Posts by Rocket IT
Why You Need Backups for Your Backups
It’s 10:00 on a Thursday night. You’re in bed when you get a phone call. A pipe burst at your office, and there’s been some flooding. Your server room was affected, and now you need to recover your data. That’s what a backup is for. No problem, right? That’s not always the case. “34% of…
Read MoreMitigating the Cost of Long Commutes
Have you ever done the math on the cost of a long commute? For those of us with employees that travel to and from work every day, the costs are staggering. Consider this very common work commute scenario: Scott has a 45-minute commute to work. That’s 1.5 hours per day or 7.5 hours per week.…
Read MoreGetting Lost on the Mountain: Keeping Teams on Track
When I was much younger, my mom and my grandmother went on a trip together, just the two of them. As with many families, tensions tended to run high when my mom and grandma were stuck in the same enclosed space for a long period of time. This was in the days of atlases and…
Read MoreKeeping Your Company Moving Forward: When to Outsource IT
There’s an old saying, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” You’ve heard it a thousand times. Might have even said it a few hundred. But that proverb doesn’t sound as good when your car breaks down 1,500 miles from home. “Honey, did you ever get that tune-up?” If you’ve ever heard those words while…
Read MoreWhat Gets Measured Gets Done
There are apps for almost everything. Some wonderful. Others less so. Several of the apps play to the recently created insecurity in us all – the strange desire to get “Likes.” These apps are designed to make you strive to boosts the number of approvals your posts receive. Which begs the question: Who cares? Are…
Read MoreHas Technology Rendered Personal Connections Obsolete
Technology provides some amazing tools. We can contact friends and co-workers around the world with a push of a button. We can instantly send and retrieve data that once required trucks to deliver. We can monitor our business or home from nearly anywhere on the planet. But is there a downside? One of the most…
Read MorePlanning for 100 Years of Change
A couple of months from now, Rocket IT will be 19 years old. As that anniversary approaches, I’ve found myself thinking more and more about our legacy. No, not legacy. Legacy is the wrong word. The future. I’ve been thinking more and more about the future of Rocket IT. One thing that is certain is…
Read MoreInteresting Insights from 5 Million E-Mails
Baydin, the makers of an email plugin Boomerang, recently analyzed over 5 million emails that were sent and received by Boomerang’s users. Out of the 147 messages the average email user receives every day, only 12 require “substantial work.” Those 12 messages which require “substantial work” take up approximately 90 minutes per day! Most people…
Read MoreDon’t Take the Bait — Practice Link Safety – Hyperlink Best Practices
The Internet is full of friendly people. There are Nigerian princes who want to give us a piece of their oil fortunes, in exchange for some basic bank account information, or long-lost relatives coming out of the woodwork to wire us multi-million dollar inheritances. To say nothing of the generosity of strangers: just the other…
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