Why backup online when you are already backing up on site?

Small Business IT network monitoring is a core activity needed to ensure uptime and productivity.  What follows is 4 reasons to do it remotely? 

As small businesses consider their Microsoft deployments, those doing upgrades often ask how to convert XP to Windows 7 while preserving data, files and programs intact.  We have discussed the benefits of Windows 7 in What Does Green IT Mean For Your Small Business?, but customers often ask why moving to Windows 7 creates an entirely new environment as compared to upgrading the operating system in place.

Small business owners and leaders often ask why their company needs managed service provider solutions if they already have an IT staff? 

Why do I need to upgrade my hardware now, you may ask, if it has worked well all these years?  This is a classic capital investment question and it is very easy to get confused by outlay costs, operating costs and tax consequences when making such a decision.

So you read "My ISP Gives Me An Antivirus Software Product. Why Do I Need Another?", selected the right anti virus solution and now you are wondering why didn't your anti virus software stop spam and infections?  Why did a particular computer in your office get infected?

Along the same lines as POP3 vs Exchange 2010 - How to Know Which to Choose?, an antivirus software product is often included as part of your Internet service.  Why then, should a small business consider purchasing additional antivirus products?

If you received e-mail service with your Internet service, choosing POP3 vs Exchange 2010 is something you may have considered.  Here is a guide to help your decision process as well as a brief discussion of Microsoft's Office 365 offering for e-mail.

We have looked at the benefits of desktop virtualization in Small Business Endpoint Virtualization - Smartphones, Tablets And PCs and what two flavors of desktop virtualization are in What is Desktop Virtualization? VDI vs. Session Virtualization.  Now we will answer the question, how does desktop virtualization work to improve productivity.

We touched on this topic in Small Business Endpoint Virtualization - Smartphones, Tables And PCs, but what is desktop virtualization?  For the sake if this discussion, endpoint and desktop virtualization refer to the same area, so as to not get lost in semantics, I will use the latter term.  Perhaps more than other types of virtualization, desktop virtualization has multiple deployment models including operating system virtualization and application virtualization.  Microsoft segments operating virtualization into Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), Session Virtualization and Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization.

Let's look at a simplified view of VDI and Session Virtualization to begin with from a use case perspective to see which technology is best suited for which business need.