it all.  Enter cloud storage – [...]

5 Cloud Based Business Apps for iPad

Posted on May 21, 2013
iPad apps

Keeping your business at top performance while you are away from your physical desk is no longer an issue. Cloud-based apps for the iPad offer on demand performance and capabilities. Stay organized and productive no matter where you are working, using these five cloud-based business apps. Quickoffice Pro HD Word Processor This is a premium [...]

Monitoring as a Service (MaaS)

Posted on May 20, 2013
Monitoring-as-a-Service

Monitoring-as-a-Service (MaaS) has caught on with a number of enterprises as the popularity of cloud applications increases. As a flood of new applications continues to make its way through the production pipeline, IT professionals find themselves in need of a flexible set of IT monitoring tools that are easy to deploy and capable of running [...]

Customer Relationship Management

Posted on May 17, 2013
CRM

Customer Relationships Management (CRM), once handled by mail and telephone, has made dramatic changes with the ongoing advancement of technologies in the information age. The editors of CRM Magazine describe CRM as a “company-wide business strategy designed to reduce costs and increase profitability by solidifying customer satisfaction, loyalty, and advocacy.” Companies achieve this by bringing information together [...]

Weekly Dose of Humor: Homework

Posted on May 16, 2013
Weekly Dose of Humor: Homework

Each Thursday we like to bring you a weekly dose of humor!  This week, we are checking in with the modern classroom.  Since students primarily communicate via text message these days (or so it seems), the smart teacher knows to play the homework game their way.  Gone are the days when ‘the dog ate my [...]

Infographic: Identity Theft

Posted on May 15, 2013
ID Theft

Here’s a topic no one likes to think about: Identity Theft.  There are one of two reasons we don’t like to think about it: 1. You have been the victim of identity theft and have spent days and weeks and months of your life trying to undo the damage made by some lowlife who stole [...]