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IT Budget shrinking?.. Go Green!

By now we have all heard the of the pounding Wall Street is taking, huge investment banks are being devoured by larger commercial banks like Bank of America. Now I have a close friend that works for one of these global investment banks as an analyst, a bank that was about to be on the [...]

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Whos is attempting to attack your company?

Today with the advent of cost effective small business high speed internet access and movement of many traditional brick and mortar businesses now moving to the online realm. Companies are dealing with more and more data than ever before. More companies are also doing mobile computing via VPN and other remote access technologies. While some [...]

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Data Back-up and Media Storage

It’s not too often that I write a post designed for the consumer, actually to my recollection I have never written anything with mom and dad in mind. Even though we are geared more towards businesses, we still do a relatively large amount of consumer services. With that said, the usual problems that we deal [...]

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Open Source and Your Small Business

Open Source and Your Small Business

A few months ago I talked about using Open Source software in your small business. If I remember correctly I mentioned the fact that we use a decent amount of open source technology in our company. This week I decided as a proof of concept I would only use Ubuntu( one of the most popular [...]

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Virutalization Vs. Cloud Computing

These days the biggest buzzwords in the IT industry have been the expansion of Cloud computing and the major push towards virtualizing the traditional computing infrastructure. But with these two new concepts come questions from business owners like you and me and the biggest question without a doubt has to be “which one is better?” [...]

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Virtualization

I have mentioned virtualization in the past and have given overviews of how it can be beneficial to business. However what I noticed that when I try to explain it to customers even the ones that are pretty tech savvy are usually pretty confused as to how it works exactly, so I will try to [...]

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Windows 7

It’s been a while since I have written a post so I decided to write one. I have been using Windows 7  now since the release candidate became public and I must say I am loving it. But instead of trying to write a review I decided to repost one from one of my favorite [...]

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Is Linux right for your Small Business?..

It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted but in my defense I’ve been busy with work and some project for a couple of clients not to mention school. Well let’s get down to it. I’ve been doing a few deployments for small businesses for people like me who do their day to day business [...]

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Network MAnagement/Monitoring

” Hey why can’t I access the file server? and why is the network so slow today?” Hmm maybe you should have been paying closer attention to your network environment. This is probably one of the most over looked aspect of network administration. Being able to get a snap shot at what your network looks [...]

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Data Security, Do’s and Don’ts

Today received a call from my mother telling me that none of the computers in the house had Internet connectivity and also that the house phone wasn’t getting a dial tone. Of course because I am a professional I was able to narrow down the problem within a few seconds because I could hear the [...]

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