Tag: cloud

I’d be Crazy To Not Have These 3 Things for My Computer

There are some things in life you just don’t want to go without: Seatbelts in a car. A batting helmet when you’re playing baseball. Sunscreen when you’re outside all day (well, at least for a fair-skinned chap like me!)
Same with your business computer. There are just some things you’d better have:
1. Battery backup. This is [...]

12 Comments by Shannon Tucker on August 1, 2011
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How the QuickbooksOnline blog stayed online when all else went down

Did you notice that blog.quickbooksonline.com stayed up even when quickbooksonline.com and quickbooksonline.intuit.com went down?
I’m talking about those few hours on July 14 when many of Intuit’s websites and online servers were unavailable because of a commercial power failure in San Diego.
I tried several Intuit sites and subsites during the episode, and that blog was the only Intuit [...]

2 Comments by Shannon Tucker on July 16, 2010
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More Reliable: QuickBooks Online or QuickBooks Desktop?

Last Friday, QuickBooks Online was offline for about a half day. There was quite a bit of Twitter traffic about it — people were frustrated who needed to access their books and couldn’t.
That is the downside of cloud computing: When there’s a problem with the cloud, everybody gets rained on. (Sorry, couldn’t resist that one.)
So [...]

2 Comments by Shannon Tucker on April 26, 2010
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