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Mobile computing has made many aspects of business much more efficient and done wonders to maintain customer relationships. There are benefits and drawbacks to all mobile computing platforms that need to be considered. In this post, we will examine a few of the major players in this arena.
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Welcome to the Technical Blog @ds-inc.com. This Blog was created to provide real world useful knowledge and to share interesting content related to Information Technology. Please continue to follow us as we steer you through the complex world of I.T.
This one is nothing new. IP telephony has been replacing analog PBX systems for many years, and will continue to do so. This technology is now available to businesses of all sizes, as opposed to being reserved exclusively for large organizations. If you have not already, consider this for your business. Here’s why…
(Forgive the bulleted format…)
This is going to be a short post… The basic message is as follows: Go get one.
UTM, or Unified Threat Management, was born out of necessity. The tasks surrounding the management of discreet firewalls, IDS/IPS systems, spam filters, inline virus filters and content management devices have become increasingly cumbersome. So much so that it represents a security risk. An overly complicated protection scheme increases the chances of misconfiguration, and therefore, exposure.
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Virtualization: How does it benefit me?
OK, this one is relatively quick and simple to cover… If you’re not familiar with the concepts of virtualization, I hope this will spark your interest.
A room full of servers, each consuming power, administrative and technical time, and generating heat which needs to be dealt with, which requires even more power, is hardly the most efficient scenario. Additionally, warranty, maintenance or lease considerations contribute further to the administrative burden.
Cloud Computing
Greetings, and welcome to the first in a series of 5 follow-up articles to my Mid-Year Top 5. First up: Cloud Computing. Let’s start with a concise definition and the evolution of cloud computing. Following this, I will discuss some of the benefits and drawbacks associated with it. I’ll close with a real-world example of a successfully implemented cloud-based service.
Well, here we are in month 6 already.
In this article, I will attempt to describe what I see as the five most beneficial trends we are seeing in business today. Where possible, I have included links to clarify my points. Future posts will analyze each of these technologies in greater depth.
I will discuss existing and emerging technological trends, what business conditions should exist to justify the investment in each, and things to consider before taking the plunge.
Autotask Community Live: Miami, Florida
I just got back from Autotask Community Live in Miami. As an IT professional, I’m extremely pleased that I did not miss this event. My initial thought while considering whether to attend or not was: ‘What could I possibly need to know about a product I already bought? Well, It IS in Miami, in spring….’
This line of reasoning undershot the significance of the event to such a degree that my thinking has changed drastically. Had it been held on the dark side of the Moon, it still would have been worth the trip.
So you have the latest virus on your network and it is currently propagating throughout your whole organization. What do you do? What should be the course of action? The best approach is usually an organized and tactical approach.
Informaiton Gathering:
You always want to know what you are up against. If you have a team of people in your IT staff then you would want to allocate one of those people to finding all of the information that they can about the current threat. Thing like:
- How does the current threat propagate?
- What malicious actions occur on infected machines?
- What specific traits or fingerprints does it leave on infected machines?
- Are there any utilities that can help you search and even remove the current threat?
- How can you get rid of it?
The rush to embrace Managed Services is in full swing… But what IT services are best suited to be fully managed by an outside entity? What IT services are not? How is a Managed Service engagement different from outsourcing? In this article, I will attempt to answer these and other questions that must be considered when deciding if a managed service is appropriate, and what to include in such an arrangement.
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You are considering a wireless implementation for your company or you are looking to upgrade an existing wireless network. What do you do? What do you need to know? In the past there was only one type of option for implementing a wireless network . The older type of implementation would consist of multiple wireless access points that had no real central point of management and would require configuration of every single AP. Today, there are many more options for architecting a wireless solution.
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