Archive for 'Managed IT Services' Category

What should you expect from your managed service provider?

By Mary Ann Denton - Email - Last updated: Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Your managed service provider should be a business partner in every sense of the word. They should provide strategic advice relevant to your overall business goals, using technology as a means to achieve those goals. What else should they provide? Check out the list below when evaluating your current MSP:

Technical expertise and strong communication skills.
An [...]

Email Etiquette: Do’s and Don’ts

By Mary Ann Denton - Email - Last updated: Tuesday, August 10, 2010

So why all the rules? Well for one, it’s important to remain professional in company communications, both to appear competent to your customers, and because you never know who may intercept your mail. Second, emails that are to the point and easy to read are more efficient. Lastly, employees that understand email etiquette are less likely to put the company at risk.

Do Your Servers Affect Your SEO Strategy?

By aleadbeater - Email - Last updated: Monday, June 21, 2010

By: Mark Kennedy
There are over 200 factors (and counting) that are part of the Google search engine algorithm. And while tags, links and content get the lion’s share of the press, your servers actually play a part in your SEO efforts as well.
 One of the newest factors in the search ranking algorithm is the load [...]

IT Pro: Job Description Redefined

By Mary Ann Denton - Email - Last updated: Friday, June 18, 2010

by David Moorman, President, DynaSis
So as an IT pro, you might be asking, “What does my job look like as the technology industry and my company move toward managed services?” “Why would we use an Atlanta managed IT company if the internal IT pro can handle it?” In the same way you may hire a [...]

Reducing Business Risk With IT

By Mary Ann Denton - Email - Last updated: Monday, June 7, 2010

by Chas Arnold, Partner and Executive VP of DynaSis
What business risks do you have? Reducing a significant amount of business risk can be as simple as implementing the right IT practices. Network security, downtime, and data loss are among the biggest concerns for companies when considering their liabilities, but a well built infrastructure with solid procedures in [...]

Case Study: Microsoft Hosted Exchange

By Bellwether - Email - Last updated: Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Boh Bros. Construction Co., LLC was founded in 1909 by Arthur Boh as a small residential construction company and expanded to include heavy and civil construction. Driven by the leadership of the Bohs, the company has evolved into a stable, growing enterprise employing over 1500 people.
Boh Bros. decided to migrate their roughly 350 email mailboxes [...]

TIP – Moving Outlook Signatures from one computer to another

By John Mansi (IT Solutions) - Email - Last updated: Tuesday, April 27, 2010

We’ve all set up new computers for folks, and have had to set up and migrate Outlook Mail Settings.
We’ve all moved PST files, and if we’re good, we’ve also moved NK2 files… but sometimes Signatures can be a real pain in the outbox.
Sure, we could go to the users’ Sent Items and play the copy-paste [...]

iPad: Be Prepared.

By Fran Camardella (IT Solutions) - Email - Last updated: Thursday, April 15, 2010

Yes, this picture is real. Not bogus. That is Windows 7, running on an iPad. Now, if only we could get OS X to run on it. Oh, the irony…but I digress.
But for those people working in IT who have been trying so desperately to convince themselves that they actually NEED an iPad, this may [...]

So what is Cloud Computing?

By clarisnetworks.com - Email - Last updated: Thursday, March 25, 2010

By now, most of us have heard of cloud computing.  Talk about a buzzword – it’s easy to get caught up in the term and not know what it actually does.  Is there any clarity about what cloud computing is?  Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and countless others offer the cloud with lots of claims associated with [...]

Netbooks vs. Notebooks

By clarisnetworks.com - Email - Last updated: Thursday, March 25, 2010

It seems I get asked at least once a month if I think someone should buy a netbook, or a notebook… and to be honest, I’m always hesitant to answer that question because I’ve never had the chance to really put one through the paces. The specs on them “look” okay and the [...]