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Too Cheap to Meter?
In his recent book Free, Wired magazine’s Chris Anderson asserts that bandwidth and storage are “too cheap to meter,” which allows YouTube to let us reminisce and chuckle for free: While Anderson’s...
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The New iPad’s Achilles Heel
I was in junior high school when I first heard about someone rupturing an Achilles tendon. After I learned what it meant I remembering saying to myself “Boy, that is absolutely the last thing I ever...
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Mainframe 3.0
Great ideas in technology don’t change, though they do change forms. I started my corporate IT career near the end of the Golden Age for mainframes – just prior to PC’s taking off in corporateworld....
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What Are Some Healthcare Data Center Solutions Provided by DSS?
Electronic medical records (EMR) are here to stay in the healthcare world as a means to improve patient care, while lowering costs and freeing up space necessary to house all of those files. With...
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Does Business Have a Place in Social Networking?
There is a well-known divide between a person’s values online, and their values in a real life interaction. This strange gap between the association of business and social Internet sits in a very...
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You are the company you keep
Wise is the person who fortifies his life with the right friendships. – Colin Powell Whether it is a friend, spouse, business colleague or teammate, it is truly a blessing to be surrounded by the...
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3 Things to Consider for 24/7 Campus Support
It’s that time of year. Students are back. The phone is ringing. The request queue is full. And, IT teams at most universities are working heroic hours to make sure everyone is connected and...
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Bimodal IT and The Bear In The Woods
Each year at the annual Gartner IT Symposium, the gathering of 10,000 IT professionals anxiously waits through the pulsing music and flashing lights for Peter Sondergaard to hit the stage with the...
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Cloud Hosting – First Things
Cloud has become a very context sensitive word – it can mean quite different things depending on who’s doing the talking and what the situation happens to be. You may even already be wondering what I...
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Cloud Hosting – Models
This is part 2 of a in-depth look at Cloud Hosting. The series starts here. In the previous post we examined cloud types so that we could look at a cloud offering and understand its range of...
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Cloud Hosting – Services Part 1
This is part 3 of a in-depth look at Cloud Hosting. The first two posts in our series have been laying the groundwork for discussing something we can actually buy: Cloud Services. We’ve said that...
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20 Years! Happy Anniversary, DSS
Congratulations, DSS! Thank you to every employee, client and partner who has been a part of our growth and success. Success is a journey and not a destination. As we remember and celebrate the...
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Beer + Cookies = A Techie’s Dream Dessert
One thing that’s no secret about DSS’ers is that we are a bunch of foodies. Potlucks, Chili Cook-offs, Sundae Bars…you name it, we do it. Of course, this time of year is full of opportunities for...
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Protecting what matters: Insurance & Disaster Recovery
This is a great time to reflect on the past year and prepare for the upcoming one. Many of us make promises to become healthier, save money, or become more organized, in order to enjoy life more...
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Lights, Camera, Action: 4 Things About IT Sourcing
It’s the holiday movie season and distributors are releasing films for the upcoming awards season. CIO.com recently ran a feature article outlining ways running an IT project is like directing a...
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