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 …
The cloud is one of the most exciting and game-changing things to happen to IT in a decade. It’s growing five times faster than typical IT products — hoppin’ cumulonimbus! But … (You knew there was a but, didn’t you?) … there are major caveats. Just ask some of the companies that use Amazon Web …
If you’re a nonprofit in Georgia and you want to make a greater impact, who you gonna call? The Georgia Center for Nonprofits (GCN). For 20 years, GCN has been helping nonprofits leap higher so they can do more good. From its Nonprofit University and consultant services, to job postings, health insurance options and their …
Fasten your seatbelt because this is going to be one fast-moving year in tech! We scoured the most respected IT trending sources, combined them with what we’re seeing in the industry and our own client base, and now are glad to present you with (drum roll, please) Leapfrog’s Top 10 Tech Trends for 2011. No …
Now when your phone rings, you can answer it on your computer. And you can read faxes on your smart phone. You can view text messages on your laptop and you can listen to your emails. It may sound topsy-turvy but a “unified communications” system simplifies your life. By integrating all of your communications— phone, …
Why not have your money do something really good while it earns a return on your investment? This is what Leapfrog client Gray Ghost Ventures is all about. It’s a different kind of investment firm, one that invests in business models around the world that are sustainable, improve lives and make a profit — that’s …
“Collaboration” in the IT world means using technology to communicate better as a team. This can range from using free web tools (like Skype) to online subscription “workspaces” to “unified communications” that can be highly complex. Whatever the technology, the goal is the same: to allow people to work together on projects — often in …
Leapfrog likes cloud computing. “Software as a service” platforms such as customer relationship management (CRM) or enterprise resource planning (ERP) can be the perfect solution to help you manage your business. Why buy complex, expensive software and the hardware to run it when you can subscribe at a fraction of the cost? However, when it …
Initially they were aiming to plant 200,000 trees. Instead, EARTH University pulled together enough support to plant more than five times that number of trees — nearly 1.2 million — all in ONE day. The “EARTH Plants the Future” project was in celebration of EARTH University’s 20th anniversary. And it took place, appropriately, on World …
If you run a small or medium-sized business or nonprofit, virtualization is more about flexibility, stability and scale than preserving your capital. Sure, virtualization may lower your capital expenditures on hardware but the real benefits are in your infrastructure and portability. Here are three things you need to know: First, once you’re virtualized, you can …