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Topics: Disaster Recovery, Data Security, Business Continuity
As you may or may not know, the end-of-life date of Windows Small Business Server 2003 is July 14, 2015. This means Microsoft will be terminating services for the line, services that provide crucial security updates and patches. This termination will be akin to the Windows XP termination this past April: XP can still run on desktops, but the product is off the shelf both commercially and in terms of Microsoft’s internal support; vulnerable, it is a security disaster waiting to happen and generally will not pass regulations. The problems in upgrading a server are similar but far bigger, and the popular mad-dash-switch strategy is not feasible for companies relying heavily on fully-operational 24/7 server activity. The whole infrastructure of a system, in many cases carefully built up over years, needs to be reworked – and this takes time, time that can be born only out of ample foresight. Though the end-of-life for the Small Business Server 2003 is a year away, the question must be asked now: what are we going to do about upgrading?
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Topics: Cloud Computing, Managed Services, IT Project Management
The term viral is often used to describe the way information spreads across the internet and becomes public. However, a new social communications app has taken the concept to its next level. Plague, an app developed in Lithuania, has taken the way viruses are transmitted as a model and spreads content from one device to another. Not to be confused with the extremely addictive mobile game Plague Inc., --it’s goal is to engineer a virus that will infect the word, Plague shares with it the same concept -- an app that will spread information like an actual infection.
Topics: Social Media, Data Security
Whatever device you are working on -- PC, Mac, Tablet, phone -- Office 365 gives you access to everything you need -- your documents, email, calendars, contacts and team sites all come with you. Your settings roam with you too, so your files are up to date and ready for you to pick up right where you left off, no matter what device your are using. You are now able to work across all devices, from anywhere and have a consistent, clean, fast experience doing it.
Topics: Microsoft
Some prosthetic limbs are so advanced that they can be controlled by their owners, using nerves, muscles, or even the brain. Unfortunately, no bionic arm of leg will ever be able to provide an absolute feeling of realism until they have a skin that can actually sense the external environment and send the collected information back to the amputee’s nervous system.
Topics: New Technology