Small business

E-mail Archiving Stupidity

James Gaskin — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:19:01 -0500

I live in the Dallas area, but not in the city of Dallas. That means my children were outside the horribly mis-managed Dallas schools, but we're still under the thumbs of idiotic Dallas County officials. How idiotic? How about this recent story, “E-mail Deletion Plan Criticized,” about officials wanting to delete e-mail after 90 days. Have none of them heard of all the new regulations about e-mail archiving?

Disk Storage Drops to Dime per Gigabyte

James Gaskin — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:06:18 -0500

Combining constantly dropping hard disk storage pricing with the holiday desperation on the part of retailers everywhere gave me a sign I've been anticipating: a 1TB (yes, one terabyte, or 1,000 gigabytes) hard disk drive with a $100 or less price tag. I saw an ad for a 1TB Samsung hard disk for $99.

PC Repair Services: Provide Stellar Support for Your Clients

ComputerConsultingKit — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:33:21 -0500

Most small businesses are overwhelmed by finding professional PC repair services to help them manage their technology. So how can you understand their needs and concerns to develop the best PC repair services and solutions to their business problems?

IT Audit and IT Inventory Management - Knowing Which Assets You Have

SAManage — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:52:32 -0500

Knowing which IT assets you have and how they are used has become a challenge in today's complex and ever evolving IT infrastructure, yet managing IT Assets is an important task for any business.

Can Endicia Make the Post Office Palatable?

James Gaskin — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:57:35 -0500

Small businesses tend to forget about the US Post Office for shipping once they get past a handful of packages per week. And if you deal with the Post Office as a consumer, or your particular Post Office treats consumers like annoyances, you run happily to FedEx or UPS and never look back. So I was surprised to hear from a company called Endicia that can make the Post Office a viable shipping option for businesses, including services like volume rebates, flat rate shipping, and Saturday delivery for no extra charge.

Cyber-criminals Get Organized

James Gaskin — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:29:00 -0500

Symantec just released a new way to make us lose sleep at night, called the Symantec Report on the Underground Economy. In case you weren't depressed enough by the regular economy, Symantec will be happy to bum you out about the increasingly organized world of hackers, spammers, and phishers.

Millennials Love Service Subscriptions

James Gaskin — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:27:00 -0500

Kudos to Martha Young and her story Leadership – The Millennials Impact on Business. As a parent of two Millennials myself, let me add one note to Martha's story about business impact. Many Millennials assume everything they use comes on a subscription model, and they'll carry that “lease rather than own” idea forward as they go into the workforce.

Visiting Adtran Support

James Gaskin — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:35:50 -0500

I spent the last two days in Huntsville Alabama on a press tour of Adtran. Huntsville is nice, and the Adtran people are even nicer. The press tour was a good idea, because they're a good company with too low a profile.

Enterprise IT Asset Management - Managing Your IT Assets

SAManage — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:02:26 -0500

By effectively managing the life cycle of an organization's IT assets, the IT manager has significant influence to improve an organization's overall performance, reduce costs, improve effectiveness, and improve and demonstrate the IT department's ROI. Managing an Enterprise's IT assets is essential for an organization's competitiveness today.

Virtualization infiltrates midsize companies

ITworld staff — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:06:16 -0500

Midsize companies have jumped on the virtualization bandwagon to achieve cost savings on hardware, power and space, according to survey results released Tuesday.