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Do the Cloud’s benefits outweigh the costs when it comes to IT support?
There is a drive to streamline everything, including all IT infrastructures. The logic behind this drive is that, since everybody is essentially doing the same things, it makes sense to have everyone adopt the same IT platform.
Is Windows 8 a pointless upgrade?
Doing IT consulting in Chicago for a number of years, I can see where this version is going: that Windows 8 is one of those unwelcome upgrades—like Windows Vista or Windows Me—that bring more grief and confusion than benefits.
Offsite File Servers Make IT Consulting Easy
One feature many clients are looking for, especially real-estate and law firms, is a secure and easy way to share documents with external users, such as partners, clients, and vendors. For the primary user, it’s also convenient to be able to access files any time you’re away from the office.
Hybrid infrastructure is starting to make sense
Hybrid infrastructure with cloud and Small Business Server Essentials is starting to make sense
IT consulting may consider an Exchange hosted model?
Hosted Exchange also allows you to share calendars and contacts, and on top of your basic Exchange benefits, you get other nice add-ons.
Benefits to Google Apps as your IT service
If you are used to Outlook, Google Apps give you an Outlook Sync application that wizards you through to setup.
IT infrastructure based on Google Apps
A popular solution for small business owners in Chicago is to use Google Apps as their main email provider. There are great benefits to this—but also a few pesky irritations that you should be aware of.
IT Services from the Cloud: Who benefits?
Cloud technology can provide companies with powerful tools to get up and running.
When will Cloud technology mature?
All the talk about Cloud technology is great, and things are definitely headed in that direction. But only much faster Internet speeds will make saving data in the Cloud
Is Cloud technology just an extreme IT makeover?
To most non-technical people, it probably seems that there is a technological revolution underway and they need to get on board or else miss out. But is this Cloud revolution really anything new?