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April 2008
In
this issue...
►Managed
Services
►How Bill Gates Uses Office
►Protect Your Data
►Storage/Disaster Recovery
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Congratulations
to Joel Katcher of All Heart Staffing for winning the
$50 Community wide Gift Certificate for stopping by our
booth at the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce’s Open For
Business Expo! Enjoy Joel!
Tired of lugging your back up tapes around?
Looking for off-site storage/disaster recovery
solutions?
Call Erb’s to find out how we are helping businesses
like yours simplify the data back-up process AND secure
vital company information!
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so
most people don't recognize them.
-Ann Landers
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Managed
Services
What is it and is it right for my business?
Erb’s Managed
Services program allows us to remotely monitor your
network 24 x 7 x 365 so potential issues can be
addressed before they become a problem. We become your
IT department, in cases where you do not have someone in
place, or we can enhance the staff you already have. We
offer a variety of programs, so we are sure to have
something to fit your needs.
Is it right for your business? Ask yourself the
following:
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Do
your employees need to retrieve information
from a centralized server or database, on a
regular basis? |
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Do
your employees, and therefore your business,
rely heavily on email communication?
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Does your network have issues every now and
then? Have you had “downtime” this year? |
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Do
you recognize the financial impact of your
network being “down” or the cost of losing
important company or client data? |
If you
answered yes to any or all of these, call Erb’s today to
learn more. We can help identify your specific issues
and go over ways we can help. |
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Office Hours: How Bill Gates Uses
Office
Written by William (Bill) H. Gates,
chairman of Microsoft Corporation.
Reprinted with permission from Microsoft Office.
If
you visit my office, you will probably notice right away that I have
three large flat screen displays that sit together and are synchronized
so they work like a single very wide display. The large display area
enables me to work very efficiently. I keep my Outlook 2007 Inbox open
on the screen to the left so I can see new messages as they come in. I
usually have the message or document that I'm currently reading or
writing in the center screen. The screen on the right is where I have
room to open up a browser or look at a document that someone has sent me
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I spend the majority of my
time communicating with colleagues, customers, and partners. As a
result, Outlook is the application that I use the most. I receive about
100 e-mail messages per day from Microsoft employees, and many more from
customers and partners.
Read
more
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Preserve and Protect Your Data
Summary
As the amount of data being created continues to increase, and that info is
accessed and shared by more people, SMBs can't afford to ignore the need for
data protection.
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Small and medium businesses are powered by information.
Should your business lose that information or even suffer an interruption in
access, it can have serious consequences. When it comes to protecting their
electronic data, some SMBs feel they are at a disadvantage because they lack the
large budgets and dedicated IT staff that many large enterprises enjoy. While
this may be true, that doesn’t detract from the fact that SMBs face the same
fundamental data protection concerns as large businesses, as no business is too
small to be immune to data loss. As the amount of data being created continues
to increase, and that info is accessed and shared by more people, you can’t
afford to ignore the need for data protection. |
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