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Cloud Services for the Novice

Novice is such a fantastic word; kindly, avuncular and incredibly descriptive in itself. In my mind, it evokes images of wide-eyed, hungry to learn students arriving on their first day of university, bespectacled and laden with weighty tomes, signing up to every society going in order to enjoy the true university experience. While in reality [...]

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How the Death Star could have been saved, if only they had Cloud Computing

Happy Star Wars Day. Inevitably on special days like this one we think of what might have been. How if one tiny piece of the jigsaw had been changed, the whole outcome might have been very different. Consider, for a moment, if the Empire had used Cloud Computing, for example. The progress of the Death [...]

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Kitting Out Your Virtual Office

What technology has done is give us another office. We have the tangible office, the one where we work, arrive every morning and place our computer, filing cabinet and so forth. The second is the virtual office. It’s where your work is kept, where most of your communication takes place, where you save your contacts [...]

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How the Cloud Boosts Business Collaboration

What difference could it make to your business if you could talk to clients all over the world, face to face? How about if you wanted to expand into different countries but wanted to stay in one base? Five years ago you would have had to commit a chunk of your time to air travel. [...]

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The Idiot’s Guide to Hosted Exchange Part Four –
How Does Hosted Exchange Actually Work?

Hosted exchange you say? Instantly flashbacking to my school French exchange visit and all my memories are flooding back. Ah! Those were the days! There we were, a group of rowdy young English school pupils eagerly sent off to France to be hosted by local families, completely unaware of what they were letting themselves in [...]

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Are You Afraid of the Cloud?

Like with many discussions, there are two sides of the fence when it comes to the Cloud. On one side are the advocates. They might be IT-re-sellers introducing their clients to the software and practice; they might be SME owners who have made the jump to streamline their business and cut IT costs. However there [...]

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The Idiot’s Guide to Hosted Exchange Part Three
- Advanced Security

I miss his letters, you know the ones; full of hope and love, promises of a successful future and all the money you can imagine in the world. Such beautifully written words and sentiments. All he asked for in return was your trust, your faith…oh and your bank details sent to his palace in Nigeria [...]

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The Idiot’s Guide to Hosted Exchange Part Two – Migration

Returning home from an extended trip 18 months ago, I came back to a lot of stuff.  Stuff packed in boxes, stuff lent to friends, stuff shoved at the back of cupboards and stuff forgotten about in lofts. Stuff I hadn’t been thinking about when I was travelling let alone needed in the seven months [...]

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Carry the Cloud in Your Pocket

Over the past generation, technology has changed faster and altered our lives and working practices more than at any time since the industrial revolution. Not convinced? Ring your dad or granddad and ask them what used to be on their desk and then tell them what’s on yours. If in fact you even use a [...]

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An Idiot’s Guide to Hosted Exchange

I’ve always had my head in the clouds: daydreaming, drawing and writing, leading a working existence of whim and whimsy and scraping by with the bare minimum when it comes to my technological life. Creative types don’t need to worry about such things: hard drives, drop-box, time machine? Not for me thanks. All I needed [...]

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