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This will give you the peace of mind that services are running smoothly, not causing costly downtimes and loss of income due to system failures.

Earlier this month, it was realized that someone stole the source code 2006 version of Symantec security products.  If you are still using Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 and Symantec Antivirus 10.2, then it is strongly recommended that you upgrade.

In SharePoint, documents are typically stored in what's called Document Libraries.  Document libraries are basically a group of documents.  You can do much more with document libraries, but in this topic just know that it is a place to store a group of documents.

I'm sure everyone has heard of SharePoint sometime or other.  More and more people are talking about it, but no one really knows what it is.  It is easy it get confused about SharePoint because it is such a powerful tool that can be molded into nearly anything for your business. 

According to The Associated Press, La Niña could increase the number of hurricanes this season, click here for more information. As a result, this could raise the possibility to have more hurricanes hitting the Gulf State coastlines which in turns raises the risks of losing data and having downtime. This is more the reason why you should start investing in your Backup & Disaster Recovery plans to minimize the risks of losing your data and losing production.

CBM Technology.net can help you be proactive and have a successful recovery from any type of disaster from a technology stand point.  A successful recovery, depends on preparedness planning done today.  You have invested a large amount of time, money and resources to make your ventures successful and disaster preparedness has probably been put on the back-burner to face more immediate concerns. 

You may start hearing more and more about SIP trunking as the technology becomes more popular, but many people currently know little about it.  A SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) connection is a service that connects a company's PBX (simply a telephone system) to the public telephone network via the Internet.  The biggest benefit of using SIP trunking is the cost savings of not using analog or PRI systems.

Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a possible vulnerability in the Windows Help and Support Center function that is delivered with supported editions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. This vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web page using a Web browser or clicks a specially crafted link in an e-mail message. Microsoft is aware that proof-of-concept exploit code has been published for the vulnerability.

We now have digital video surveillance with DVR recording to monitor all of our entry points and to record who enters/exits our data center. 

There are a lot of viruses, worms, and malware out in the Internet world and it can be sometimes intimidating or worrisome to check your emails or browse a website.  But maintaining the health of computer is a little like maintaining your health.  You don’t eat or drink things that may be bad for you.  You stay away from potentially dangerous environments.  You perform daily and weekly personal maintenance or hygiene.  In this post, I will tell you how you can take better care of your computer.  Before you read on, keep in mind 99% of viruses, worms, and malware cannot attack without your help.

There is a new email going around today that contains malicious file.

There is a new email threat going around that looks like it came from Facebook, but don't be fooled.  This email has an attachment called agreement.zip which contains a trojan that can infect your computer.

To put it in simple terms, SaaS (Software as a Service) is basically a hosted service similar to web hosting and email hosting, but with advance applications such as Microsoft Exchange, CRM, file servers, etc.

Spam messages have caused more damage than hackers and viruses, because of how easy and cheap it is to send fraudulent or infected emails.

We are always trying to improve our clients' services and staying with the times without increasing their costs. This past weekend, we have upgraded our servers to provide them with more mailbox storage.

What do you do if a hurricane or flood destroys your servers? What would you do if your server crashes and lost all of your data? Most companies are not prepared with known or even unknown disasters and can cost the company system downtime, valuable data, and money. In some cases, it can cause a company to go out of business.