Unified Communications

This blog is about Unified Communications…integrating the experiences you associate with the telephone—phone calls, voicemail, and conferencing…the work you do on a computer—documents, spreadsheets, instant messaging, e-mail, and calendars…all of which has the power to fundamentally change the way people work.

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Preventing Data Loss with Managed Services

August 30th, 2010 · No Comments

Implementing a client-server network and maintaining it with Managed Services can help businesses prevent data loss events, which lead 43 percent of such businesses to close within two years.
According to DriveSavers data recovery service, 43 percent of companies that lose data in a disaster never reopen, and 90 percent are out of business within two [...]

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Why You Can’t Survive Without a Disaster Recovery Plan

July 6th, 2010 · 1 Comment

It’s simple: Businesses that suffer data losses usually fail as a result.
That’s according to a study by the Department for Trade and Industry, which found that 70 percent of small businesses suffering a major data loss are out of business within 18 months.
What this means is most businesses have failed to protect themselves from a [...]

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Piracy Brings Malware According to Microsoft

June 11th, 2010 · No Comments

Quoting research from various industry analysts, Microsoft warned that users who install unlicensed or counterfeit software on their PCs are 73% more likely to suffer data loss or damage than users of legitimate software. The company also cited a 2006 IDC study that found that 25% of counterfeit software attempted to install unwanted or malicious [...]

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The Greatest Threat to Your Security May Be Your Employees

May 11th, 2010 · No Comments

While everyone is worried about security threats outside the company’s firewall such as hackers, viruses, and worms, research suggests that the greatest risk may come from none other than the company’s very own employees.
Not all of these risks are necessarily borne of malicious intent on the part of employees. Some risks may come from unwitting participation, [...]

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Are you Safeguarding your Data?

March 19th, 2010 · No Comments

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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