Archive for December, 2008
by Amy Nutt
Data center outsourcing is something that has grown in popularity for a number of reasons. Many find that maintaining a data center in-house is not something they can do. They may not be able to do it because of monetory reasons or manpower reasons. Many times, the reason why the manpower isn’t there is because it costs a lot to have the right people with the right skills to maintain an in house data center.
Due to financial and other restrictions, many businesses have turned to data center outsourcing. There are quite a few advantages to it. Although there are advantages to having an in-house data center, you may be quite surprised at the fact outsourcing can reduce overhead, therefore reduces cost. Photo by jblyberg
Where did it come from?
Private data centers started springing up as a way to tell businesses, Hey, we have something affordable that you can use. Basically, they let the business know that they have a service that business needed. They showed how outsourcing a data center was more practical than the business having to maintain the equipment on their own. It also keeps the business from having to maintain staffs to take care of the data center. It is definitely a full-time job and it takes more than one person to carry out the data center’s managed services which also adds to the responsibilities and worries of the business. Continue Reading »
The advantages of outsourcing your data center
There are many ways to backup important files. The following are some ways people safe keep their files:
- Save files and documents into an external drive such as a memory stick, a hard disk or burn into a cd.
- Copy files into a file server at home or at office.
- Send an email with an attachment of the file back to him or herself.
Today, there are numerous ways for people to backup their files, but many are still not safely storing their files elsewhere in case of a virus attack, a hard disk crash or the case of a stolen laptop. Photo by scalespeeder
One reason why files are not backed up is because it’s time consuming and inconvenient. Imagine having to manually copy all your music, family / child / wedding pictures, term papers, financial documents, legal documents to an external drive all the time. It can be quite a painful process for those who are working on new files everyday.
Recently, Internet bandwith and speed has improved tremendously enabling people to store and keeptheir data somewhere else through online backup technology.
In this post, I will guide you through how you can safely backup important files online for free. Continue Reading »
How to safely backup important files online for free
For many organizations keen on investing in professional services such as implementing an ERP system or setting up an enterprise network, the common method would be to request for a proposal or quotation from various vendors within the state. Photo by lavarrue
But did you know that there are some potential problems when buying professional services via the RFP and RFQ methods?
This article, Buying Professional Services - a Re-Think mentions the problems with RFPs and RFQs followed by providing a solution to the problem.
In summary, the article talks about purchasers or investors which may not fully understand how the required service is best delivered. This is very true as many times purchasers are only equipped with a high level requirement of what is really needed. And the requirement is probably from the words of their boss… We need an ERP system! And to justify this, many are indeed searching for free samples of IT RFP templates simply because they do not really know what is really required when implementing a system. Continue Reading »
Disadvantages and problems of utilizing RFP or RFQ
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Your organization has implemented SAP as the ERP system.
However, most of your organization’s applications are on the Microsoft.NET platform such as Microsoft Sharepoint and CRM 3.0
Since SAP holds some critical data which can be used to make key decisions, the senior management has requested for some information to be made available on the intranet system.
From this requirement, Is there a way to expose information from SAP such as employees leave balance, employee details, or even remaining stock quantity to the .Net based system?
Yes, it is possible to achieve by utilizing a connector and one such connector is called ERPConnect.net by Theobald Software. Continue Reading »
How to access SAP data through .NET
