Bad Hires Can Cost You. Eliminate Hiring Decision Risks.

By George Black on June 22, 2009

Hiring decisions are fraught with risks and can impact the decision maker’s world in major ways. Each hire brings costly and time-consuming tasks of orientation, training and indoctrination. The reason for a hire is most certainly to perform a set of productive tasks, and if the hire is unable to perform, then ...

Disaster Recovery Toolkit: Can your Email Server Weather the Storm?

By 3coast on June 9, 2009

If you were unfortunate enough to experience Hurricane Ike, how did your email server fare? Not everyone can afford to keep their servers in a nice, safe datacenter or colocation facility. Does that mean your business is subject to your building’s physical power or Internet connection? The answer to that ...

Disaster Recovery Toolkit: Business Must Go OnDR & Colocation

By 3coast on June 4, 2009

Business continuity and disaster recovery planning are all about a company’s ability to survive and continue operations in the face of physical and environmental events, such as natural disasters (fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, etc), network outages, disgruntled employees and computer viruses. Critical business technologies – telephone, email, Internet, corporate applications, databases ...

Disaster Recovery Toolkit: Stay in Touch After the Storm

June 1, 2009

Hurricane season is officially here. Businesses are now planning and refining their disaster recovery and business continuity plans to prepare for potential disruptions. Companies need to make sure and investigate a few specific areas – offsite backup, colocation, email continuity and data recovery. A voice-over IP (VoIP) telephone network and ...

Disaster Recovery Toolkit: Knock, Knock. Who’s There? Your Data

By 3coast on May 26, 2009

Without access to your business’s mission critical data, productivity as a whole could come to a screeching halt. For years, businesses have relied on tape backups to secure their primary data repository. While the technology associated with these types of solutions continues to become more refined, one aspect of this process ...

Hurricane Season is Here. Is Your Business Ready?

By 3coast on May 21, 2009

It’s that time of year again…hurricane season is upon us. With the effects of Hurricane Ike still fresh in Houston’s memory, what are the lessons learned when it comes to securing the integrity of your business? While history continues to repeat itself, a disaster’s long-term effects on a business can be ...

Three Opportunities to Capitalize on Your Business Continuity Plan

By 3coast on May 14, 2009

Smart companies along the U.S. southern coasts are testing their business continuity and disaster recovery plans in preparation for the upcoming storm season. For those who have outgrown their plans or struggle with outdated procedures, refining the plan is a top priority. Companies invest time, money and resources to create solid ...

Creating the Winning Resume

By George Black on May 6, 2009

No matter what the ads say, using a print shop’s resume service is not the fastest path to the next best job. With resume fraud running rampant, employers are becoming more savvy about the most frequent fraudulent claims on resumes. Most companies perform background and substance abuse checks, and sometimes ...

Earth Day Special: How IT Can Go Green

By 3coast on April 22, 2009

Companies continually seek new ways to go green with efficiencies, recycling and building improvements. How can IT help make business more eco-friendly? For companies with applications running on multiple servers, virtualization is a great way to maximize computing resources, reduce power consumption and eliminate server room expansion. Virtualizing your server environment allows ...

Broken ERP Implementations: Putting Business Back Together

By 3coast on April 14, 2009

Remediating a failed ERP implementation may be the answer to salvaging a broken, stalled or underperforming enterprise system. Each type of implementation failure and subsequent remediation project is approached with a different strategy. The goal is to economically get business operations and technology back in sync, quickly and effectively. Broken implementations are ERP systems ...

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