http://administrativearts.com/2008/09/03/questions-for-the-it-guy/ The art of being an Administrative Assistant. Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:33:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://administrativearts.com/2008/09/03/questions-for-the-it-guy/comment-page-1/#comment-231 Christa Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:31:56 +0000 http://administrativearts.com/?p=173#comment-231 Love your post!  I've been reading this blog for the past few months but this post was particularly interesting to me. I co-own a computer consulting business with my husband and I run the admin/marketing side.   We provide computer support and maintenance services to other small businesses.  It runs the gamut from server installations to automated maintenance and management of an entire network.   I have some suggestions on how businesses can save money on your IT costs:1) Have an outsourced IT company (like ours, of course!) rather than an in-house IT Director.  This is especially cost-effective for the 60 user or fewer business environments.2)  Run 24x7 automated management, monitoring & maintenance program on the network that does all the tasks mentioned in the post so that you get guaranteed defrags, anti-virus protection, temp file deletion, etc.  This is a very reasonable cost.  (Note:  If you want to try this for free for 30 days, log onto our website at www.axicom.net and sign up for the AxiGuard program.  Test drive before buying to see what's out there!  Since it's a remote service, it's not location specific.)3) Turn off your computer on the weekends.4)  Run VMWare on your server to save on energy consumption. Love your post!  I’ve been reading this blog for the past few months but this post was particularly interesting to me. I co-own a computer consulting business with my husband and I run the admin/marketing side.   We provide computer support and maintenance services to other small businesses.  It runs the gamut from server installations to automated maintenance and management of an entire network.   I have some suggestions on how businesses can save money on your IT costs:1) Have an outsourced IT company (like ours, of course!) rather than an in-house IT Director.  This is especially cost-effective for the 60 user or fewer business environments.2)  Run 24×7 automated management, monitoring & maintenance program on the network that does all the tasks mentioned in the post so that you get guaranteed defrags, anti-virus protection, temp file deletion, etc.  This is a very reasonable cost.  (Note:  If you want to try this for free for 30 days, log onto our website at http://www.axicom.net and sign up for the AxiGuard program.  Test drive before buying to see what’s out there!  Since it’s a remote service, it’s not location specific.)3) Turn off your computer on the weekends.4)  Run VMWare on your server to save on energy consumption.

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