IT should not be all about technology. We’ve been striving always to put business needs and policy. That said we end up with a lot of specialized applications through different units in our institution. There’s a growing challenge to support in-house applications. Problems like managing data synchronization and application integration are some of the common [...]

A friend asked to help out his colleagues business to setup an ecommerce website. Small businesses due to constrained IT expertise and budget usually starts out with the minimum ecommerce web hosting available. The initial goal is to reach as much customers with minimum cost. Small businesses have the tendency to hire some PHP web [...]

The Internet in a way influenced changes in the advertising industry. Big traditional media advertising companies like Walt Disney Company, AOL, News Corp., and others have been evaluating their strategies. It’s known that advertising market is one of those that are badly hit by the financial recession. Businesses scramble to get much from their advertising [...]

There’s a popular saying from computer geeks which goes like – “If it’s ain’t broken don’t fix it”. This month our Windows 2000 computer server which host MSSQL 7.0 Database crashed several times. Thus, I consider putting in something new. I thought that it would be the time to upgrade to a newer MSSQL version. [...]

I got an SVOA Warrior C2D 29300A computer CPU as replacement for my crashed old computer. I have installed Ubuntu Server 9.04 Linux on a breeze, but I still need to update some files from the Internet. I am behind some monitored network which requires authentication to browse the Internet. To get pass through this [...]

When my seven (7) year old Windows XP desktop computer crashed, I got a replacement computer CPU. An office mate insisted on getting an IBM or Dell computer, but due to budget constraints, I got SVOA computer. The brand is not very popular, but I am happy to have it. Some SVOA Warrior C2D 29300A [...]

Internet technology has complemented globalization in marketing products. A business not using the power of the Internet to reach prospective customer and clients is behind the competition. Studies by LinkedIn Research Network/Harris Poll shows that Internet advertising leads media campaigns while print advertising trailed behind. With Internet announcing to hundreds of news and media outlets [...]

The IT department is in constant review when it comes to outsourcing. Job reclassification and other steps to stream line the workforce was done. Computer repair or IT related skilled worker is still in demand. Most management had identified that an IT skilled worker would be essential in maintaining a lean organization. Thus, it would [...]

Power failures and power fluctuations are computer system killers. Every computer have uninterruptible power systems installed, but sometimes unthinkable things do happen. We’ve been hit by power outage as usually, but what’s surprising is our Dell PowerEdge 2550 computer server lost power. The Dell PowerEdge was placed on a server rack which have it’s own [...]

The Internet has played an important role in a world has become more multi-disciplinary and more interconnected. The global economy has turned businesses to use the power of Internet Marketing in reaching their clients. It’s very obvious that the Internet of today has transformed the way people learn about and shop for products. A decade [...]