Heck, how about when things go *boom* during the day? It is every techs worst nightmare: “Uh, the server won’t boot up.” “What does this smoke rolling out of the back of the server mean?” “We lost all power to our building last night, and when the power company turned it on this morning; we…
Category: IT Management Services
Weird Stuff Happens…
Mavidea customers have learned over the years that we are paranoid about backups and disaster recovery. We are constantly pushing to improve backup processes and technology. I was listening to a computer security podcast last week (Security Now with Steve Gibson – it’s geeky but you’ll learn a ton if you listen) and they were…
When to Consider a Server
I spend a lot of my time at Mavidea searching for solutions that solve problems. Sometimes the problems are focused on security – protecting data from outside and inside misuse; sometimes they are focused are increasing worker efficiency – how can I make the computer network so stable that users can keep working and be…
Jamie’s Guide to Purchasing a Laptop
One question our clients repeatedly want to know is what type of laptop they should buy. What a loaded question! First, we need to answer a few very important questions:…
Office 2010!
I wanted to send out a quick post to let you all know that Microsoft Office 2010 is here! Well, mostly…. Microsoft Volume Licensing for businesses has Office 2010 available right now, but OEM (pre-installed on computers) and Retail Box will be out soon….