January 2007
In this issue....
■
Welcome
■
Preparing for Vista
■
8 Signs You Need to Upgrade
■
Are Your Backups the Best?
■
Industry News Links
■
Just for Laughs
|
Industry News
The Top 10 Tech
Stories of 2006
2006 was a transition year, as IT giants positioned themselves
for a new era of global competition in the post-PC era. Here,
not necessarily in order of importance, are the IDG News
Service's top news stories of the year.
READ ARTICLE
Spam Volume
Jumps 35% In November
Spam volume soared another 35% in November, an e-mail security
vendor said Thursday, and the month saw spam tactics that
reduced the efficiency of traditional anti-spam filters.
READ ARTICLE
9 things IT
managers should think about in 2007
The new year represents an opportunity for IT managers to
evaluate their accomplishments and sift through their less
successful projects and relationships in an effort to get things
moving in the right direction. IT consultant Shannon Kalvar
offers some advice that will help you keep things on track in
2007.
READ ARTICLE
The Anderson
Forecast: 2007 Predictions From One of the Best
Analyst and futurist Mark Anderson, author of the influential
Strategic News Service newsletter and blog has made a career out
of making correct predictions. He claims a 93.5 percent success
ratio over the years he's been doing annual predictions.
READ ARTICLE
Just for
Laughs
|
|
Happy New
Year! |
|
Welcome to our first issue of the TOP Monthly Technology
Report!
The TOP
Monthly Technology Report provides information, news and
events about the growing and quickly changing Technology
Industry. We hope that you will find it useful and
informative. Please let us know if you have any comments
or suggestions.
We wish
you success and prosperity in the Year 2007!
P.S.
Don’t hesitate to forward this newsletter on to friends
and colleagues! |
|
 Preparing
for Vista
Learn how you can enjoy the benefits of the new Windows Vista
operating system without compromising your business' security.
After many years in
development, Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows Vista, became
available to businesses with volume license agreements on November
30. The home version of Vista will be available on January 30, 2007.
The Vista launch has been highly anticipated, as it took more than
five years for Microsoft to release this updated version of Windows.
Vista offers a variety of new features ranging from a streamlined
and enhanced user interface to faster data transfer for remote data
sources. Windows Vista is also being touted as a more secure
operating system. However, industry experts question the level of
security it is able to offer since Vista’s primary function is as an
operating system and cannot address all security issues including
viruses and Trojan horses.
READ MORE.. |
|
|
8 Signs You Need to Upgrade Your
Server
By Christopher Elliott
Reprinted with permission
from the Microsoft Small Business Center at
http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusiness.
 Your server hardware is a ticking time
bomb.
Don't
be alarmed. It may never actually "blow up" — which is to say, melt
down and take lots of data with it. But one day, sooner or later, it
will become obsolete. And for your business, that's potentially an
explosive liability.
"The older hardware is,
the more likely that a failure and loss of productivity will occur,"
warns Donald Hess, senior systems engineer at Entre Computer
Services, a systems integrator based in Rochester, N.Y. "In general,
a company can avoid big expenses by updating its servers every three
years. If it waits five years, then there's a big risk of being
compelled to upgrade many components simultaneously." Ouch.
READ MORE... |
|
|
 Are Your Backups The Best?
It might be time to change
from Tape to Hard Drives
Most
businesses back up their data to tapes. However, the current trend is to move
backups to hard drives instead. This new method has become popular because of
the introduction and low price of external USB hard drives. Drive-to-Drive
backup may be as simple as copying the contents of one drive to another.
However, companies can still enjoy the same flexibility, reliability and
automation that backup software offers by using the software to back up to drive
instead of tape.
READ MORE... |
|
