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Arthur C Clarke Predicts the Future in 1964

He nails it!

The Microsoft Store Experience

This weekend's trip to Fashion Valley Mall provided an opportunity to visit The Microsoft Store. I was curious how Microsoft is competing with Apple in the high end retail space. Here are some pictures: Overall The Microsoft Store was somewhat confusing from a retail shop perspective. There was a large space dedicated to XBox. That dedicated space had the strongest presence and clear message. The rest of the Store had a mix of hardware from different manufacturers (Sony, Dell etc) but the...

The cure for software upgrades?

A software upgrade can be a major disruption to a business. We've listed the revisions to Microsoft's core businesss products going back to 1995. Windows Servers Office Exchange (email) SQL (database) Windows 95 Windows NT (1993) Office 95 Exchange 5.5 SQL 7.0 Windows 98 Windows Server 2000 Office 98 Exchange 2000 SQL 2000 Windows 2000 Windows Server 2003 Office 2000 Exchange 2003 SQL 2005 Windows XP Windows Server 2008 Office XP Exchange 2007 SQL 2...

VMware View with PCoIP – Is this the cloud?

VMware View is a product that provides desktop performance levels to remote desktop clients. VMware View with PCoIP allows companies to deploy inexpensive, power efficient and virtually unbreakable PC's called thin clients to users while retaining a full dekstop experience with multi monitor setup, streaming video and fast video refresh. Company data can be securely locked away in a remote datacenter without users ever noticing a difference in their day to day computer usage. In the video ...

Securing your company data on an iPhone

2010-02-03 UPDATE: Google Apps can now remote wipe an iPhone and enforce security policies. Read more here. Apple has two three* ways to secure company data on an iPhone in the event an iPhone is lost or stolen. If you have a subscription to Apple's MobileMe you can now find a lost iPhone and/or wipe all of it's data from the MobileMe website. More info on the MobileMe capabilities are available on the Apple website. Many corporate users do not use the MobileMe service (which costs $99/...

Everything’s Amazing and Nobody’s Happy

Funny bit from the Conan O'Brien show puts the advances in technology in perspective. How easily we forget! Next time that webpage takes five seconds to load just remember, "IT'S GOING TO SPACE."  Enjoy.

Don’t Rely on your IT Guy

We could not have said this better ourselves so we are linking to a great blog post by Clayton Moulynox of Evolve IT Australia. Way to knock it out of the park Clayton. Don't Rely on your IT Guy

Social Networking Security

CRN.com has listed Social Networking as a top 10 Information Technology Security threat. CRN writes the following about Social Networking Threats. For the full article head over to State Of Technology Security: Top 10 Biggest Security Threats Social Networking Threats made the Top 10 list for the first time, coming in third place with 34.4 percent of the partner vote. But partners have acknowledged that social networking attacks pose a very real and serious threat. End users have been ex...

Social Media in the Workplace

According to a survey of 1,400 CIOs of companies with 100 or more employees, 54% said they now block employees from accessing social networking sites at work. Mashable cited this information from the study: Only 10% of those surveyed let employees use social networks however they please, while the remainder all impose at least some restrictions on usage, like limiting it to business purposes only. The survey, which was developed by Robert Half Technology, is consistent with other recent...

Fortinet wins SC Magazine award for Best Integrated Security Solution

Congratulations to Fortinet for taking home the SC Magazine award for "Best Integrated Security Solution" for the Fortigate 310B. In their review, SC Magazine stated: The FortiGate-310B appliance integrates firewall, AV, IPS, VPN, content filtering, anti-spam and traffic-shaping functions, or any combination thereof on a single, integrated security appliance. The multi-threat integrated security approach protects against threats both at the network and the application layer – eliminating t...