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Happy New Year Pensacola... with Great Optimism! Tuesday, 05 January 2010 14:51 |  Written by Tim Shoop |  
I have read numerous articles about what to do during a recession. Most of them said to keep a clear head and start something new! They also said that if you have already started something, now is the time to improve on it and put all of your energy into nourishing it and growing it. That is the path that we decided to take. We launched Digital Boardwalk in 2007 as a side project, developing it during 2008 by trying all tools available to deliver the best solution to our clients. By the end of 2008, we settled on the tools that seemed the best to deliver our services faster and more efficiently than ever. It was a good system, but there is always something better. We use 20% of our resources to consistently research new tools and software to better achieve an end result. In 2009, we found a better tool. Unlike other Managed Services Providers in Pensacola and elsewhere, we have positioned Digital Boardwalk to allow consistent upgrades and improvements to our software and tools. While most Managed Services Providers got sucked into $80,000 lease programs with companies like N-Able and Kaseya using software developed years ago, we allowed Digital Boardwalk to utilize multiple Managed Solutions tools on a hosted platform that is constantly upgraded (each quarter) and improved upon. This gives us the flexibility to deliver a scalable solution to our clients that is always "state of the art", while the other providers spent too much of their money on what they thought was the Total Solution. With that said, I would also like to announce that we have just rolled out our Backup & Disaster Recovery Program. And in March, we should be rolling out our fully-scalable Cloud Computing Program. We love what we do! We love what we hear when we do it! Improvements will always be consistent with our offerings, and we enjoy the look on new client's faces when we deliver something unparalled by their prior experiences with IT Companies. We strive to be different! Take a test drive by allowing us to perform a FREE Site audit at your business. It won't cost a dime! And you might be surprised by what we find. Thanks, Tim Shoop CEO Preventing hacker attacks with network behavior analysis IPSFriday, 18 December 2009 11:27 | Written by Administrator |
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Tactical advice on defending against current threats, including viruses, worms, spyware and bots.  Deter enterprise network attacks by learning how network behavior analysis can be used to protect data. Understand the advantages and disadvantages of anomaly-based and signature-based protection and how to use them together to secure your network against complex hacks.
10 Practical Suggestion To Grow Your Business in 2010.Thursday, 10 December 2009 02:09 | Written by Administrator |
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As the aliens of the TV show "V" would say, humans are quite predictable, we are creatures of habit. One of our big habits are New Year's resolutions. We hardly keep them, or at least all of them, but they are good to at least write down and try to do for the first few minutes, hours, days or weeks of the New Year. Hopefully, out of the few we want to do, we actually continue to do one or two of them. There's a few simple things, related to technology, that I think every business should do:
Refresh your web site (more on this later). Create a blog (including developing an online audience on Twitter and Facebook for your business) Optimize all your computers (if you are using old computers with old software invest in new equipment) Educate yourself in leveraging the Internet more (such as online tools) and technology in general. These are just a few of many things you could be doing. What do YOU suggest? intuit, like few other businesses, has its hand on the heart beat of America's small businesses, specifically their finances, through QuickBooks. Intuit's Small Business New Year's Resolution Check List, with some input from Smallbiztechnology.com, includes: McAfee Releases Fastest, Most Convenient Way for Consumers to Fix Computer Problems, RemotelyThursday, 10 December 2009 02:00 |
Microsoft knew of just-patched IE zero-day for monthsThursday, 10 December 2009 00:59 |
Microsoft may not have hustled as fast as researchers thought when the company patched a zero-day bug in Internet Explorer (IE) just 18 days after exploit code went public. |
Kelley Blue Book drives toward savings with virtualizarionThursday, 10 December 2009 00:03 |
Auto valuation company Kelley Blue Book undertook a storage refresh this year that, combined with a server virtualization and data deduplication project, yielded a 250% return on investment. China expands porn sting by shutting P2P video sitesWednesday, 09 December 2009 21:12 |
Chinese regulators have taken a wide-ranging war against online porn one step further by closing a series of popular BitTorrent and other video-sharing Web sites in recent days. IBM opens new cloud lab while Microsoft reorgsWednesday, 09 December 2009 21:01 |
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Tech News First  Big Blue continues to be the only enterprise vendor bringing cloud services to its customer. A new lab in Hong Kong will focus on emerging markets and applications. Why Google Wants To Teach You How To Use Its ToolsWednesday, 09 December 2009 18:47 |
Google's suite of applications for businesses are pretty good. Low cost, many free in fact and relatively easy to use.
For example, I used Picassa to do a montage of photos with a sound voice over for the Small Business Summit (you can see it here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WPr_JRYOcY ).
See more Google solutions for business, here.
Google is starting to reach out more and touch its customers by introducing and educating them on Google's business products.
ZD Net writer Sam Diaz wrote about his experiences in attending a Google class.
Why The Search Engine You Use Matters: Google or BingWednesday, 09 December 2009 17:54 |
When Microsoft first launched Bing, it's latest search engine, I thought the name was stupid and didn't even bother looking at it. However, in hearing all the media fuss about Bing and Google trying to one up each other with various forms of innovation, it's clear that Microsoft is determined to do all it can to not only out market Google, but to also out-innovate Google, and that's not easy.
During the course of the day you probably use a search engine, dozens of times. I do. I use it for basic information search, news and specific business answers I need.
I'm a long time Google user and do not really know what it's like to use Bing or Ask. However, I'm sure there's many of you who love Bing.
One thing I do know, as the search engine becomes a more important tool for finding information on online, WHICH search engine you use is VERY important and will make the difference between finding your answer or not finding it. Between finding it in a few seconds or a few hours.
For example, the New York Tiimes writes about a new Google service that displays topical information under one URL. Instead of going from web site to web site a user is presented with a Wikipedia like interface of rich information.
Hackers find a home in Amazon's EC2 cloudWednesday, 09 December 2009 15:26 |
Security researchers have spotted the Zeus botnet running an unauthorized command and control center on Amazon's EC2 cloud computing infrastructure. Microsoft reposts Windows 7 download toolWednesday, 09 December 2009 12:36 |
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Tech news and business reports by CNET News. Focused oninformation technology, core topics include computers, hardware, software,networking, and Internet media.. Software giant restores a tool that allows Windows 7 to be more easily installed on older Netbooks. This time, though, it is under an open-source license. Personal data of 24,000 Notre Dame employees exposed onlineWednesday, 09 December 2009 12:35 |
In an embarrassing security gaffe, personal data on more than 24,000 past and present employees at the University of Notre Dame was made publicly available on the Web for more than three years. Notre Dame employees' data exposed online for three yearsWednesday, 09 December 2009 12:35 |
In an embarrassing security gaffe, personal data on more than 24,000 past and present employees at the University of Notre Dame was made publicly available on the Web for more than three years. TSA officials put on administrative leave after security lapseWednesday, 09 December 2009 09:33 |
The Department of Homeland Security has placed several employees on administrative leave for their role in the exposure of a document containing detailed information on passenger screening procedures used at U.S. airports. |
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