Tech Budgeting 101 for Small Businesses
With the new year around the corner, now is an excellent time to review your organization’s budget to ensure your business has the resources it needs to continue to grow and prosper in the coming…
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Category: Managing IT
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Managing Technology Finances – Part 1: The challenges
Technology and finance don’t go together well. This is an unfortunate fact of life when you are managing an IT department. A fact that you MUST deal with the finances in an IT department even if it’s…
Technology for Startups – Part 2: Your Website
It’s likely that you will begin your journey as a startup with a website. This is a natural starting point. We often get calls from startup’s with the question “How much does it cost to create a…
Virtualization and Hypervisors for the businessperson
Virtualization is actually a very simple concept. When we say “virtualization” in technology we are talking about something that at one time was a physical device but is now able to be replaced by…
SNMP Monitoring
Simple Network Monitoring Protocol (or SNMP for short) is a very well established technology for monitoring devices on your network. This protocol has been around for a while which means that it can…
The “Resistance to Change” Disconnect
One of the first things that needs to be addressed when you are a manager over a technology department is the way that you look at change. As a manager and an executive, you are most likely more…
Intro to Managing IT
This will be the first post in a series of articles that is going to explore the confusing world of what it takes to manage an Information Technology department. My intent with these articles is NOT…