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Entries from March 2010

VMware Migration

March 11th, 2010 · No Comments

Our IT 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 single Gigabit [...]

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Tags: Managed Hosting · Managed IT Services · Network Solutions

IMPORTANT: Daylight Savings Issue

March 9th, 2010 · No Comments

Some Strata® CIX™ Systems Affected by Automatic Daylight Savings Time
Please be advised that on March 14, 2010, during the daylight savings time change, some Strata CIX systems will experience automatic time advances of more than one (1) hour.
Affected Features and Systems
When the “Enable Automatic Daylight Savings Time Change” feature is selected in the Strata CIX [...]

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Tags: Network Solutions · VoIP

Business Impact of a Major Data Loss Event

March 5th, 2010 · No Comments

Data breaches are costing companies more than ever, according to a recent study.
Data losses, which can result from theft or carelessness, are a downside of the information age. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), more than 35 million data records were breached in 2008 in the United States—47 percent more than in 2007.
How [...]

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Tags: Managed IT Services · Network Solutions

Proactive Computer Network Management Reduces Total Cost of Ownership

March 3rd, 2010 · No Comments

In today’s challenging economic times, many businesses like yours are reluctant to spend money. However, a modest investment in network maintenance can ultimately improve your profitability and reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) of your network infrastructure.
Your business depends on your network
Your revenue is directly tied to the availability and performance of your network, [...]

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Tags: Network Solutions

Vulnerabilities

March 1st, 2010 · No Comments

The web is indeed becoming a dangerous place. These days, your PC could become infected with malware or vulnerable to a hacker attack just by innocently browsing a website or opening an email. Last July 14th, Microsoft released six bulletins with fixes for at least nine known security vulnerabilities that put users at risk in [...]

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Tags: Managed IT Services · Microsoft · Network Solutions