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In This Issue
Simplex-IT's 7th Annual Community Appreciation Picnic is Coming!
"Two-hour Targeted Training Sessions For Office 2013
August Webinar: Word - Columns, Graphics and Watermarks
Small Business, Large Cybersecurity Risks?
Virtualization Presentation now online
25 Posts in July!
Top SQL Server Forums
Cleveland GiveCamp 2014
Blogs, Blogs, Blogs...
Plain Funny
Issue: #76August/2014

 

  

It's all about the picnic.

It's all about the picnic.

It's all about the picnic.

Ok, it's not all about the picnic. First of all, let's look back. July was a busy month for us here at Simplex-IT (and me personally). First of all, for me:

 

1>     Survived the "Holiday Trifecta." First day: Julie's (my wife) birthday. Next day? My birthday. Next day? Our anniversary.

2>     A "relaxing" week on the shore of North Carolina (Kitty Hawk). Did I mention there were 17 various family members in one house? Yup, an interesting user of the term "relaxing."

3>     An afternoon at Kalahari Indoor/Outdoor waterpark! Well, ok, I just did a presentation of "IT Trends for SMB" and "Cloud Storage Strategies for the SMB." But I was really close to a Water Park!!

 

Here at Simplex-IT:

1>     Added 3 new clients who signed up with us for monthly services.

2>     Migrated 2 clients over to Office 365.

3>     Upgraded 1 client over to Server 2012 R2.

4>     Got deeper into Microsoft Azure

 

But you know, it's all about the picnic.

 

Yup, we're having our 7th annual picnic on Wednesday August 13th (see below). You really should come!!

 

RSVP HERE

 

Can you say "Drone?" No reason, just wondering<g>.

  
Bob 

  

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Simplex-IT's 7th Annual Community Appreciation Picnic is Coming! And You're Invited!

Mark your calendars for August 13 from 4:00-8:00pm and join Simplex-IT as we welcome friends and neighbors, clients, local business owners and fellow Chamber of Commerce members from Hudson, Cuyahoga Falls, Akron and Fairlawn.

 

Once a year in August we forego our regular monthly business-oriented Lunchinar presentation in favor of an open-invitation picnic celebration in the back yard of our Worldwide International Headquarters (5225 Darrow Road, Hudson). This year will be no exception.

 

Simplex-IT will be providing the beverages, hamburgers and hot dogs; you will be providing the essential "special ingredient" and camaraderie for which this annual event is becoming known.

 

In addition to the abundant opportunities to network with your peers...(Click here to read more) 

Simplex-IT Announces New "Two-hour Targeted Training" Sessions for Office 2013

Have you been frustrated with the traditional approaches to IT training your company has experienced? Typical complaints include:

  • All-day marathon sessions present too much information in one sitting
  • Too costly
  • Topics can be too basic, too complex or both!
  • Can't be customized

 If these issues sound familiar, this could be the group training program that finally and affordably turbo-charges your office's productivity!

 

Introducing Simplex-IT's New Customizable
 
"Two-hour Targeted Training" Program for Office 2013

Here's how it works:

  • Choose the individuals (limit 20) who will receive the training
  • Pick the application(s) from the Microsoft Office 2013 Suite - Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, OneNote, Visio, and Publisher - and the topic(s) on which you'd like to focus - for example, Mail Merge, Charts, Slide Animations, etc.
  • Have your attendees work with us to set the agenda - they get to choose what topics will comprise the focus of the training!
  • Topics chosen will be presented in a two-hour live, interactive webinar. No questions will be left unanswered!
  • Training is presented through the web. No time-wasting travel is required!

 

Click  here to read more.  

Announcing Simplex-IT's Complimentary August Webinar: Word - Columns, Graphics and Watermarks

Have you ever wanted to give your Word documents the punchier look of a multi-column layout? Would you like to know how to insert, edit and align graphics? Or use watermarks in the background of your pages? If so, now is your chance as Simplex-IT presents our complimentary August Webinar on Word: Columns, Graphics and Watermarks.

