In Part 1 of the Disaster Recovery overview, I got to cover some of the basic ideas and situations that are a common occurrence in “Server” outages within Small & Medium sized businesses.
The biggest misconception facing small and medium sized business owners is the common belief that everything is “Under Control” and that their “IT Guy” has them sorted out.
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So what is the plan when disaster strikes your IT system, and all your staff cannot work and customers cannot be serviced? The answer I get most of the time when I am chatting to new prospects is “We’ll just phone our IT provider, I am sure that they will sort it out!”
Apple recently launched the iPad in South Africa and on the 2nd of March 2011, announced the launch of the iPad 2, was it a “Game Changer” in terms on Tablets…..I don’t believe so.
So what is all the hype about? Some would say they are nothing more than an oversized Smart Phone, some say a Notebook/Netbook replacement.
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Here’s an excerpt from a letter sent to us to decline our proposal for services:
“Having noted that your [proposal] to maintain our computer setup and network system is highly professional and desirable….we had to take into account our budget which simply did not allow us to accept [it]…”
As the sales and marketing manager, it’s really hard hearing that. So why didn’t we just drop our prices?
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April 1st marks the date the new Companies Act is introduced. This succinct article on the Act from Brett Bentley makes for good reading, but here’s a 6 point review on relevant changes to company types form the article:
Do you remember when Apple looked like their days were numbered? Probably not, but still – they are now $100 billion bigger than Microsoft (which is more than 
even Mubarak could – allegedly – pilfer whilst he still had access to the till). Is this the beginning of the end for the company that once ruled the technology universe? Lee Pender’s Blog post tells us more…
