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Sarah Gardiner

Not Your Father's File Cabinet – – Digital Document Management & Storage Systems

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The radical fundamental change for document management systems of many accounting firms & professional practices Intuit announced in Spring of this year the discontinuation of its Lacerte and ProSeries Document Management Systems, in lieu of SmartVault to fill that space. Technologist Randy Johnston of K2 wrote in his 2013 column that, “It is rare to see a document management…

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Webinar: Thurs 8/28 : Ditch That Old Office Server – – Empower Your Business with Private Cloud Servers

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Cloud-hosted virtual private servers are challenging the innate limits of 20th century localized computers … while maintaining a familiar appearance and settings you’re comfortable with. Register for Webinar Thurs 8/28 @ 11AM-12PM PDT  – Empower Your Business with Private Cloud Servers! Keeping your business efficient, secure, and ahead of the competition is getting more complex every…

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Customer Value Pricing: – Providing Greater Value & Getting Paid Equitably For It

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Customer value pricing is one of the best and least utilized business financial models today, for professional services. Via this approach, customer value pricing is not only set based on the number of hours delivered plus profit markup, it’s also commensurate on the value of the service delivered to the client. Click for infographic ….See also: Taking Dead…

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Cloud Based Storage: New Intuit Infographic Says It All

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Where’s the safest place to store your crucial business files and data? Not on your local hardware, which can fail, or in physical file cabinets. Nowadays, to insure you’ll keep them secure forever, you move them to cloud based storage. Here’s a new infographic from Intuit® Tax Online that demonstrates why cloud based storage is safe,…

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Cloud Risk? | IDC White Paper Assessment: – Not Using Cloud Now Main Risk to Business Productivity

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According to a new report (below) from a prominent market intelligence think tank, Not using Cloud is now the greatest cloud risk to business productivity “Cloud risk hype continues to mount,” reports David Bradshaw, a market researcher at International Data Corporation  (IDC), “But underneath the hype, enterprise IT really is evolving. There are essentially two categories…

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Happy SysAdmin Day to our Great Cloud9 Tech Team!

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It’s the 25th of July, which means it’s Systems Administrators Appreciation Day once more. SysAdmin Day is a special day each year where SysAdmins around the planet say to each other “Wow, we can hardly believe that we all made IT yet another year”, and everyone else forgets that this has been a thing for…

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Cloud Computing Anxiety: Overcoming Your Fears of a New Paradigm

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Pavlov and Cloud Computing Anxiety: How Might We Ever Reconcile Our New Paradigm Fears & Phobias? It is intriguing to ponder why some wrestle with cloud computing anxiety and the new paradigm of cloud-based data management. It often seems more secure to have our most important files and software applications in close physical proximity to our station where we…

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Survey: The Managed Cloud Providers Solution – Oddly, In-House Server Pros Know Little About ‘IT’

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According to a new poll from Spiceworks, a lion share of IT professionals overlook managed cloud providers  Click for poll results The new survey indicates that the majority of in-house IT professionals still know little about this newer approach to managed hosted services like data storage. The survey indicated that nearly 80% of IT pros administer their infrastructure…

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Small Business Cloud Migration (part 1): – You Should Really Look Before You Leap

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Emerging cloud based technologies and services uniquely designed to help small businesses prosper are appearing at an unprecedented rate Last year the Wall Street Journal reported that there were 30 million (approx) small businesses in North America. Clearly, SMBs are the foundation of our economy, and we’ve seen emerging cloud based technologies and services uniquely designed to help them…

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