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September 2011
In this issue
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Going Virtual |
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Critical Applications |
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Productivity Tips |
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Tablets & Smartphones |
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Archiving Strategy |
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Business Continuity Tip |
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Take Control of Information
with an Intelligent Archiving Strategy
used with
permission from Symantec
Summary
Such a strategy can help enterprises
confidently store, manage, and discover critical business
information across multiple content sources.
If your
organization is like most, you're probably retaining much more
information than you should. According to one study, too many
enterprises today are saving information indefinitely rather than
implementing policies that would enable them to delete unimportant
data with confidence.
Read more
Business
Continuity Tip
Storms
Brewing
Hurricanes are one of nature's most powerful and
destructive forces generating heavy rainfall, destructive winds,
flooding and tornadoes. Hurricane Irene became the first hurricane
of the 2011 Atlantic season as it moved over Puerto Rico early
Monday morning. Irene is projected to strengthen over the next five
days before reaching Florida and the Southeast U.S. between Thursday
and Saturday.
With several
storms brewing in the Atlantic, it is important to prepare now. Download the Hurricane Preparedness Checklist to
help prepare your business, employees, and community.
Please forward this newsletter to anyone else in your
organization who might be interested!
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Five Challenges You Need to Address About "Going
Virtual"
used with permission from Symantec
 Has any topic attracted more attention
than virtualization in IT departments these days? It's not
likely. Research bellwether Gartner Inc. has dubbed
virtualization "the highest-impact issue changing
infrastructure and operations through 2012." �
That
being the case, it's not surprising that virtualization
introduces new challenges into IT environments as they become
increasingly both physical and virtual. This Tech Brief looks
at five key challenges that you need to be aware of as you
deploy - or continue to deploy - virtualization.
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Ensure the Availability of Critical Applications
in a
Virtual Environment
used with permission from
Symantec
 A recent high-profile cloud computing
outage that temporarily knocked out a number of popular
websites served as a reminder that, while cloud outages are
rare, they can happen. Although service was restored for many
of the sites later the same day, the incident "sent a chill"
through the cloud community, according to one analyst.
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The
outage also underscored many of the findings of the most
recent Symantec Disaster Recovery Study, which
found that, for today's organizations, the growing challenge
of managing disparate physical, virtual, and cloud resources
is adding more complexity to their environments and leaving
business-critical applications and data unprotected.
Continue
reading to learn about the specific management challenges
posed by virtualization and the cloud and the steps your
organization can take to help reduce downtime.
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5
Productivity Tips for Windows
used with permission from
the Microsoft At Work site
 Print more easily, find files faster, and
send email right from your desktop!
1. Print from Windows
Explorer
If you need to print a document, let's say a
Microsoft Word document, there's no need to launch Word first.
Browse your hard drive for the file that you want to print,
right-click its icon, and then click Print. This will
automatically send the document to your printer without
launching Word.
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Tablets
& Smartphones: Business Tools or Toys?
Randy Johnson, Vice
President - Network Management Group, Inc.
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year of the Tablet? Has the mobile Internet finally
arrived? What business purposes are served by using
mobile Internet devices, and how can they help us better
serve clients? Whether you are working with products
from Apple, Motorola, BlackBerry, HTC, Samsung or a
myriad of other providers, access to the Internet, and
applications or "apps" drive the mobile world. Today,
you can use apps that give you access to paperless
documents from your office, provide clarification of a
business rule from a quick check of research, have the
ability to take a note to jog an idea, or to take enough
notes for an entire draft memo. |
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You can
initiate a print job from anywhere to shared Internet
printers, read a document that has been synchronized to the
mobile device after being scanned, read books, publications,
news sources, email, and consume content from almost any
popular source.
Read more |
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"I have never been jealous.
Not even when
my dad finished fifth grade a year before I
did."
- Jeff
Foxworthy | |
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