tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4588608855061258322009-02-21T04:07:38.996-06:00Your Outsourced IT Department - There When You Need UsDavid Stankardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05734919801362696425noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-458860885506125832.post-83819768195188100072008-07-22T11:02:00.000-05:002008-08-24T17:07:57.993-05:00

We've been working on a metro-e conversion for about a month now, and have found it to be mind-numbing difficult to work through AT&T's billing procedures. The actual metro-e network part is pretty straight forward, though. Going to move to a flat IP addressing scheme across all the links with some new layer3 switches. There are a lot of different vendors out there with good layer3 equipment, and

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Doing a large statistical database analysis project for a client for several weeks now, that has kept us fairly busy. Attempting to re-organize several disparate databases (including some that came in as Excel files) is always an exciting task. But analysis work is always fun to do.

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Alright - big break in the posts occured here, but things have been busy. Working on a new network system with an IBM RISC pSeries server. Been having to get my AIX learn on, and straighten out a lot of things that typically accumulate from lack of routine system maintenance - file buildup, queues not kept in order, that sort of thing. Hopefully the posts will begin occuring in some sort of

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An article in the Wall Street Journal today quotes a small business owner saying he found "that 70% of the workers in its 125-person headquarters watched videos on Web sites like Google Inc.'s YouTube and News Corp.'s MySpace for about an hour a day".Folks, 70% of 125 employees is just over 87 man-hours a day - the equivalent of having almost 11 people on payroll who do no work at all. Think

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Walt Mossberg's February 14th column at All Things Digital has a good preview of the upcoming Windows Vista Service Pack 1. It looks like a lot of download time and bandwidth (65 Megabytes worth) for very little performance gain.Mossberg says "based on my tests of Vista SP1, I believe that for most average consumers, it will likely be a nonevent, and for others it will be disappointing. For

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Networking with Vista can sure be exciting and frustrating. Things got moved around a lot from XP, and many times there seems to be no reason for the change. Such is life.When I went to the Network & Sharing Center (right click on the Network desktop icon and choose Properties) my network was not showing up. Couldn't see the other computers in my workgroup, and couldn't Map a drive. The first

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Windows Vista has a new "performance feature" called ReadyBoost. It allows the use of a USB storage device instead of a (potentially) slower paging file on your hard disk when you're low on physical memory (RAM). Since USB storage is faster than your hard disk drive, this is intended to increase performance. It’s important to note that the actual Page File is still cached on the hard drive, but

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I have been avoiding implementing Windows Vista for most of the common reasons: lack of device drivers, waiting for all the flaws to be fixed, waiting for software compatibility.However, I decided that 2008 was the time to "go live" with Vista on at least one production machine. And so far, Vista has lived up to its reputation for "why did they have to do this" complexity.With that being said, I

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I've been recommending server virtualization to clients for several years now. This technology can benefit any business with multiple computers typically running specialized tasks. Situations like having your domain controller on one PC, your accounting system on another computer, your shared directories on a third PC, and your email server on a fourth.Products such as VMware let you transform or

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It's Friday afternoon, the weekend before Christmas, and the urgent call comes in. A client has had a number of files deleted - person and time unknown - from a Windows shared network drive.People get this sense of confidence from having a Recycle Bin on their Windows desktop. They forget that network drives typically don't have this feature. And they're panicked, because they don't know if the

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We can provide your firm with the capabilities and experience in web design, web upgrades, training on content management solutions, and marketing support.We provide your business with cost effective, customized, and on-demand information technology expertise.Websites convey your company's image to world at large, and need to be not only functional, but look good, be easy to use, and fit with the

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With extensive experience in information security, we can work with your company to implement or review policies to safeguard your critical business information from outsiders, insiders, or natural catastrophe.From implementing firewall solutions to setting up network access policies to allow only "need-to-know" employees, we can help your business. We provide businesses with cost effective,

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We provide installation, upgrades, support and training for Servers, desktop PC's, and laptops. We have experience in server consolidation, VMware, archiving, and backup solutions.We provide businesses with cost effective, customized, and on-demand server expertise, and are experienced in Windows, Linux, and VMware environments.As a business owner, you are constantly faced with requests to

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We provide installation, upgrades, support and training for Network Infrastructure such as routers, wireless, switches, and firewalls. We can work with you to protect the health of your e-mail systems, servers, and user's PC's through the use of network anti-virus, anti-spam, and web content filtering software and appliances. We can also assist in cabling.We provide businesses with cost effective

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We offer over 20 years of industry experience in installation, upgrades, training, and support of:Network Systems, Cabling, Firewalls, Email Systems, & Anti Virus/Spam SolutionsServers, Desktop PC's & Laptops (Windows, Macintosh, & Linux)Website Development and MaintenanceSoftware ApplicationsWe can provide your business with cost effective, customized, and on-demand information technology

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This fall I began providing Macintosh support to a client. It has been a while since I have had a Mac client, but I'm seeing more interest in the platform over the last year.OS X works seamlessly with both Windows and Linux servers, and there is a lot to be said for not having to deal with the anti-virus overhead imposed on Windows users.The client has gone too long between technology upgrades,

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Welcome everyone! I have recently switched my website to this blog, to allow me to (hopefully) become more interactive with my clients. I hope that this format will allow me to keep clients aware of new technology and new areas we can be of assistance.

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