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Tech-savvy criminals have thought of with a new way of scamming us out of our money. In a twist to “phishing” (when spoofed websites are used to trick users into surrendering passwords or credit card numbers), “vishing” is when phone calls using spoofed caller ID numbers hide the identity of the caller and trick people [...]

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It’s March again, and many hoops fans are once again in a frenzy – creating fantasy basketball drafts, watching streamed basketball games, and researching basketball trends, rumors, and other related information. That’s “March Madness” for you.
Most of the activity of March Madness is internet based, with gambling and betting at an all-time high, especially as [...]

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While the internet is a vast resource for all sorts of information, data, and other useful things, there are aspects of it that aren’t so desirable. Viruses, for instance. They wreak havoc in your system, destroying files, crashing the operating system – generally making life much more difficult. But if you thought that viruses were [...]

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CRN recently celebrated their 20th Channel Champion Award ceremony where the Vice President and General Manager of Dell Global Commercial Channels, Greg Davis, accepted the 2010 Network Storage Award during the XChange Solution Provider conference that was being held at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles.  This award is regarded as the “people’s [...]

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A lot of discussion has been taking place around here lately pertaining to the relative merits of Fiber Channel vs. iSCSI for shared storage in virtual environments.  As I have mentioned in a previous post, we just deployed a new 10Gb iSCSI environment using EqualLogic and VMware.  Now that we’ve had some time to collect [...]

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ShoreTel’s Outbound Call Campaign IVR Application is a powerful ShoreTel-integrated solution that allows businesses and organizations to communicate and interact efficiently and cost-effectively with their customers.  The campaign accommodates a wide variety of industries including dental and medical offices, utility companies, schools, and governmental entities.  It is a flexible notification system that leverages existing ShoreTel [...]

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Gartner RAS Core Research’s note “Defining the Next-Generation Firewall” focuses on how “firewalls need to evolve to be more proactive in blocking new threats, such as botnets and targeted attacks.  Enterprises need to update their network firewall and intrusion prevention capabilities to protect business systems as attacks get more sophisticated.” (Gartner, 2009)
What exactly is the [...]

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With the continuous proliferation of data and its increasing importance to business, it has become critical to implement measures to safeguard it. One such measure is to make sure you have a data protection, backup, and recovery system in place. The threat of data loss from hardware failure, malware, or disaster is very real. A [...]

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What are the key technology lessons that small and mid-sized businesses can learn from large enterprises?
Be proactive. Be prepared. Take security concerns seriously. Always watch for ways to cut costs.
That just might sum up the advice that enterprise-grade IT shops would give smaller businesses about how to avoid costly IT mistakes.
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Is it time for you to consider a server for your business? This question was raised recently by Rhonda Abrams, a writer for USA TODAY’s Small Business section.
According to Ms. Abrams’s article, if your business is growing and you have more than two people in your business, then you should definitely consider buying a server. [...]

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