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With your Web site, always remember it's a two-way street. Your goal is to gain exposure and open a dialog with your customers, and increase your business and relationships.

There are many inexpensive or even free avenues of exposure. Social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, and Linked In can provide free exposure. Building your own RSS feed or blog if you have current information to compliment an e-mail newsletter. Twitter can be used for the rapid-fire updates, though this...

The new operating system from Microsoft is not all hype and is a worthy choice for new machines and upgrades.

- Up to a 15% performance increase over Vista on some machines especially those that are 64bit capable. - Less annoying administration with customizable "consent" confirmation to perform certain tasks. This does come at a trade off of security, however. You now have four levels of confirmation rather than just on or off in Vista. - Windows 7 Pro...

Because your business changes it is important that we stay current to offer you flexibility

- Expanded offerings in Linux with rapid dedicated server deployment - Content and knowledge management to help collect an organization's intellectual assets. - Desktop rental in Win XP and Windows 7 for business continuity

Recently, spam levels have increased by about 25% and we have seen an increased transmission of viruses being sent through email systems as well. With these higher levels, you will likely find a couple things:

1.) More spam in your in box. Because of the higher levels, even if the same percentage misses the filtering, it will seem like an increase in spam. Because of the greater quantity, we are also seeing greater variety. This poses a greater challenge for the filtration to keep...

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We are in the process of upgrading hamachi applications for all clients. This upgrade allows better configuration of networks and higher security. From the user side, this also brings some changes.

Hamachi now has two separate parts. The primary component is a service which runs in the background. This component constructs the network connections. The second part is the user interface. This does not load automatically, but can be started by going to your Start menu

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Virtual~Sands has added additional linux-based hosting and support for Violin Memory. Currently, they can be found on their site at www.violin-memory.com

In an effort keep the flow of email smooth there have been a number of changes and improvements made to the email system recently.

Recent Changes: 1.) Addition of a new server acting as a relay. This provides an additional non-blacklisted channel for email to various large ISPs with certain restrictions.

2.) Addition of reverse DNS on the primary server to comply with various large ISP's regulations.

3.) Additional support for remote backup and hot redundancy.

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