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Outlook… Charm or Curse?
Do you open Outlook and check your email as soon as you sit down at your desk each day? If you do, you’re not alone. The average professional switches applications 30 times an hour to check or answer messages… and the effect on productivity can be staggering. Outlook…Charm or Curse? According to McKinsey Global Institute, reading…
Read MoreWhat IT Management Can Learn from Football Coaches
It’s the most wonderful time of year … we’ve kicked off college football and the NFL regular season is upon us! (Here’s hoping the Bills can finally deflate the Patriots.) In honor of this great team sport, we’ve decided to torture an analogy and see how football fundamentals can apply to managing an IT network.…
Read MoreWho Can You Trust?
A great thing about getting a new computer is knowing it’s pristinely free of junk files and PUPs (potentially unwanted programs). Of course, nowadays new computers do come with a lot of “bloatware,”-a tradeoff for a lower price that most of us can tolerate. But, what if a well-known manufacturer sold you a computer with…
Read MoreDatabase Management Systems … Worth the Investment?
Big Data. Everyone wants it, but no one really knows what it is (unless you’re Big Blue, that is). Well, Big Data is just that… a lot of data… and if you have a lot of data, you need a place to store it. With that comes database management systems (DBMS), which organizes, stores and…
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