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7 Things Nonprofits Should Know About Virtual Desktops

TechImpact

Hardware costs will not only drop, but nonprofits can see decreases in costs from electricity, maintenance, and licensing. Disaster recovery. When you accidentally spill your coffee on your computer or drop your work laptop, you risk losing all the data on the hard drive. Access from outside the office.

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Chromebook for Nonprofits: Are Web Apps All You Need?

Tech Soup

This is a disaster waiting to happen. They can take them anywhere they need, access all their applications and data, never worry about malware, backups, disaster recovery, etc. Surely you still need your "real" laptop to run your donated copy of Adobe Creative Suite , right? Photo: slgckgc , CC license

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

Tablet sales are up 53% while laptop and desktop computers are down 11% from the previous year. It’s a new licensing arrangement in which Adobe products users download the software as they have in the past and use it on PCs, but licensing is on a monthly per-user fee basis. Here’s what it all looked like to me.

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My Organization is in “the cloud”! – What does that mean?

3rd Sector Labs

Instead of being installed on computers that are owned and operated by the organization, and located in their offices, software “in the cloud” is owned by another company, located on their computer network, and licensed to the customer organization for remote Internet access and usage. 5 – Storage and backup.

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Tech Policies for Virtual Teams: A Leader’s Responsibility

Non Profit Quarterly

And I said, well, what if somebody wants to watch Netflix on their company laptop? But if it’s eight o’clock in the evening, and I’ve got my organization laptop at home, and I want to watch Netflix, like, who cares, right? And I’ve been noticing that that was starting when we started bringing laptops to meetings.

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