What four legged 9 week old requires onsite management and 24×7 monitoring? Dallas Data Center’s newest team member! Meet Melville, a 16.5 lbs male, black lab who is a guide dog puppy in training from Guide Dogs for the Blind in San Rafael, California. I’m sure you are all wondering why our new team member [...]
Entries from July 26th, 2010
Dallas Data Center has grown by 4 feet
July 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Cloud Computing, Colocation, Dallas Data Center, Disaster Recovery, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Virtualization
Tags: 24x7·Cloud Computing·Colocation·Dallas Data Center·Disaster Recovery·Future Guide Dog·Guide Dog·Guide Dog Puppy in Training·Guide Dogs for the Blind·Lone Star Puppy Raisers·Managed Hosting·Melville·Onsite Management·Puppy in Training·San Rafael California·Virtualization·www.guidedogs.org
Palo Alto Networks Selected as Global Entrepreneurial Company of the Year!
July 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Firewalls, Managed Services, Security
Palo Alto Networks was just awarded the “2010 Global Entrepreneurial Company of the Year” in the Firewall Market by analyst firm Frost & Sullivan. The following criteria were used as a benchmark for all competitors:
Growth Strategy Excellence
Growth Implementation Excellence
Degree of Innovation with Products and Technologies
Leadership in Customer Value
Speed of Response to Market Needs
Frost & Sullivan [...]
Tags: 2010 Global Entrepreneurial Company of the Year·firewall·Frost & Sullivan·Managed IT Services·Palo Alto Networks·Security
Dangerous Vulnerability in Windows XP Help Center
July 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Managed Services, Microsoft, Security, Servers
A critical vulnerability in Windows XP has been revealed that involves the Windows and Help support center, a Web-based feature providing technical support information to end users. The vulnerability can potentially allow a remote hacker to take complete control of a victim’s machine. Systems running Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 using many major browsers, [...]
Tags: Internet Explorer 8·Managed Services·Security·Vulnerability·Windows Help Support Center·Windows Server 2003·Windows XP
Why Public File Sharing and P2P are NOT good for business
July 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Security
It’s not uncommon for many companies to use file sharing and peer-to-peer (P2P) platforms as a means to share information and data – especially when it comes to larger files that are difficult and sometimes impossible to attach to emails.
And why not? File sharing and P2P is easy to use, simple, and inexpensive. And never [...]
Tags: File Sharing·P2P·Peer-to-Peer·Security·Trojans·Viruses
Could You Benefit From Managed Services?
July 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Managed Services, Security
Managed Services provide enterprise-level IT capabilities without a large initial capital investment for a predictable monthly fee—which can be appealing to many businesses in today’s economic environment.
Are you a candidate for Managed Services?
Take our quiz below.
Managed Services checklist
We’re having difficulty staffing qualified IT professionals.
We’re concerned about the security of our data.
We’re concerned about the security [...]
Tags: Managed Services·Security
Prepare Your Business for Hurricane Season: Part 3: Has your business planned ahead?
July 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery
In light of the beginning of this year’s hurricane season, we have written a three part series to keep you aware of the impact that such an unforeseen storm could have on your business.
The best time to respond to a disaster is before it even happens. As we stated in Part 1 of this series, [...]
Tags: Backup·Business Continuity·data backup·Disaster Recovery·Disaster Recovery Plan·Hurricane·Hurricane Season
Prepare Your Business for Hurricane Season: Part 2: “I’m not in the flood plain so I’m not going to flood.” … Think Again!
July 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery
In light of the beginning of this year’s hurricane season, we have written a three part series to keep you aware of the impact that such an unforeseen storm could have on your business.
Many people think that bad things will never happen to them. They think that when a hurricane comes they won’t flood [...]
Tags: Backup·Business Continuity·Disaster Recovery·Disaster Recovery Plan·Hurricane·Hurricane Season·Uptime
Prepare Your Business for Hurricane Season: Part 1: How much could your business withstand?
July 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Managed Hosting
In light of the beginning of this year’s hurricane season, we have written a three part series to keep you aware of the impact that such an unforeseen storm could have on your business.
Hurricane season began on June 1st and will end on November 30th. During this time the 2010 Atlantic Hurricane Season forecast [...]
Tags: Backup·Business Continuity·Disaster Recovery·Disaster Recovery Plan·Hurricane·Hurricane Season·Managed Hosting·Storm
XP…The End is Nigh…
July 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Managed Services, Microsoft
Got a note from our Dell rep the other day…told us that as of October 22, 2010 they will no longer be offering Windows XP on any of their systems. As of right now they do not have a cutoff date that customers need to place their orders by for systems with XP, but any [...]
Tags: Dell·Managed Services·Microsoft·Microsoft's OEM Partners·Windows·Windows 7·Windows XP
Protect Yourself from Outbound Spam
July 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Security
A recent report, released by Osterman Research and sponsored by software vendor Commtouch, reports that the incidents of outbound spam is getting worse. The research firm interviewed 266 end users of internet service providers and 100 web hosting companies. Almost 40% of respondents have had their IP addresses listed on Real Time Blackhole Lists (RBLs) [...]
Tags: Commtouch·Managed Services·Osterman Research·Outbound Spam·Real Time Blackhole Lists·Security·Spam·Web Hosting
Palo Alto Networks: ‘Read-Only’ Facebook
July 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Firewalls, Managed Services, Security
Palo Alto Networks recently released their ‘read-only’ Facebook functionality that can be implemented with the next-generation firewall and is available now at no cost to their customers. The ‘read-only’ Facebook allows companies to enforce their Facebook policy by having finer-grained controls over their employee’s access to the popular social networking site. This functionality lets companies [...]
Tags: 'Read-Only'·Facebook·Firewalls·Managed IT Services·Palo Alto Networks·Security·Social Networking