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Dallas Data Center Partners With The Planet to Deliver “Colo By The U”

September 8th, 2010 · No Comments

HOUSTON, September 7, 2010 – The Planet, the global hosting leader, today announced that Dallas Data Center (http://www.DallasDataCenter.com), a provider of Colo By The U, is the company’s newest referral partner, and joins its growing portfolio of referral agents within the Partner Plus program. Through the partnership, The Planet provides colocation services from its wholly [...]

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Lessons Learned from the World Cup

August 13th, 2010 · No Comments

The recent fever over the FIFA World Cup made unsuspecting victims an easy target for malware makers, spammers, and scammers using the sport as a means to spread nefarious software or lure users into money-making scams.
It seems the entire world was in the grip of the 2010 FIFA World Cup fever as several countries vied [...]

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Relief from “USB Device Not Recognized” Errors

August 9th, 2010 · No Comments

Are you getting a “USB device not recognized” error for a USB mouse, keyboard, or other USB device? Already tried normal fixes, such as uninstalling and reinstalling the driver, but it’s still not working? A possible solution may surprise you.
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Prepare Your Business for Hurricane Season: Part 3: Has your business planned ahead?

July 16th, 2010 · No Comments

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, [...]

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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

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 [...]

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Prepare Your Business for Hurricane Season: Part 1: How much could your business withstand?

July 12th, 2010 · No Comments

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 [...]

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Business Impact Analysis Made Simple

June 28th, 2010 · No Comments

Business impact analysis is an often misunderstood component of your business continuity plan—but it doesn’t have to be.
First, let’s review business continuity planning, which is simply the creation and validation of a plan for how your business will recover critical activities after an extended disruption, such as a disaster.
Business impact analysis is one of the [...]

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Handy Tips for Internet Connection While Travelling

June 23rd, 2010 · No Comments

If you travel for business, chances are you need to connect to the Internet while on the road. Here are some tips to help:
Set up wireless access. If you travel frequently, sign up for a wireless data plan from your service provider. Depending on the features of your mobile phone, you can use it as [...]

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Dallas Data Center……no flood here…..

June 10th, 2010 · No Comments

Recently there have been several articles written about a datacenter flooding in Dallas.  I’d like to point out that this was a “datacenter located in Dallas”, not the business named Dallas Data Center as one might have been led to believe based on the subject lines of numerous articles written about the disaster.  Here’s a [...]

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How Managed Services Can Help You Weather the Recession

June 4th, 2010 · No Comments

Industry analyst IDC predicts that the global economic recession will have a dramatic impact on small and mid-sized companies, but that doesn’t means these companies will stop spending on information technology (IT).
“Small and mid-sized businesses…will be increasingly interested in the productivity gains made possible by advanced technology,” said Raymond Boggs, vice president of SMB research [...]

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Disaster Recovery — An Increasingly Important Aspect of Your Business

June 2nd, 2010 · No Comments

As networks and devices become increasingly complex, more and more things can go wrong. As a result, disaster recovery plans have had to become more intricate.
Is yours good enough?
According to Jon William Toigo, the author of Disaster Recovery Planning, 15 or 20 years ago a disaster recovery plan might have consisted of powering down a [...]

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Hackers Employing Sophisticated Techniques to Trick Users

May 31st, 2010 · No Comments

Hackers are employing increasingly sophisticated techniques to scam users into downloading malicious software. For instance, today’s hackers and malware authors have begun using so-called “doorway pages” – web pages optimized to rank highly in results for common search engine queries.
These pages often feature trending or hot topics to show up favorably in search results, and [...]

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Personal IT in the Workplace: Bad for Your Business?

May 28th, 2010 · No Comments

Consider this:  according to research by technology analyst group Gartner, beyond 2010 end users, not the IT department, will be responsible for 50 percent of business IT procurement decisions—ultimately bringing and running their own systems on company networks. Meanwhile, according to management consultants Accenture, around one-third of today’s new generation of workers (a group they call [...]

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Why You Can’t Survive Without a Disaster Recovery Plan

May 26th, 2010 · No Comments

It’s simple: Businesses that suffer data losses usually fail as a result.
That’s according to a study by the Department for Trade and Industry, which found that 70 percent of small businesses suffering a major data loss are out of business within 18 months.
What this means is businesses have failed to protect themselves from a plethora [...]

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Why Investing in Technology Can Actually Save You Money

May 24th, 2010 · No Comments

Money is tight and hard to come by, and a lot of companies are looking to cut costs and sacrifice the non-essentials. For many, taking off a chunk out of the IT budget is one of the ways to try to save money.
However, when it comes to IT services, chances are a bit more investment [...]

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Tornados and Floods…are you prepared?

May 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Ever wonder what it would look like if your business were destroyed by a flood?  See firsthand what the Pep Boys location in Nashville caught on their security camera in early May.

What about a tornado?  Watch this clip to see what impact a tornado can have on your business.
Both of these film clips should serve [...]

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Common Craft: Complicated Made Easy

May 14th, 2010 · 1 Comment

For many people, learning begins by understanding the basic principles that drive a certain concept. Whether in technology or science or society, the world is filled with so many complex and complicated subjects that affect our lives, but remain largely misunderstood by the general public.
This is where commoncraft.com comes in. Owned and maintained by husband [...]

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Assessing and Documenting Your IT Needs

May 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment

You expect your computer to work when you turn it on. The last thing you want is to waste valuable time trying to get your email running or wrestling with a web browser that won’t load.
These are frustrations you surely have experienced, and chances are you will again. But you don’t have to. Or, at [...]

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Brad Paisley Sings the Blues…

May 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Not even the rich and famous are immune from disasters so don’t think that it can’t happen to you.  Just take a look at country singing sensations Brad Paisley and Keith Urban who are two of countless musicians that will most likely lose millions of dollars on performance gear due to the historic floods in [...]

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Are You Regularly Defragmenting Your Disks?

May 10th, 2010 · 1 Comment

When most people want to purchase a new computer or upgrade their current one, they focus on finding a CPU with the quickest speed, the most computing cores, or the most RAM they can afford. However, they may be overlooking the most likely reason for computing slowdowns: fragmentation in the disks.
Disk drives claim the [...]

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