Archive for ‘January, 2010

Explore Your Options

by Aaron Magruder

Recently, I have seen so many small businesses purchases the first product or service that solves their immediate problem without exploring multiple options or considering long term plans. The natural response is they don’t know the options. Know that there are always options. Ask the person trying to sell you their product what other options [...]

March Madness: The Network Killer

by Aaron Magruder

ATTN Business Owners: Don’t make this IT’s problem.ATTN IT Departments: Business Owners will make this your problem.It never fails. Calls start flooding in about slow response times of critical applications. What just happened? Every year employees stream March Madness over the internet killing the companies internet bandwidth. The company policy doesn’t state they can’t stream [...]

What does Net Neutrality mean to Small Business?

by Aaron Magruder

Have you heard of Net Neutrality yet?  In short, it is the principal or idea of keeping all traffic on the internet for any person or source equal.  i.e. Big business web traffic gets no more priority on the internet as your small business instant message traffic.  The FCC defined net neutrality more broadly in [...]