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If you’ve seen the current commercials Microsoft is running, you may already have the feeling that cloud-based services are great for personal use, whether it’s for accessing your home media center from a distance or storing the family photos online. But as cloud computing becomes more widespread, it’s establishing itself as a viable and smart [...]

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More entrepreneurs these days are using Managed Services for their businesses. Why? Because it’s a good investment that’s sure to help increase a company’s revenue.
These days businesses are increasingly dependent on IT, making it essential to have experts to handle the regular maintenance of your IT infrastructure. However, most small and medium businesses cannot afford [...]

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Utilizing IT Managed Services allows entrepreneurs to concentrate on their company’s core competencies, resulting in an increase in productivity which translates to increased revenue.
The term Managed Services is defined as “the practice of transferring day-to-day related management responsibility as a strategic method for improved effective and efficient operations”. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managed_services) While large corporations regularly choose this [...]

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Hidden IT costs can be stifling your company and you just don’t know it. It’s important to assess what those costs are and find a way to help your business perform better.
In this day and age, few businesses (if any) can survive without an IT arm. Every business, big or small, needs someone, or preferably [...]

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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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UniComData Receives ShoreTel Top 10 Customer Satisfaction Award for 2010
UniComData Rated “World Class” in Customer Satisfaction by Independent Source
Dallas, TX July 30, 2010 – UniComData, Inc. today announced it has won ShoreTel’s 2010 Customer Satisfaction Excellence Award.  ShoreTel, Inc., the leading provider of brilliantly simple IP phone systems with [...]

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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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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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Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO, stated during an interview with InformationWeek that when it comes to cloud computing, Microsoft is “all in”.  He commented that the cloud growth, or “hockey stick” as he referred to it, is now taking off.  Over the past five years Microsoft has made a significant investment in their cloud computing products [...]

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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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