Don’t Put All Of Your IT Eggs In One Basket

Don’t Put All Of Your IT Eggs In One Basket

IT budgets are being slashed, IT support staff have to “do more with less”, and yet more and more demands are always being asked. Corporate (C-level) executives focus on the bottom line (as they should), so when push comes to shove, they just make it simple—centralize. Less hubs, less expenses, more profit. What’s an IT guy to do?

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Yahoo Voice hacked, 450,000 passwords leaked/posted

Do you use Yahoo Voice? If so, you’ll be happy to know that your login info – both email and password – could have been one of the 450,000 accounts that got hacked and posted online this morning. Yahoooooo!….. No, that’s not a good thing. It’s time to change your password.

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The Cloud Ate My Homework

Gone are the excuses of my generation. ‘I forgot my notebook at home’, ‘someone already checked out the library book I needed’ or the fan favorite ‘my dog ate my homework’ don’t work anymore. That doesn’t mean that students today don’t have excuses. Technology may give us many benefits, but it can also give us a lot of grief.

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Mom, Just Buy Deep Freeze

When you work in IT, you’re always doing IT. You work all day troubleshooting computer problems and tackling IT support tickets. Then what happens when you come home? You’re IT guy for hire to all of your friends and family.

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Untangling The Mess Of IT Support

I put my headphones into my bag every night, and every morning I pull them out when I get to work. This goes smoothly time and time again, but then today I took them out only to find some knotted and tangled mess. These days always go downhill from here…

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