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July 2011
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Disaster Preparedness |
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Are You Ignoring Customers? |
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Steps to Rapid ROI |
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File Organization Tips |
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Business Continuity Tip | |
Business Continuity Tip
Heat Wave
Fire up the AC; the hot and humid days of summer have arrived.
As temperatures rise, it's important to remember, extreme heat can produce electrical brownouts. Having a backup plan for power loss can prevent short-term interruptions from becoming long-term pain. To avoid unexpected interruptions this summer, protect your technology with an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) and have charged laptops, with back-up batteries, on-hand for employees. While extreme heat can wreak havoc on computers and other electrical devices, it also poses a serious threat to the well-being of your family and your employees. During the summer months, more people in this country die from extreme heat than from hurricanes, lightning, tornadoes, floods and earthquakes combined.
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Five Steps Toward Disaster Preparedness
used with permission from Cisco Small Business Site
For small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), the impacts of a disaster can result in loss of or lack of access to data, applications, and work facilities. Hurricane Katrina's devastation of the U.S. Gulf Coast in 2005 impacted countless businesses, from retail stores and hotels to major corporations. Those with disaster recovery plans in place fared much better than those without such contingency plans.
More SMBs Beginning to Plan for Disasters
While the business impacts of disasters—such as the loss of data and communications infrastructure, leaving a business unable to function—are widely understood, SMB have been slower to develop disaster recovery plans as compared to larger organizations. But that appears to be changing.
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Are You Ignoring Customers?
used with permission from the HP solutions Site
Customer Feedback
Want to respond to your customers' needs instantly? Learn more about becoming an Instant-On Enterprise Out of frustration, a team of gardeners wanted to fence a flowerbed after visitors repeatedly cut through it. But one visionary saw things differently and had a path installed instead. After all, it wasn't just any destination—it was Disneyland. Founder Walter "Walt" Disney understood that guests knew where they wanted to go, and it was the staff's job to give them what they wanted. Just like those guests, customers—both in business and the public sector—seek the easiest path. If you don't help your customers get there, your competitor will. Unfortunately, many organizations are losing supporters by ignoring customer feedback on a daily basis without realizing why.
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Five steps to rapid ROI
used with permission from the HP Solutions Site
Located near Geneva, Switzerland, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is one of the world’s largest physics laboratories, dedicated almost exclusively to the world’s largest particle accelerator. On its way to unlocking the secrets of the universe, the laboratory had to determine how to efficiently wring massive computing power from a 35-year-old data center.
Ultimately, the solution was to reduce power consumption, according to a white paper published by Intel and CERN.
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File organization tips: 9 ideas for managing files and folders
used with permission from Microsoft at Work
 The tips in this article can help you master file management by supplying some tips to help you better manage and organize computer files. After you’ve decided on a strategy for organizing and managing files and folders, we bet you’ll see improved time management skills and increased productivity.
Check out the reader tips. We've gotten hundreds of great comments on this article from the content feedback tool at the bottom of the page. And many of you left file organization tips and even suggestions for naming files and folders. We updated this article to include some of the tips we received.
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