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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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Common Vulnerabilities in Many Common Applications Still Exploited by Hackers

September 3rd, 2010 · No Comments

The continued exploit of many vulnerable applications that have been fixed by vendors for over a year highlight the need to keep software updated with the latest versions and patches.
A new report released by security firm M86 Security reveals a trend toward more sophisticated forms of malware in taking advantage of vulnerabilities in common software [...]

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Tags: Firewalls · Managed Services · Microsoft · Security · Servers

Fantasy Football — The Importance Of Technology

August 31st, 2010 · No Comments

Admittedly, I’m a total nerd.  I don’t pretend to dispute it.  My wife and my son might disagree, but he’s only 6 months old.  I say he still counts, but you might not agree.  That being said, I love being the nerdy guy and when it comes to having fun at the house, it can [...]

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

August 19th, 2010 · No Comments

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 [...]

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Small Business Server 2003 to 2008 Migration: Part 3: Planning and Testing

August 17th, 2010 · No Comments

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.
After you’ve made it through the Discovery Phase and Source Server Cleanup, you [...]

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Small Business Server 2003 to 2008 Migration: Part 2: Source Server Cleanup

August 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment

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.
After you’ve made it through your Discovery Phase you should have a very [...]

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

August 10th, 2010 · No Comments

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 [...]

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Microsoft “calls it quits” for Certain System Support

August 5th, 2010 · No Comments

We wanted to make sure that you were aware that Microsoft’s support, including new security updates, has ended for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Professional, and Windows Vista Release to Manufacturers.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR YOU?

Microsoft will stop providing incident support and will not release new updates, including security [...]

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Dangerous Vulnerability in Windows XP Help Center

July 23rd, 2010 · No Comments

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, [...]

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DDC Puts Cloud in Motion

June 24th, 2010 · No Comments

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 [...]

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How to Simplify IT and Unlock Resources

May 3rd, 2010 · No Comments

Businesses need to use the economic crisis as a time to reassess their IT needs and options. Server virtualization, consolidation, and energy costs are a good place to start.
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Tags: Business Continuity · Consolidation · Servers · Virtualization

SaaS Characteristics and Integration

March 23rd, 2010 · No Comments

SaaS has several characteristics that set it apart from other services:

SaaS allows the access and use of commercially available software through a remote, network, or internet connection. This means that the software is not installed in the subscriber’s computer, but rather on the SaaS provider’s server. This also makes the software accessible to the subscriber [...]

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VMware Migration

March 10th, 2010 · No Comments

Our Dallas Data Center team recently took over IT management for a customer who was experiencing poor VM performance in an environment which consisted of ESX 3.5 Enterprise with two hosts and an iSCSI SAN which was, for all practical purposes, homemade.  The performance issues appeared to reside primarily in the SAN which only had [...]

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Web Application Security a Growing Threat for Businesses

February 2nd, 2010 · No Comments

A new report by security vendor Cenzic shares research indicating that security flaws found in Web applications continue to grow and should be a major concern for many businesses as more and more depend on the Web for their business. According to the report, almost 80 percent of more than 3,000 software security flaws publicly [...]

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Cloud Computing 101

January 26th, 2010 · No Comments

With more and more people and organizations accessing the Internet, and as the potential uses of the web grow, the way business is done is naturally evolving as well.
One example of this is the emergence of cloud computing services. In essence, this is the outsourcing of an organization’s IT services to a different company. Everything [...]

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