Working From Home
Much has been said over the years about the pros and cons of telecommuting, and yet for some reason many business managers still feel a great deal of resistance toward the notion. As a professional geek this is something quite baffling to me. Especially in light of a recent article that reported on findings of [...]
Continue Reading →Kiss It
We’ve all heard of the KISS principle, right? Keep It Simple, Stupid. It can apply to many areas of life, as I’m sure we’ve all seen. When you make things overly complicated, it just introduces more places for things to go wrong. I was reminded of this while working at a client’s site last week. [...]
Continue Reading →Commodity Computing
As promised, I want to talk about commodity computing this week. What it is, how it affects you, and how it relates to utility computing. So let’s get straight to it, shall we?
Continue Reading →Utility Computing
This week I want to take a look at one of the buzz-phrases that’s sometimes bandied about by computer types – utility computing. It’s an idea that’s generated a lot of interest in the past year or so, and I can understand why. The Wikipedia has an item on utility computing, but it’s a bit [...]
Continue Reading →The Cost Of Downtime
(Note: this item was emailed to newsletter subscribers about 3 weeks ago. To subscribe to CPG Systems’ bi-monthly newsletter, please fill out the form on the CPG Systems website.) What is worth to have your business stop, because of a computer or systems failure? Let’s take a quick look at what it can mean when [...]
Continue Reading →Young Workers
While at a training session for some Microsoft products a couple weeks back, the speaker moved away from talking about pure technology for a few minutes. Instead, he spoke about a problem that faces many companies – retaining new, younger staff. The problem, he suggested, had nothing to do with wages, benefits or the people [...]
Continue Reading →Is It Really Safe?
I’m going to stay with the backup theme for another week, and look at some of the problems businesses face once they’ve already decided what sort of backup device they’re going to use. Specifically, now that you have a backup, does it work? This is a question that many companies never ask themselves, or their [...]
Continue Reading →Why Is It Slow?
A common complaint for staff is that the network always seems to be “slower” in the early afternoon. They start work in the morning and things are fine. Then they walk away, have lunch, and when they return to their desks, the network or their computer seems slower. Have you ever wondered why this might [...]
Continue Reading →Leveraging Technology
In the modern digital era, virtually all businesses use technology to some degree, and some to a greater degree than others. But what is the hallmark of technological success? What is it about some companies that enable them to achieve greater efficiency than others? As many business analysts will tell you, the ability to sow [...]
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