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Managed Services provide enterprise-level IT capabilities without a large initial capital investment for a predictable monthly fee—which can be appealing to many businesses in today’s economic environment.
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The near ubiquity of WiFi hotspots nowadays has led to great advances in access and convenience for many. It’s also a great boon for “road warriors” who do most of their work from the field.
However, few people understand the risks of using wireless hotspots. When you go online in open networks that don’t use a [...]

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A recent report, released by Osterman Research and sponsored by software vendor Commtouch, reports that the incidents of outbound spam is getting worse. The research firm interviewed 266 end users of internet service providers and 100 web hosting companies. Almost 40% of respondents have had their IP addresses listed on Real Time Blackhole Lists (RBLs) [...]

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With continued enhancements and new features being added to the system, ShoreTel is announcing new specifications and clarifications around the ShoreTel Unified Communication Enterprise Edition solution system capacities and server requirements.
 Changes to Workgroups
 ShoreTel has clarified the system’s workgroup capacity limits for agents allowed in a system. The maximum number of agents supported in the system [...]

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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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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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Microsoft is releasing an out-of-band security update to address the .LNK vulnerability described in Microsoft Security Advisory 2286198. MS10-046 addresses one vulnerability in Windows, which has a maximum severity rating of Critical and an Exploitability Index rating of 1. The security vulnerability affects all supported editions of Windows, including Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, [...]

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We wanted to make sure that you were aware that Microsoft’s support, including new security updates, has ended for Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Professional, and Windows Vista Release to Manufacturers.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR YOU?

Microsoft will stop providing incident support and will not release new updates, including security [...]

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Web-worker Daily shares some useful tips on how to improve your efficiency using dual monitors with your computer. Both Mac OS and Windows support dual monitors, and you can get two 20-inch monitors for less money than what it would take to buy a larger display. Read more
Published with permission from TechAdvisory.org. Source.

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Business impact analysis is an often misunderstood component of your business continuity plan—but it doesn’t have to be.
First, let’s review business continuity planning, which is simply the creation and validation of a plan for how your business will recover critical activities after an extended disruption, such as a disaster.
Business impact analysis is one of the [...]

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