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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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Tags: Managed Services · Microsoft · Servers

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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Tags: Managed Services · Microsoft · Servers

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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Tags: Dallas Data Center · Managed Hosting · Managed Services · Microsoft · Servers

Palo Alto Networks Selected as Global Entrepreneurial Company of the Year!

July 26th, 2010 · No Comments

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 [...]

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Tags: Firewalls · Managed Services · Security

Palo Alto Networks: ‘Read-Only’ Facebook

July 2nd, 2010 · No Comments

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 [...]

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Tags: Firewalls · Managed Services · Security

Debunking the “If It Ain’t Broke, Why Fix It?” Myth

June 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Of course we’ve all heard of the saying “If it ain’t broke, why fix it?” And really, to some degree, that saying holds true.
When it comes to technology, though, reality favors the opposite. You might have hardware right now that’s a bit old by industry standards but is still working, so there seems to be [...]

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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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Tags: Backup · Business Continuity · Disaster Recovery · Managed Hosting · Managed Services

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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Tags: Business Continuity · Managed Services

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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Tags: Backup · Business Continuity · Disaster Recovery · Managed Hosting · Managed Services · Storage

Five Reasons to Consider Managed Services

March 4th, 2010 · No Comments

Managed IT services are the technology solution of choice for large businesses, but many small and medium businesses remain resistant to considering this approach. Below are five reasons you may want to change your mind.
Reason #1:  You need to control costs. In today’s economic environment, IT budgets have been slashed-but a cut in IT spending [...]

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Tags: Business Continuity · Managed Services