 

Plan now to spend an hour with our own Michele Bobola who will step you through some Word wizardry that you've always wanted to know about but were afraid to ask.

 

When: July 10 from 11:00am-12:00pm noon.

Where: Streaming Live Online

 

We hope you can participate in this one hour webinar. RSVP now and block out the time on your calendar.

RSVP here:  http://bit.ly/more-word-2013

 

Everyone who RSVPs will receive an email the morning of the webinar with instructions on how to log in to our webcast using Microsoft Lync (you do NOT have to have Lync installed on your computer!). So watch your Inbox! Questions? Feel free to contact us by email at John@Simplex-IT.com or call 234.380.1277.

 

Don't miss this informational, free webinar brought to you by Simplex-IT - your Virtual CIO - bringing Vision, Confidence and Strategy to your Business IT! 

  Small Business, Large Cybersecurity Risks?
Bob here.  I've had several speaking engagements in the past couple of months, and the topic of security for Small to Medium Businesses is consistently at the top of the list, especially in light of the combination of:
  
  • BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)
  • The proliferation of business applications on mobile devices
  • The lack of security on most mobile devices
  • The "convenience of impulse" most users show with mobile devices.

One of the other issues is "We're too small to be at serious risk."  And that certainly isn't the case (notice the Verizon report sited below).

 

Here's some additional useful info:

 

Click here to read more.
Virtualization for the SMB Lunchinar now online
July's Lunchinar "Virtualization for the SMB: How to Make Your IT Do More for Less!" is now online!

Check it out (mostly because it's Kevin Dutkiewicz, not Coppedge...so there's a chance it'll make more sense than usual):

Virtualization for the SMB: How to Make Your IT Do More for Less! by Simplex-IT
Virtualization for the SMB: How to Make Your IT Do More for Less! by Simplex-IT

 

 

Today's servers typically run at only 10-15 percent of their capacity, resulting in wasted resources, unnecessary hardware investments and data center sprawl. Virtualization, once available only to the largest of enterprises, helps you consolidate your applications on far fewer physical servers, thereby optimizing resource utilization and delivering up to 50 percent efficiency savings.
  

There are other compelling reasons why your business might want to look at using virtualization in your IT infrastructure. But, like almost everything in life, there could be drawbacks. We'll discuss the good, the bad and the ugly of virtualization for the SMB.  Find out if this approach to IT can benefit your bottom line!


 Non-Followers missed this from Simplex-IT in July!

If you don't follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook, you missed all of these 25(!) items we thought were interesting. 

 

Check them out by clicking here!

 

Top SQL Server Forums of 2014

Bob here.  Confession time.  We don't know everything.  I know, I know...it certainly seems that way sometimes to me as well (then I wake up).

 

As most of us know, the key to "knowing" everything is to know where to find out key information quickly.  And that means knowing the best places online (although we still Google, I mean Bing, I mean look for stuff as well).

 

Doug and I both work a lot with SQL Server.  Here's an article that includes a number of sites specifically aimed at Microsoft SQL Server.

 

Check them out by clicking here!

 

Cleveland GiveCamp 2014 a Success!

For the past several years both Kevin and Sarah Dutkiewicz have been very active in Cleveland GiveCamp.

 

GiveCamp is a really cool program where developers give up a long weekend to gather together and quickly develop web sites and applications for non-profits.  This year it was from 18-20 July, and once again hosted at Lean Dog on the shores of Lake Erie.

 

And once again Kevin posted a video about the event on YouTube:

 

 

Cleveland GiveCamp 2014
Cleveland GiveCamp 2014
  
  
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Blog updates from Simplex-IT over the past month

 
Remember to check out our blog:

 

Plain Funny #76

Seriously?  You think that if you're a Nerd, there's no way to be part of a music video?

 

Sigh...if only that were true... 

 

Talk Nerdy To Me (Jason Derulo Parody)
Talk Nerdy To Me (Jason Derulo Parody)

 

We'd love to hear feedback about this!  Send comments to Bob@Simplex-IT.com, or call us at 234.380.1277!

 

Sincerely,

Bob Coppedge
Simplex-IT LLC