Key uses for Cloud Computing
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Thursday, 27 May 2010
Many small businesses that I work with are pretty new when it comes to cloud computing and are wondering what is it all about? Is it suitable for my business? Am I missing out on something? I'm going to talk about three key areas that I feel are highly valuable to the small business owner. 


- Backup
- Email
- Collaboration

Backup:
I consider myself an evangelizer of backups. If you don't have two backups in different physical locations, that's a problem. The easiest way is to sign up for an offsite backup service. There are many out there and they vary greatly in price and features, but in the long run can be an inexpensive failsafe to your primary backup system. To borrow the words of Woody from Toy Story: "An Offiste Backup. If you don't have one. Get One!"

Email:
Email isn't as cut and dried as offsite backup. How much you invest into your email system greatly depends on the size and scope of your business. Much may also depend on the nature of your business and whether industry or governmental regulations have to be adhered to. I wont' go into those issues but look at a more generic overview of Email services.If you have a Microsoft Exchange server in house, you will want to look into at the very least an mail bagging and spam filtering service. This will shield your internal Exchange server from outside threats and filter most unwanted mail, thus saving CPU utilization and resources from your server. It will also provide capture of emails while your server is offline for scheduled maintenance or in the event of an outage. There are also services out there that are tailored to extending and providing redundancy to your own in house email. These can provide you with very robust remote capabilities and also provide email archiving for a more complete approach to your disaster recovery plan.

Collaboration:
Collaboration and cloud services are a natural fit. Sharing files, documents and project collaboration can be accomplished cheaply and effectively. Web services that allow you to host online meetings, share your screen and work on documents together. There are many types of cloud based services out there. Taking advantage of cloud services in your business can provide data protection, ease of access to data or email, and the ability to collaborate with employees or partners from anywhere over the web. 
 
Our Services
Written by Administrator   
Wednesday, 25 April 2007


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• Managed IT Services

With a managed services agreement, we can provide top notch service and response time with a predictable monthly fee. Our managed services allow us to work proactively to keep your business up and running with the least amount of downtime.

 

• Disaster Recovery

Disasters unfortunately do happen. That’s why we will design a backup strategy and disaster recovery process that will help get you back up and running in the event of major server outage.


• Firewall configuration

Keep intruders out, and your company information in. We can help you choose the right kind of Firewall or Unified Threat Management device that will keep your network as safe as possible.

• Messaging Systems

Email is both ubiquitous and essential to any business’ operation today. We can help you fix your existing messaging system or implement a new one.

 
• Database Servers

Almost every business relies on a database platform to run the software that drives your company. We can maintain your database server and keep it excellent running order.

 

• IT Documentation

Documenting our work is one of the things that sets up apart from other computer support companies. We continually strive for excellence in what we do, and we work hard to have the documentation to prove it.

 

• IT consulting

            If you’re like most small companies, you may need helping sorting out all the technology jargon and knowing how technology affects your business. Don’t let your companies’ plan for growth be constricted by poor IT planning. Let us help.
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