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Why Microsoft is Betting the Farm on Windows 8

Microsoft is betting the proverbial family farm on it’s next generation of Windows.The folks in Redmond hopes that everyone will fall in love with Metro for tablets, and phones, and rush to upgrade their PC’s as well.

In last weeks edition of Business Computing Weekly, I  dedicated a fair amount of time discussing Microsoft C.E.O. Steve Ballmer. In a short clip for this years CES, that I included in the show, Steve stressed the importance of Windows 8 in the coming years ahead for the company.

Business Computing Weekly # 344

Let’s be clear Windows 8 is huge deal for Microsoft, in fact it could be the most important version of Windows in the history of the company. Why? It goes something like this. A few short years ago, 95% of devices connected to the Internet were PC’s, today that percentage is 80%. It is now anticipated that in a few short years the number will be 20% or less.

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Save 25% Off GFI MailArchiver, EventsManager and WebMonitor Through February 29th 2012

Due to the overwhelming success  of our December 2011 25% off MailArchiver promotion, FrugalBrothers Software, Inc. has partnered with GFI Software to extend our sale on MailArchiver and in addition offer GFI WebMonitor and GFI EventsManager at 25% Off through February 29th 2012.

So what’s the catch? Simple really, the discount applies to new licenses of the software, version upgrades, and additional licenses. The discount does not apply to maintenance contract renewals or subscription renewals. The offer is not valid with any other offer. For more information call Bruce at (260) 724-2748.

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3 Reasons Why You Need Email Archiving

This guest post was provided by Casper Manes on behalf of GFI Software Ltd. GFI is a leading software developer that provides a single source for network administrators to address their network security, content security and messaging needs. Learn more about email archiving.

Thursday, 05 January 2012 15:16

If there’s one thing an Exchange admin is used to doing, it’s monitoring disk utilization on their mailbox servers. Users hoard email like gold, and as mailbox databases increase in size, backups take longer, restores can exceed recovery time objectives (RTO), and servers can run out of disk space. Admins might look to quotas to reign in runaway mailbox sizes, but those that implement quotas soon find that all this does is force users to move email to PST files, which brings a whole new crop of problems. Performance problems, corrupt files, and data loss all pop up, all that email is still consuming disk space; they’ve simply shifted the load from the mailbox servers to the fileservers. Fortunately, there’s a better answer to the problem of email storage. Email archiving can solve all of these issues without introducing any of the problems associated with other ways to manage email storage. By bolting on email archiving to an existing Exchange infrastructure, users can continue hoarding email, database sizes can remain manageable, and admins can focus on more important issues. Let’s look at three of the best reasons why you need email archiving.

1. Unlimited mailbox sizes

We may as well get the users’ concerns out of the way first, as they are the most direct cause of problems associated with all that email. Email archiving provides users with another place to store all the email they want to keep. This other place is simply made up of less expensive disk space than what your Exchange mailbox servers use. It remains available to your users in Outlook. It can be searched. Users can move email into and out of the archive manually or using rules. You can set up automatic archiving that moves mail based on subject, date, etc., to the archive. The email remains available to the user. This is not the same as archiving email in a PST. Email archiving is server side technology and has none of the problems of PSTs. There’s no risk of data loss that comes with storing PSTs on the local hard disk; there’s no performance hit or data corruption risks from storing PSTs on network shares either. This is a 100% server-based, centrally managed solution.

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Top ten security threats target banks, Amazon shoppers, Adobe reader

Phishing campaigns once again proved to be among the most significant threats, with scammers targeting  Chase and  Barclays customers, as well as launching malware attacks against  Amazon shoppers expecting holiday packages, according to GFI Software’s December VIPRE Report, a collection of the 10 most prevalent threat detections encountered during the month

“The threats we uncovered last month illustrate the consistent reuse of tried-and-true attack methods slightly modified to target new groups of potential victims,” said Christopher Boyd, senior threat researcher at GFI Software.

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Business Computing Weekly # 343

This week our topics include the Dell XPS 8300 PC, The ATI Radeon 6770, Office 365, CompanionLink 5, Google Cloud connect and the new Visio PCs.
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