How do you explain Virtual Servers to a layperson?
I am often asked to explain complicated technical issues to people that have not had the pleasure of reading thousands of hours of help screens and white papers.
In layperson's terms, imagine you are going to give a speech in front of a thousand people. They have loaded into the room and are waiting for your words of wisdom. However, you are in a traffic jam and running two hours late. So what do you do? Make the audience wait for you to arrive? Or, imagine having a person as capable as you standing by in the auditorium -- now, you email him the speech and he delivers it to the audience. (Yes, let's assume for my example, that the person is as capable of a speaker as you, but perhaps slightly shorter).
In my example above, the audience (i.e. your company users) gets the content of the speech (i.e. the data and applications) regardless of the person (i.e. the fileserver) that is delivering it. As in the case above, the sponsor of the speech (your IT department) has to "introduce" (i.e. Boot the virtual server) the new speaker.
(c) 2008 Steve Stern
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Friday, March 28, 2008
Time Management
Time Management means many things to many people. For the purpose of this article, we will focus on the "use of technology time." Why do we need to focus on the use of technology time when we bill by the hour? Well, perhaps we can enumerate a few reasons:
1) Spending too much time doing non-billable items means less hours to bill
2) Clients expect on-demand legal services -- if you can't generate a document in a reasonable time, your competiton can!
3) The Stern Formula of Declining Realization: "The greater the number of hours spent on a task, the lower your billing realization." For example, if you take two hours to write a letter you are more likely to collect for those two hours than if you take ten hours to write a letter.
4) The more time spent on a single task, the less tasks that can be accomplished.
5) There are only 24 hours in a day!
How do you use technology to save time?
1) Spending too much time doing non-billable items means less hours to bill
2) Clients expect on-demand legal services -- if you can't generate a document in a reasonable time, your competiton can!
3) The Stern Formula of Declining Realization: "The greater the number of hours spent on a task, the lower your billing realization." For example, if you take two hours to write a letter you are more likely to collect for those two hours than if you take ten hours to write a letter.
4) The more time spent on a single task, the less tasks that can be accomplished.
5) There are only 24 hours in a day!
How do you use technology to save time?
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You have found in this amazing ocean of information a humble buoy of technology information.
My personal goal is to provide a place where you can drop stories of technology use that promotes the practice of law. Please feel free to share "solutions" that have allowed you to be more efficient or service your clients better.
We will update the blog with a variety of subjects!
Thank you for your visit and we hope to hear from you often!
Regards,
Legal Technology Solutions, LLC. (www.LTSWEB.net)
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