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Amazon EC2 and S3 Cost Calculator

by on February 28, 2011 in Business Management, Cloud Computing, Virtualization

When setting up a Virtual Server and/or Cloud Storage in Amazon; One question that may be difficult to answer is: How much will it cost you? Amazon’s pricing is complicated. To un-complicate things I have made an EC2 and S3 Cost Calculator (You can download it at the end of this post) to help you [...]

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Pricing Managed Services (MSP Client Cost Calculator)

by on February 7, 2011 in Business Management, Managed Services

What should you charge clients for Managed Services? If you’ve already made a price model, are you 100% confident that it fits your client base? Unfortunately, a lot of companies end up over-charging or under-charging for Managed Services. By undercharging you lose profitability and face the difficult task of having to raise your prices, which [...]

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Why I chose Google Apps over Hosted Exchange for one Client

by on January 29, 2011 in Cloud Computing, E-Mail, Google Apps

Google Apps is my favorite Microsoft Exchange alternative and if your a small or medium sized business with a single domain you should consider making the switch. One of my clients was running Exchange 2003 and they were way over due for an upgrade.  One of the major things I wanted to do was pull [...]

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Why I chose Zimbra over Exchange for one Client

by on January 20, 2011 in E-Mail, Zimbra

For one client I chose Zimbra. Before the upgrade they were using an open source POP3 mail server that was limited in functionality and had a poor webmail user experience.  Initially Exchange Server was my first choice for messaging but after recently completing a network over-haul they didn’t have much of a budget left to invest [...]

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Microsoft Exchange Alternatives

by on December 1, 2010 in Cloud Computing, E-Mail, Google Apps, Zimbra

Not every company can afford Microsoft Exchange Server. Either due to server restrictions and/or licensing costs if you plan on investing in Exchange Server it can be a costly solution to your messaging needs. Throughout the years I’ve had to research Exchange alternatives numerous times for clients who didn’t have the budget for Exchange Server [...]

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Managed Services Contract Sample

by on November 18, 2010 in Business Management, Contracts, Managed Services

The following is a service agreement (“Agreement”) between (Your name and/or Company) and (Your client’s name and/or Company) 1. Term of Agreement This Agreement between _____________________________, herein referred to as Client, and _____________________________, herein after referred to as Service Provider, is effective upon __________, shall remain in force for a period of one year, and [...]

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