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By now, cloud computing is a term that has made its way into everyday business IT discussions. An appropriate cloud computing strategy that fits your day-to-day operations, as well as long-term usability, can be an essential component of business success. Cloud computing gives un…

As a key decision-maker for your business, you’re always facing a litany of uncertainties about the future—which can be both exciting and scary. If you make smart, safe moves, you’ll likely expand slowly and manageably. But sometimes it’s fun to get wild with high-risk, high-rewa…

Choosing a technology vendor for your business can easily go one of two ways. On one hand, you can end up with a fantastic partnership where the vendor brings much needed products, services and expertise to your business. On the other hand, it can be pretty easy to end up with a …

Call to mind the person who manages your office technology. The one who handles the issues with the phones, gets answers to all the IT questions and takes on the responsibility of ensuring the office copier never runs out of toner. The person puts in the effort to make sure your …

Marco’s Stax program is structured to help businesses add ease to their operations and lower their expenses at the same time. It applies a loyalty discount to your services; a discount that grows with every service you add to your program. Before we dive into the discount, let’s …

Cloud service and storage providers offer valuable IT solutions for businesses of all sizes. Originally thought of as more for personal use, cloud storage for business is following in the footsteps of many personal technologies adapted for business purposes. As Clay Ostlund, Marc…

Cloud computing is a rapidly growing solution for issues related to data storage and collaboration. The "cloud" itself is simply a virtualization of resources — such as data storage, applications, servers and networks all working in unison to allow access to information on-demand…

The cloud; if anyone's making nominations for the 21st century's top technology buzzword, let's just say I know where my vote is going. In a world where technology changes and evolves at the speed of light, somehow the cloud finds a way to stay top-of-mind and for that matter, ti…

With so many managed IT providers offering access and easy migration to cloud computing, it can be difficult to determine which company is the best to partner with on this journey. As you compare the services and technologies offered by a provider, remember that any good cloud co…

Public clouds, private clouds, hybrid clouds. What do they all mean? Where does one end and the other begin? How do they overlap? Which one is best? So many questions, I know. So, I’ll try and spell it all out for you as plainly as possible, beginning with the public cloud and it…