November 2008
In this issue:
 Note from the President
Presenting with Powerpoint
Do You
Need Managed Services?
Virtualization Overview
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This
month our articles focus on Managed Services, Virtualization,
and some PowerPoint tips.
It is
very important to manage your network effectively. Users of
your network need an efficient system that is cost effective
and that lessens your risk of downtime. Companies with managed
services save money, increase productivity, and greatly reduce
the threat of downtime.
In
business today, there seems to be way too many servers in the
computer room. It seems like sometime there are more servers
than there are employees in the organization. Virtualization
is where IT is heading and I know that many of you don’t quite
get what it’s all about. The article below will lend some
insight on what virtualization actually is and why you should
consider it for your network. Virtualization definitely helps
the bottom line.
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PowerPoint: 10 Dos and Don'ts
by Jeff Wuorio
reprinted with permission from
Microsoft Small Business Center
 Cherie Kerr knows how PowerPoint can be
both provocative and persuasive in a business meeting.
She's also aware
that precisely the opposite can occur.
"It can be the very
best friend you have," says the Santa Ana, Calif., public
relations consultant. "But you have to use it right."
Kerr's two-sided
view of Microsoft's popular presentation and graphics program
mirrors a debate coursing through business and academia. While
many embrace the values of PowerPoint as a potent business
tool, there are others who contend that it's a drag on
effective interaction — that it confuses, distorts and even
strangles communication.
But, as Kerr points
out, any discussion of PowerPoint's merits and miscues merely
illustrates the importance of using the program to best
advantage. Here are 10 ways to use PowerPoint to help make
your business look brilliant, not brainless.
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Do You Need Managed Services?
Four questions for you
to answer
Are managed services a better choice
than the way you are doing things now? Like everything
else in your office, the answer will depend on how you
want to measure it.
Your first
step is to answer these four questions.
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- Do your
employees need to regularly enter data or retrieve
information from a centralized server or database? The more
they rely on this, the stronger the case for managed
services.
- Do your
employees rely primarily on e-mail communication with
important clients, vendors and partners? Again, the higher
the impact on your bottom line, the more you should consider
managed services.
- Do you use
e-commerce? You don't want that capability lost for a minute
- period.
- Does your
network go south occasionally? And, consequently, are your
employees unable to use e-mail or access network data? One
of the ways to justify managed services is to calculate the
cost of your people sitting on their hands.
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Virtualization
Overview
by Jane
Cage, COO, HTS
 We live in a
world that constantly forces us to “do more with less”.
Employees are expected to be more efficient. Multi-function
devices are becoming the standard on many desktops. We
multi-task by answering email, talking on the phone and
reviewing a spreadsheet – all at the same time.
We shouldn’t be
surprised then that IT departments are asking the same of
their fileservers. When server utilization gets measured, we
find that many servers have much more capacity than they
actually use for the majority of the time. With so much excess
capacity – why not run more than one server on a single
machine? That’s what virtualization is all about -- one
physical machine running more than one server operating
system.
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