Business IT Systems

Business Intelligence is the organization's handle on the business information technology, plain and simple. Without Business Intelligence, organizations and companies will be lost in confusing situations and left behind in the industry without the knowledge of technology, systems, and up to date processes.  In the ever competitive business environment it is important to leverage “Best of Breed“technologies in order to improve and grow an organization's IT infrastructure. Read more...

Still Throwing Money at Old Technology?

By Alex Repola

Businesses and IT support specialists are notorious for continuously shoving money into old and outdated technologies. I believe that the real problem is that the saying "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" has been passed down generation by generation.

What business owners everywhere aren't realizing is that putting a band aid on a machine that you rely on to assist in running your business is a horrible idea. We all know what happens after a few days, the band aid falls off and we are stuck searching for another band aid that sticks better or we say screw it, I'll work through the pain. This is no way to run a business, and eventually it will hurt your organization.

QeH2 has taken a century of IT support and business experience and built a model completely different than anything in the greater-Denver area. Read more...

What’s Driving Your Company

Which came first, the donkey or the mule? Who drives your company bus, you, your systems, or your employees? Better yet, do you empower your employees or do you cripple them?
I doubt that you think you are crippling your employees but I’m here to tell you that many of the clients I meet with are doing exactly that.  Not purposely of course, in most cases not even knowingly.  How?  Horrible, outdated, poorly constructed technology.  Read more...

10 Best Year-End Tech Practices for SMBs

by Alex Repola
Earlier this month TechRepublic's Erik Eckel released an article titled, 10 Best Year-End Tech Practices for SMBs. After reading through the best practices, it really helped me to realize how helpful a basic "clean-up" could be and the benefits of giving your IT environment a little TLC. Here are the 10 things to keep in mind as you and your organization bring in the new year.

Restore backups to confirm operation
Review disk image inventory and status
Physically clean servers and PCs
De-fragment hard disks
Audit software licenses and media
Perform network stress tests
Audit user accounts
Confirm equipment inventory
Clean printers
Clean your cube or office

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Determining When to Virtualize Your Servers

by David Davis

Server virtualization isn’t just for big companies. Entry-level virtualization tools are free or low-cost, and there are many benefits to virtualization (including saving money). It’s not a question of “if” you should virtualize your servers; it’s a question of “when.”

Davis says following these five steps when determining if virtualization is right for your servers should help to alleviate some of the pains commonly associated with consolidating IT environments.

Step 1: Verify your motivation for going virtual


Most likely you will have to justify the reason to virtualize to a manager or a "C" level executive. Even if you don’t have to do that, you should be able to answer the “why” question for yourself with an answer that’s more concrete that “because it’s the next big thing.”

Step 2: Evaluate a virtualized solution

When selecting the right virtualization solution for your company, consider the following:

Don’t choose the “newest” or “cheapest” solution just because they are new and inexpensive.
Look for a solution that has been around for a long period of time to ensure the technology has been tested with a variety of applications.
Look for a solution that has been proven in productiveIT environments.
Choose a solution that offers flexibility and options to fit the needs of your company.

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The Trouble with Managed Services

By Quentin Jacksh

Managed Services are not designed around the small to mid sized businesses. These types of services typically only revolve around the uptime of a system. While this is important the costs for such services cannot be justified by organizations who need more. Read more...