Issue 2 - October 2009

Proactive IT Solutions Save Money

Proactive IT Solutions help save small and midsized organizations thousands of dollars each year while improving service response time.

It is obvious that every small business must watch what they spend. Most people would argue that every single dollar that they spend must have an immediate and quantifiable return. Unfortunately, most organizations do not look at their IT service provider in this same light but they should. Usually, they see the amount they spend on IT as an expense. As something breaks, they make a phone call to their local IT person to come and fix it, and you know what that means to them; more money spent on something they wished they could spend somewhere else, or even put in their pockets.

The good news is that there is a better way to get the IT support you need, while also saving thousands of dollars each and every year. If you are like the other millions of small businesses that rely on their technology to keep their businesses running, it will also improve your efficiencies and reduce your downtime, thus making you even more profitable.

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IT Myths Debunked

In these difficult economic times, it is critical that firms maximize their budgets, reduce waste, and improve productivity any way they can if they want to survive and thrive. Too often, however, some very simple ways of achieving those goals are overlooked and this is especially true in the realm of Information Technology. The three areas of highest return are electricity, licensing, and system maintenance.

Even when such measures are considered they are often considered too difficult to implement. Recent advances in IT management systems have now opened the door to implementing these vital changes in a manner that has little to no impact on an organization's culture or business practices. Now that these tools are available, it is imperative that responsible firms revisit their IT practices to take advantage of them. Find out some ways to save by clicking here.

Cutting Costs Through Virtualization

Microsoft puts it quite bluntly, "virtualization is a technology that helps customers save money." Now that is definitely a universally appealing statement! With Microsoft's dedication to bringing virtualization from the "desktop to the datacenter," businesses can finally leverage the power and efficiency of their IT infrastructure to its fullest extent. We can now have truly dynamic datacenters whose functionality responds to the needs of any organization, as opposed to an organization working around the datacenter's limitations and burdening costs. Virtualization maximizes the utilization and capabilities of IT resources, allowing any organization to fully harness the power of their investment, save money and even reallocate their IT budget to other areas of their business. Click here to learn more about virtualization.

Trigon Tech Tips

PowerPoint is a great tool for getting your message across in a presentation, but it is often used incorrectly, and in turn does not help the viewers understand the message any better. Here are a few tips we put together to help you next time you need to present: (Click here to read more indepth):

Make the page layout and background consistent
Always include a title, an agenda, a questions slide, and an end or thank you slide
Use bullets rather than sentences
Vary the way you present that data by using charts and graphs

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