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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Disaster Recovery — Important Aspect of Your Business

July 21st, 2010 · No Comments

As networks and devices become increasingly complex, more and more things can go wrong. As a result, disaster recovery plans have had more intricate.
Is yours good enough?
According to Jon William Toigo, the author of Disaster Recovery Planning, 15 or 20 years ago a disaster recovery plan might have consisted of powering down a mainframe and [...]

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Backup, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity: 3 Plans You Can’t Afford NOT to Have

June 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment

Companies sometimes think that disaster planning is only for larger corporations, but recent changes in technology make such planning affordable for almost all business sizes. In fact, businesses today can’t afford to be without such planning.
As a business owner, you should have three goals when it comes to disaster planning: ensuring that you never lose [...]

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Tornados and Floods…are you prepared?

May 18th, 2010 · No Comments

Ever wonder what it would look like if your business were destroyed by a flood?  See firsthand what the Pep Boys location in Nashville caught on their security camera in early May.
What about a tornado?  Watch this clip to see what impact a tornado can have on your business.
Both of these film clips should serve [...]

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Brad Paisley Sings the Blues…

May 11th, 2010 · 2 Comments

Not even the rich and famous are immune to disasters so don’t think that it can’t happen to you.  Just take a look at country singing sensations Brad Paisley and Keith Urbanwho are two of countless musicians that will most likely lose millions of dollars on performance gear due to the historic floods in Nashville [...]

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Is your backup solution really working?

March 19th, 2009 · No Comments

How reliable and secure are your backups? Are you using tape drives? When was the last time somebody actually changed the tapes? How much is your businesses data worth to you? These are some of the questions that I’ve been asking people as I talk to them and the scary thing is that most of [...]

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