IS YOUR IT DEPARTMENT RUN BY THE MOST TECH SAVVY EMPLOYEE? – IT MAY BE TIME TO OUTSOURCE

Many companies use their most technically savvy employees to help run IT tasks when necessary, even though it is not their primary position. This can be a daunting task for these workers to work proficiently enough to cover their regular position, and to stay on top of everything that needs to be done to keep the business running smoothly.
During crunch times, you wouldn’t want your skilled workers putting their energy towards maintenance, when they are a greater benefit to the company in their trained field. These dual employees are often times limited in their IT knowledge, and don’t undertake all of the small tasks that are beneficial to maintaining your database.
This is not a viable option and usually fails because the employee leaves or a problem arises that is too costly to fix. However, it is not cost effective for many small to medium sized companies to keep an in house IT Department.
Outsourcing your IT department is a great solution, and can be implemented quickly and easily with virtually no startup costs.  An outside agency can worry about the day to day operations while you have the peace of mind knowing that help is just an email or phone call away.  Let a professional service take care of protecting your company and let your employees focus on their field of expertise.
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FRIDAY THE 13TH

I wanted to write about Friday the 13th and how the Knights Templar, who are associate with setting up the Modern Day Banking System, were a part of the origins.

While doing a little research I found that the true origins are really not documented, only speculated, and there are quite a few.

This is an interesting article outlining where the superstition came from www.todayifoundout.com.  Hopefully if you have a fear of Friday the 13th, Triskaidekaphobia, this will quell your fears.

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DON’T GET TRAPPED INTO LONG TERM CLOUD HOSTING CONTRACTS – TANDEM HAS MONTHLY HOSTING SERVICES

Here is an interesting blog from blog.softwareinsider.org about cloud vendors starting to lock customers in to yearly and even up to seven year contracts. While its good to plan ahead, you never know what is going to happen seven years down the line.

If you’re on the fence about Virtual Desktop Hosting, why not stick your toes in the water with our month to month hosting plan rather than diving in over your head? There is always a full 30 day money back guarantee for those of you who prefer not to get near the pool at all.

For more information: Email support@cloudtopoffice.com or give us a call at (866)710-4228.

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SHOULD I PURCHASE A SERVER? – MAINTAINING A SERVER IS LIKE OWNING A POOL

Purchasing and maintaining your own sever is akin to owning and cleaning your own pool. Imagine you just bought a new house with a beautiful sparkling pool in the beginning of summer.  The weather is perfect, it’s fun learning about how to maintain the proper chemicals, and it just takes a little time each week.  After a few weeks algae starts to show up, and you look into what is causing the problem and buy some special product to nip it in the bud.  It looks better for a while, but your algae keeps creeping back up.  The weather gets hotter and a little more uncomfortable, and you neglect to do your regular chemical adjustment.  Before you know it, the algae is out of control and you have to bring in a professional to clean everything out.

You realize that since the newness has worn off, taking care of the pool isn’t really fun, it’s just another chore and you would rather not work on your weekend off, especially after you realize you don’t really know what you are doing. When you look at all of the expenses of purchasing cleaning tools, and all of the chemicals, plus emergency service, you aren’t really saving money. Not to mention, you’re not getting paid for this added labor and headache.  There are some people that maintain lovely pools by themselves, but they really know what they are doing, and they truly are engaged and enjoy working on their system.

The same thing goes for maintaining your own server, if you are not already computer savvy and have day dreams about owning your own server, this is not a safe bet for you.  Servers require regular maintenance, updates and backups, that if not done regularly can lead to serious problems, which costs an arm and a leg to get fixed in the long run.  There are also quite a few hidden fees, not just the price of the server.  Small to medium sized companies with their own servers, are the easiest to switch over to hosting, because they understand the hassle of a server, and hosting is actually cheap compared to what they have been paying.
Make the safe bet with virtually no startup costs and try out hosting today.  You can always cancel you service and get your money back if you are dissatisfied for any reason.  Email support@cloudtopoffice.com or give us a call at (866)710-4228.

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NEVER OUTSOURCING TO ROBOTS

Here is an interesting article I found about outsourced jobs moving from foreign countries to automated services from Motherboard.vice.com.

Have you ever really been helped by a robot when you need customer service?  I find them about as frustrating as self check out at the store.

Never fear, at Tandem CloudTop, you will always receive help from a real person from our company, and not by someone in another country or a robot, no matter how convincing they seem to get.

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