IT Managed Services

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Is your data recoverable?

Statistics can be scary! Did you know that 50% of companies who lose access to their data for more than 10 days file for bankruptcy immediately, and that 93% of them are out of business within one year? [...]

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Is Cloud Computing Safe?

A lot is written today about the risks and benefits of Cloud Computing.  The truth is, both the benefits and risks of Cloud Computing can be very substantial. In a previous blog I ask the question “Why would [The Cloud] [...]

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Google Partners with Mastercard and Citigroup for Wave and Pay System

Recently, a series of announcements from Citigroup, Google and Mastercard are talking-up the technology that allows for payment of purchases by simply waiving your cell phone near a point of sale device. The technology is called Near Field Communication (NFC) [...]

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Apple strikes back!

In my blog’s description I say that technology does not stay the same for long, and here is a perfect example. Today, just six days after Motorola’s big announcement about their Xoom tablet, Apple announced the iPad2. Everybody knows that [...]

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Motorola Xoom arrives at last!

Today was announcement day for the long-awaited for Motorola Xoom. Weeks ago I put my name on a pre-sale list and when I got a phone call this morning that my Xoom was ready to be picked-up,  I could not [...]

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Is “The Cloud” driving you crazy?

Every time I hear someone say, “You need to put your business in the Cloud,” I want to scream! I’m not saying there aren’t some good things worth putting in “the cloud”, but just exactly where is that, and why [...]

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