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Hackers Use JavaScript To Infiltrate Your System

October 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Business Continuity, Dallas Data Center, Dedicated Servers, Disaster Recovery, Firewalls, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Security, Uncategorized, Virtualization

JavaScript is a very popular programming language used in many websites, making your web experience more dynamic and interactive. However, hackers can exploit JavaScript and use it to infiltrate your system.
It makes the web experience very dynamic, enhancing the interactivity of many websites – you’ll see it everywhere, from Facebook to the most obscure sites [...]

Get Efficient Results Using Managed IT Services

October 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Cloud, Colocation, Dallas Data Center, Dedicated Servers, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Security, Servers, Storage, Uncategorized, Virtualization

Utilizing IT Managed Services allows entrepreneurs to concentrate on their company’s core competencies, resulting in an increase in productivity which translates to increased revenue.
The term Managed Services is defined as “the practice of transferring day-to-day related management responsibility as a strategic method for improved effective and efficient operations”. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managed_services) While large corporations regularly choose this [...]

Trials and Tribulations of SharePoint 2010 Deployment

October 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Dallas Data Center, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Microsoft, Servers, Uncategorized

We recently deployed SharePoint 2010 for our internal use and for collaboration with one of our partner companies. For those of you that aren’t familiar with SharePoint, it’s a great utility to use for internal collaboration, document sharing, meeting planning, email notifications, etc. It can also be used for collaboration with sister or partner companies. [...]

Tabnabbing Poses a New and Significant Security Threat

October 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Dallas Data Center, Dedicated Servers, Firewalls, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Security, Uncategorized

A new threat to computer security has been discovered in which tab browsing vulnerabilities are exploited to fool users into divulging passwords and other sensitive information.
Dubbed as “tabnabbing”, the vulnerability was discovered by Aza Raskin, the creative lead for the Mozilla’s Firefox browser and co-founder of Songza, a music search engine and jukebox. Tabnabbing fools [...]

Managing your rack…

October 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Colocation, Dallas Data Center, Data Centers, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Servers, Uncategorized

For those of you who work daily in server rooms and data centers, you’ve probably seen how messy your rack can become. Cables start growing additional branches and servers and network gear seem to get lost in the jungle. This is especially problematic if you haven’t memorized the exact rack location of every server you [...]

Why Backing Up Your Data is Important

October 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Dallas Data Center, Data Centers, Disaster Recovery, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Security, Uncategorized

Data is important to any business, and losing it can spell disaster, which is why it is important to always have backups of your files and information.
Let’s begin with a simple question: How important is your data to you? Think of all the information you have in your computers – all your databases, spreadsheets, documents, [...]

October is CyberSecurity Awareness Month

October 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Dallas Data Center, Data Centers, Firewalls, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Security, Uncategorized

You’re Invited
October 2010 is an important month for IT and cyber security, and you are invited to join us in advancing the cause of online security.
To Support National CyberSecurity Month
The cyber threat has become one of the most serious challenges we face. America’s competitiveness and economic prosperity in the 21st century will depend on effective [...]

MicroSoft Alert — Critical Product Vulnerability

September 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Dallas Data Center, Dedicated Servers, Firewalls, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Microsoft, Security, Uncategorized

Yesterday, as part of Microsoft’s ongoing commitment to protect its customers with security updates and the latest guidance on the threat landscape, the company released MS10-070 as an out-of-band security update. The update addresses a vulnerability in ASP.NET, as described in Security Advisory 2416728, and carries a maximum severity rating of Important and an Exploitability [...]

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Tags: ASP.NET·Microsoft·MS10-070·Security·Windows

Disaster Recovery and Documentation

September 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Dallas Data Center, Data Centers, Disaster Recovery, Managed Hosting, Managed Services

These days, more than ever, maintaining your IT infrastructure is a must. We’ve become such an “E” driven society, that failure in your technology infrastructure could mean doom for your business. In my last post about disaster recovery, I shared some pretty interesting facts about what I found from an article by Paul Chilsom, “Ten [...]

Protect Your Company From Social Engineering Attacks

September 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Dallas Data Center, Data Centers, Firewalls, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Security

Threats to the security of your organization can not only come from malware, hacks, and network attacks, but also in more subtle ways. One such method is called “social engineering”.
Be aware that hackers have another tool in their toolset that employs a particularly subtle, insidious way of compromising the security of your systems and network. [...]

Calculating Your IT’s Real Cost

September 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Colocation, Dallas Data Center, Dedicated Servers, Managed Hosting, Managed Services

Hidden IT costs can be stifling your company and you just don’t know it. It’s important to assess what those costs are and find a way to help your business perform better.
In this day and age, few businesses (if any) can survive without an IT arm. Every business, big or small, needs someone, or preferably [...]

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

September 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Colocation, Consolidation, Dallas Data Center, Data Centers, Dedicated Servers, Disaster Recovery, Firewalls, Green IT, Linux, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Microsoft, Routers, Security, Servers, Storage, Switches, Uncategorized, VMware, Virtualization

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 [...]

Small Business Server 2003 to 2008 Migration: Part 4: The Migration

August 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Dallas Data Center, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Microsoft, Security, Servers

One of our Systems Engineers has written a four part series that we will be posting over the next two weeks in order to inform you of all you need to know in regards to a Small Business Server 2003 to 2008 Migration.
Microsoft advises that this migration is meant to be a live, during business [...]

Small Business Server 2003 to 2008 Migration: Part 1: Discovery

August 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Dallas Data Center, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Microsoft, Servers

One of our Systems Engineers has written a four part series that we will be posting over the next two weeks in order to inform you of all you need to know in regards to a Small Business Server 2003 to 2008 Migration.
What do you think of when you hear the phrase “Small Business Server [...]

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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) [...]

DDC Puts Cloud in Motion

June 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Dallas Data Center, Dedicated Servers, Firewalls, Managed Hosting, Managed Services, Security, Servers, Switches

Dallas Data Center is proud to announce that Motion HR has put their trust in us by choosing to host their SaaS offering, CloudHCM, at DDC. We are running their SaaS offering using some of Dell’s new R710 servers, firewalls from Palo Alto Networks, and Cisco switches. Their environment is set up in a full [...]

Disaster Recovery — An Increasingly Important Aspect of Your Business

June 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Backup, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Managed Hosting, Managed Services

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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