Business Systems Support

Preaching Backup Again

Posted by on February 19, 2010 at 7:00 am

The Western Digital My Book World Edition 4 TB (2 x 2 TB) Network Attached Storage Drive is WD’s latest device to add a remarkable amount of storage capacity to your local network. Although the design squarely hits the home network sweet spot, it would be a great economical addition to a small office network [...]

Beware Of Twitter User Name Identity Theft

Posted by on February 17, 2010 at 7:00 am

Strangest thing happened to me the other night while I reviewed Google alerts that watch my name, company name and social networking user names. I like to keep an eye out for strange happenings so I’m not blind sided by something. The Google alert for my Twitter username picked up one of my tweets. I [...]

Virtual Machines Are Not Free

Posted by on January 18, 2010 at 6:00 am

Alex Bakman, founder and CEO of VKernel writes an excellent paper on evaluating costs of virtual machines titled, “Virtual Machines Are Not Free”. You can read the report at Vkernel’s site. I never fail to be amazed at the notion some business owners ferverently hold to, that one copy of software entitles one to install [...]

Virtual QuickBooks Multi User Into The Cloud

Posted by on January 15, 2010 at 12:37 pm

Extending our understanding of routine software tools such as QuickBooks Multi User sets the stage for us to profit from new technologies. Most of us know the QuickBooks icon well. Our common frame of reference allows us to explore over-used, over-hyped technology terms like virtual computing, virtualization, cloud computing, cloud services and the cloud, in [...]

Virtualization Cost For Small To Medium Businesses

Posted by on January 11, 2010 at 7:57 am

Advertising builds expectations that lead to sales pipelines loaded with prospects armed with the seeds of anticipated pricing. Virtualization rapidly rose to the top of technical must-haves for businesses looking to upgrade their computing infrastructure. Recently, Dell promoted it’s virtualization with an interesting ad. I don’t often get such a clear opportunity to demonstrate the [...]