It’s estimated that we spend about a third of our workday in the inbox. With the time invested in email and its increasing business importance, maximizing email communication and the time spent managing that communication can improve productivity and help workers stay focused. Here are a few ways you can tame your inbox and avoid becoming overwhelmed with email:
It’s estimated that we spend about a third of our workday in the inbox. With the time invested in email and its increasing business importance, maximizing email communication and the time spent managing that communication can improve productivity and help workers stay focused. Here are a few ways …
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May 17th, 2012 by Lizetta Staplefoote
Advocating is the fifth core
tool that designers can rely on in their role as agents of change. Consider this: At this moment, and for the past five weeks, I’ve been advocating; that is, I’ve been blogging to say something I think is important. And that’s advocating. Sometimes it’s easier to define something by defining what it’s not.
Advocating is the fifth core tool that designers can rely on in their role as agents of change. Consider this: At this moment, and for the past five weeks, I’ve been advocating; that is, I’ve been blogging to say something I think is important. And that’s advocating. Sometimes it’s easier to…
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May 17th, 2012 by Harry Max
Enterprise IT teams can relate to this scenario: 20 problems need IT solutions this year, but there’s only enough staff and budget to complete 15. What happens to the other five problems? They don’t go away. This is typically when rogue IT solutions enter the picture. SharePoint offers enterprises a full-featured platform that empowers end users to create their own solutions without circumventing IT or waiting for those other 15 projects to be completed. What does that mean for your organization? It means:
Enterprise IT teams can relate to this scenario: 20 problems need IT solutions this year, but there’s only enough staff and budget to complete 15. What happens to the other five problems? They don’t go away. This is typically when rogue IT solutions enter the picture. SharePoint offers enterpris…
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May 17th, 2012 by Jonathan Mast
Using a Content Delivery Network (CDN) can be beneficial for just about any type of site; however, you are going to see greater improvements for media heavy sites, such as photo blogs.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May 16th, 2012 by Matt Martz
This post was written and contributed by
Randy Beamer, Emmy-award winning co-anchor and photojournalist for
News 4 WOAI in San Antonio. Randy recently toured Rackspace’s Castle headquarters and immersed himself in Racker culture for
a piece that aired this week on News 4 WOAI at 6:30.
This post was written and contributed by Randy Beamer, Emmy-award winning co-anchor and photojournalist for News 4 WOAI in San Antonio. Randy recently toured Rackspace’s Castle headquarters and immersed himself in Racker culture for a piece that aired this week on News 4 WOAI at 6:30.…
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May 15th, 2012 by Christina Weaver
Before, access to infrastructure may have held back smaller design shops, but that is no longer the case with the cloud.
Cloud Sites is a powerful tool that can be used for larger applications and websites.
Before, access to infrastructure may have held back smaller design shops, but that is no longer the case with the cloud. Cloud Sites is a powerful tool that can be used for larger applications and websites.…
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May 15th, 2012 by Tarun Bhatti
CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the
CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-tos, interviews with industry giants and the occasional opinion piece are what you can expect to find. If that’s your cup of tea, you can subscribe
here.
CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-tos, interviews with industry giants and the occasional opinion piece are what you can expect to find. If that’s your cup of tea,…
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May 15th, 2012 by Ben Kepes
OK, so hosted Exchange won’t really make you thinner. That’s obviously false. But it is just one of many myths and misconceptions out there about hosted Exchange. Here are a few that we hear most often:
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May 15th, 2012 by Lizetta Staplefoote
SharePoint is becoming a more important part of Rackspace’s business, and as it continues to grow, we realize many of our customers might not know exactly how to get started with SharePoint. Here’s a primer with insightful tips to help you get started with SharePoint and get the most out of it.
SharePoint is becoming a more important part of Rackspace’s business, and as it continues to grow, we realize many of our customers might not know exactly how to get started with SharePoint. Here’s a primer with insightful tips to help you get started with SharePoint and get the most out of it.…
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May 14th, 2012 by Jennifer Mason
Since February, I have enjoyed writing about my experiences of attempting
to startup a business while working a day job. This past month, however, has been a bear for me. In the Rackspace office, our team has been going full tilt, producing content for our channels and campaigns. We have ramped up content production not just for the
Rackspace blog, but also have produced a large number of
videos and articles that live offsite. Outside the office, I have been planning a wedding along with moving and combining two houses into one smaller house and finding tenants for the houses we moved out of. Things have been busy.
Since February, I have enjoyed writing about my experiences of attempting to startup a business while working a day job. This past month, however, has been a bear for me. In the Rackspace office, our team has been going full tilt, producing content for our channels and campaigns. We have ramped up c…
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on May 11th, 2012 by Garrett Heath