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Annual IT Checkup -- Have you had yours?
If we take our health seriously,
we have an annual checkup. If you take your company’s technology
seriously, you should consider an annual periodic review of
the following:
- Can a new technology solve
your business problems?
- Can technology help you increase
customer satisfaction?
- Can technology help put profit
to your bottom line?
- Have you outgrown your existing
technology infrastructure?
Our account managers have been
trained to understand the impact that technology can have
on businesses every day. They will sit down with you to understand
more about your company business processes and problems and
help you determine how technology can make a difference. After
we’ve talked together about your business, we’ll deliver an
assessment of your current technology health and some suggestions
about how you might improve it. And unlike visiting the doctor,
you won’t receive a bill in the mail. If you are interested
in an “annual checkup”, please call us to setup an appointment
for an account manager & owner to visit your location.
Good technology health has many
parallels to good physical health – it’s always better to
be proactive than reactive. Take charge of getting the most
out of your technology today!
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Where
has all the
passion gone?
In a few months, I will reach my 28th year in business.
During this journey, I have experienced first hand the
occupational hazard that most small business owners seldom
acknowledge and never discuss. Yes, you guessed it, the
occupational hazard is CEO technophobia. And, when it
is diagnosed, it is most often self-treated. CEO technophobia
is often responsible for a complete loss of control of
the business. The root cause
of this profit killing problem is the onslaught of technology
change that has outpaced management’s ability to understand
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Some of the early
signs of CEO technophobia are a complete loss of interest and
control of happenings inside your organization's IT department
-- and almost no concern or passion for leveraging IT to improve
productivity and grow the business. In most cases, the computer
network and digital assets are removed from your daily activities,
and you allow this critical part of your business to run without
your direct input.
The good news is that treatment is now available. You can take
advantage of recent breakthroughs
to put you back in command. A short consult with me will clearly
determine how to turn your situation around and improve the
performance of your business. I can review your present situation
(in strict confidence) and help you achieve the stability and
rock solid business results you deserve.
Let’s talk!
Larry Shulman
President
631-694-2034
larrys@lmstech.com |
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Get
Back In the Driver's Seat
Do you remember when owning
a car used to be simple? 20 years ago we felt competent
enough to do a lot more with our cars than just fill
them up with gas. It wasn't even uncommon for the average
guy to carry out some solid repairs without ever calling
a mechanic. Today, it is rare to see anyone opening
the hood at all. The complexity of automotive technology
has grown so much that it is now easier and more cost
effective to
just let experts handle it and focus on enjoying
the drive.
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Business computing is heading in the same direction.
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8 Signs You Need to Upgrade Your Server
By Christopher Elliott
Reprinted
with permission from Microsoft
Small Business Center
Your server hardware is
a ticking time bomb.
Don't be
alarmed. It may never actually "blow up" —
which is to say, melt down and take lots of data with
it. But one day, sooner or later, it will become obsolete.
And for your business, that's potentially an explosive
liability.
"The
older your hardware is, the more likely that a failure
and loss of productivity will occur," warns Donald
Hess, senior systems engineer at Entre Computer Services,
a systems integrator based in Rochester, N.Y.
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"In
general, a company can avoid big expenses by updating its servers
every three years. If it waits five years, then there's a big
risk of being compelled to upgrade many components simultaneously."
Ouch.
What
exactly needs upgrading?
Most small businesses tend to think of their server as a whole,
which is to say hardware (the computer it runs on) and software
(the application that powers the server, such as Windows Small
Business Server) are one.
Talk to experts and you're likely to conclude that this holistic
approach to a server is correct for most businesses. Hardware
and software generally age at about the same rate. In other
words, the machines need to be modernized at roughly the same
interval as the server operating system is updated, give or
take a few months.
So
is your server ready for a once-over? Here are eight signs.
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Where is the Passion?
