Tech Review: Microsoft Surface Pro
The market has provided its fair share of reviews and scoring of the Microsoft Surface Pro tablet. Although the feedback has been overwhelmingly negative, I
Patrick Ciccarelli
August 8, 2013
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The market has provided its fair share of reviews and scoring of the Microsoft Surface Pro tablet. Although the feedback has been overwhelmingly negative, I
In IT, there are always important discussions and investments regarding Disaster Recovery. Just like companies around the world, we take disaster recovery seriously, which is reflected in our thorough investment in things like our data center. Varsity has two data centers. One is located in the central valley near Sacramento and the other is near Salt Lake City. We selected our data centers based on the level of redundancy.
Recently I was pulled into a conversation between our technical staff and my client. The client had decided to migrate to Office 365, and was considering whether to update their local version of Office to 2010 or 2013. After several comments back and forth I decided to jump in. Here are some of the questions that came up and my responses.
I want to take a moment to write a short post about using Outlook with Gmail. The decision on what is right can be a difficult one to make for many organizations. The information can be overwhelming to sift through, and confusing when trying to determine what might be best for your organization’s specific needs.
I’ve never been much of a book reader. My mom would often say, “don’t worry, you’re not a slow reader, you read for content.” She was right. I loved all the details. Maybe too much so, as I could not satisfy the reading schedule for my English Literature professor my freshman year of college.
We have for you another “office culture” idea for bringing your people together. If you’re like most organizations and can’t really afford to provide lunch to employees every day, once a week, or even once a month, think about doing a “lunch and learn.”
Ever since Microsoft released Office 365 with academic and charity pricing, I’ve had several people ask about the features. One feature in particular has been especially interesting to me; the availability of Microsoft Sharepoint 2013 as an application platform for document management.
Recently I queued up The Lean Startup in my reading. The book provided a great explanation of the approach and history of “lean thinking.” Having
I have been fortunate to experiment with and actually use mobile technology in a variety of situations. Using tablet computers long before the iPad enabled
We all know that yoga is a healthy practice to integrate into your daily life. When you practice yoga, you just feel better. In addition