A small IT service and consultancy outfit, NetCIO, bills itself as a sort of chief information officer for small clients.
"The (NETCIO) name was available as a domain, so it just kind of made sense," said Jeff Adzima, who's CEO of the company. "We specialize in networking for the SMB market space and act and we act as a manager of IT so it fits together."
The company, according to Adzima is, manages all the various layers of data computing and networking environment for its clients. What makes the full-service IT model for SMB clients most appealing is the backup and disaster recovery service his company provides.
Adzima calls it the all seeing eye of data.
"A disaster can be anything from a simple file deletion to an actual collapse of the building," he said. "At any given moment, 75 to 85 percent of a client's data is in electronic form. From confirmation of orders to billing to verifications of orders and sending invoices out, everything comes down to keeping that data in place."
Backup and disaster recovery and business continuity is cheap insurance, he said. Adzima said further that these types of services will become more crucial as businesses move into cloud computing.
"For us, it doesn't matter where that management takes place -- we're still going to be an outsrouced IT consultant and allow clients to process whatever they need in the technology arena. When everything can be restored, backed up and then called up at any time, technology becomes a profit center, not an expense."
Posted by Jabulani Leffall on September 06, 20100 comments
Sometimes, managed service deployments require easy ramp ups, but oftentimes there are long implementations depending on the particular SMB client or customer's IT organization.
It's important to be able to manage a transition to managed services and track
changes, costs and timelines as you go.
Project management is an aggravating corporate buzzword that is often used
vaguely to convey that nothing is actually getting done.
Project management software, however, can tell a different story.
Project management software is helping organizations budget and forecast
accurately for 2011. As businesses enter the fourth quarter, executives and even
small business owners are starting to determine where to allocate their IT
resources and budgets for the upcoming year. For example, Microsoft Gold
Certified Developer and Partner Project Insight's basic Web-based solution.
"In today's challenging economy, our customers are succeeding by having
visibility into their entire portfolio of projects, scoring these projects using
goal-based objectives, and allocating human and financial resources to the
projects that represent the best fit for their organizations. Project Insight
provides project teams with all of these capabilities and more," stated Jeff
Berkel, CFO of Project Insight.
A project management application fits quite nicely into a managed service
framework, especially if you want to offer proof of progress. Perhaps something to consider.
Posted by Jabulani Leffall on August 30, 20101 comments