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Our experience with “cloud computing”… Wonderful!
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I suppose I should first ask if you even know what the term “cloud computing” means. According to Wikipedia, cloud computing is Internet-based development and use of computer technology. Essentially, this means that rather than installing some type of hardware or software in your own business computers you just use the Internet to access the tools you need via the Internet.
In our case here at Scholl, Chyo & Company, CPAs we recently finished migrating our email, calendar, scheduling, tasks, etc. from our Microsoft Exchange Servers to Google’s Apps Premier Edition. I can now say that we’re thrilled with the results. We’ve been able to eliminate the cost of maintaining several expensive servers and saving David, our internal IT guru a ton of time and aggravation. At $50 per employee per year its cost is less than the annual Microsoft Exchange updates alone.
But, not only is there the true monetary savings, we now have a much more robust and stable communication platform. And boy was it tested quickly. Read More→
Private Use of Company Computers Puts Your Business at Risk
Posted by: | CommentsAs the use of computers becomes more built in to business operations employees naturally spend an increasing proportion of their time working at them. Working? Really? With temptations such as chat, streaming video, blogs, social networking and myriad other interesting sites (weather, maps, pornography, music, games, gambling, shopping, sports) it’s no wonder that surveys such as Websense’s annual Web@Work study reveal a depressing incidence of non-work related Web surfing by employees.
And its depressing not just because of the loss in productivity due to the amount of time wasted on such activities. These private activities, because they take place at the workplace using work computers, can entangle the business in legal prosecution cases related to their illegal use. Read More→
