It was late evening last Sunday when my home phone rang. I don’t recognize the long distance number, so I decided to answer the call in case it was something important. The foreign voice that interrupted my evening was Windows Technical Department.–I had a rare opportunity to catch this all too common scam. Oh this […]
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Windows XP SP3 and Office 2003 will go out of support on April 8, 2014. If your organization has not started the migration to a modern desktop, you are late. Based on historical customer deployment data, the average enterprise deployment can take well over six months from business case through full deployment. To ensure you
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It’s Monday at 10:00 a.m. Suddenly, after a flash of lightning outside, your desktop computer screen goes blank. A few minutes later, the power comes back on, but your server won’t boot because it’s taken a direct jolt through the network cable plugged into it, which circumvented the Uninterruptable Power Supply from which it gets
It has been brought to our attention that your customers may have been recipients of letters that appear to be renewal notifications and/or invoices for DNS services related to their existing domain name(s). This particular notice is a deceptive sales tactic and not unlike other deceptive notices we have seen from third parties for domain
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Well, Windows 8 has a number of advantages over Windows 7—for example, Superior multiple monitor support, account synchronization, and faster startup times, but most people just can’t get past Windows 8’s radical shift in user interface. Some may even want to ditch Windows 8 altogether in favor of Windows 7 after spending a few days
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Virtualization the new norm Everyone is talking about virtualization. Virtualization is where you capture or copy an existing server or spin or load up a new server in a virtual machine on a single server. This single server if equipped correctly can contain multiple servers. Many small businesses need multiple virtual servers but like the
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In the beginning of time, we had tape backup. In the days before Terabyte hard drives, it was the only medium that would hold the large amount of data that constituted a backup. It did have some problems though… It was very slow It was, for the most part, a manual process. You had to
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The short answer NO. The long answer is it can be HIPAA compliant, PCI compliant and accepted as Standard Business Security if you use Remote Desktop (or RDP) across a VPN. We work with many healthcare providers and the HIPAA rules are pretty clear. Any access from the Internet or a remote location must be
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1: Phone services will continue moving to the Internet. It is no longer sci-fi or difficult to implement. Phone lines are running on internet bandwidth. We are seeing a renewed reliance on the internet for phone service. This is driven by lower cost bandwidth, great phone systems like Allworx, and failover lines in case of
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