10 Business Technology Resolutions for 2013 With the New Year already upon us you’ve probably already thought through some of your business goals for the year, but you should also consider some technology resolutions for 2013. Here are ten to consider: Review Your Data Backup and Restoration Strategy If you don’t have a backup strategy, [...]

A few days ago Amazon announced that you can now provision Microsoft Server 20012  on their flagship cloud computing platform EC2. This is great news for customers deploying Windows based cloud servers. Windows Server 20012 is only a few months old and has some great features. The ability to run it on Amazon Web Services [...]

Here at Slate we are excited to announce our new referral network program. Earn cash for yourself, help your business associates gain that technical edge, and best of all help St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital! By joining our referral network and recommending partners, associates, or professional contacts, you can help them enjoy worry-free IT and [...]

The Slate Technology Group is on the hunt for an IT rock star! Skills, personality, and motivation required. Duties Include: · Provide end user support onsite, by phone and remotely · Administer and maintain Windows networks · Administer and Maintain routers and firewalls · Setup and support virtual servers · Maintain Microsoft server clusters · [...]

I am very excited about Windows 8 but for some reason it seems to have overshadowed another major release to manufacturing. Windows Server 2012 was also released to manufacturing this week. I have not spent as much time as I would like testing the beta/RC versions of Window Server 2012 but the little bit of [...]

This week Microsoft reached a major milestone when they released the newest version of their flagship operating system, Windows 8 to manufacturing. This is pretty exciting for any fans of Microsoft or anyone who uses Microsoft products for business or personal use. I wanted to take a minute to highlight some of the main features [...]

This week RackSpace took a major step forward in cloud computing by releasing RackSpace Open Cloud which is a completely redesigned cloud platform that is based on OpenStack. Although I believe this release is far from what a open cloud platform can offer, it is a good start. I am a pretty big fan of OpenStack [...]