JUNE 2012: It’s true: hopping up to the cloud can make your business greener. By using computing services instead of operating (and cooling) your own hardware, you reduce your energy consumption, your energy costs and your carbon footprint — hooray for your bottom line and the environment! The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), a nonprofit working …
APRIL 2012: If you want your company’s iPad cool factor to extend from the boardroom to the back office to the IT team, you have some decisions to make! Especially about security and how to handle business use versus personal use. Here are seven ways to make sure your company’s tablets keep your business …
MARCH 2012: Remember when making decisions about technology was an IT department responsibility? Back then, IT revolved around physical hardware — how to chose the best components, where to put them and how to connect, cool and fix them — and software that needed to be written or bought, installed and updated. Then, in …
Imagine 37 football fields of new technology. That’s what you and your fellow 153,000 attendees got at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) — gadgets for as far as the eye can see. Where’s a businessperson to start? Right here! In a few short paragraphs and nine “best of” and round-up links, you can hop …
Netbooks — the small, lightweight, highly portable laptop computers that were once hot-hot-hot — have evidently had their 15 minutes of fame after having been soundly dethroned by tablets. So what’s the laptop industry to do? Hop on some major improvements! 2012 is poised to be the year of the super-slim, super-powerful, super-stylish Ultrabooks …
Are you connected to the Internet at home by both DSL and a cable modem? Why, no, that would be like throwing good money right out of the family pond! The same goes for having a computer network and a separate phone system at work. VoIP (voice over Internet protocol) is a mature technology …
With newness ranging from new products to new operating systems to a new (gasp!) CEO to its new status as the world’s most valuable company — it surpassed Exxon at the end of August— the company that rocked the world with the iPod in 2001 keeps shaking things up. What makes Apple’s innovation so …
If you’re ready to be an “early adopter” using tablets in your business, you’re too late! Businesses around the world are already using iPads and other tablets in all kinds of ways. Small businesses, medium-size businesses and enterprises are on board, and integration is 70% or higher in some industries, which is remarkable considering Apple …
It works better for projects than email. It’s in the cloud. It’s more affordable than ever. For these reasons and more, an increasing number of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are now using collaboration technology. According to InformationWeek, one third of all SMBs are spending more on collaboration this year. When you consider that transitioning …
If your small or medium size business (SMB) hasn’t invested in new servers for a while, you may be in for a hoppin-good surprise. Virtualization is a mature technology now, so your SMB has more options and flexibility when it comes to updating your infrastructure. For example, virtualization can cut the number of servers you …