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7 Things Nonprofits Should Know About Virtual Desktops

TechImpact

With a virtual desktop, everything that you see on your computer screen (the operating system) is actually located on a server rather than on your computer’s local drive. Virtual OS systems are shared. Rather than having one OS to a system, an OS can be distributed to multiple computers. Disaster recovery.

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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. This virtual desktop solution connects to a nonprofit or school’s existing computer system very quickly and allows older computers to run Windows 7 and Windows applications as well as new PCs. What this means? Adobe Creative Cloud.

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

3rd Sector Labs

Because moving data and software systems into the cloud changes an organization’s technology risk profile, but it doesn’t eliminate risk. So recognize this: any software system that you access over the Internet is exposed to security risk from hackers. “I’m in the cloud” … I think … maybe.

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Tech Policies for Virtual Teams: A Leader’s Responsibility

Non Profit Quarterly

Sharing passwords, shadow IT—and for those who don’t know what “shadow IT” is, essentially, it’s staff members, users, basically going out and evaluating and purchasing and implementing IT applications, programs, systems that have not been approved or been reviewed by anyone in either management or the executive level. It’s very important.

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