Start Your Business Off Right with NAS (Network Attached Storage)
Although it may not be in demand right away, your need for storage as a business will grow. In the beginning, there is little data to work with and need stored, but it will change as weeks and months go by. Being ready for this new demand is essential, as opposed to handling it when […]
SSD Hard Drives and RAM Upgrades Can Bring an Lenovo ThinkPad Up to Spec
Although IBM Thinkpads haven’t been marketed by IBM for several years now, they still enjoy an almost fanatical following, not only for their renown keyboards, but also for the advanced engineering which yielded some of the best laptops ever manufactured. The whole Thinkpad division was of course sold to Lenovo, who has maintained the excellent level of engineering and […]
Spoofing: What It Is And How It’s Used In An Email Scam
Email spoofing is the use of a fake sender address in an email message. It is used by email scammers to hide the origin of their message. By modifying the “from”, “reply” and “return path” fields of the email header, they can make the email appear to be from someone else. This is easy to […]
Speed Thrills – The Next Generation of SSD
“It wasn’t until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.” -Vin Diesel Google wants to give your business a gigabit fiber connection to the Internet backbone, and Comcast is rolling out a claimed 2Gbps fiber network in Atlanta. In addition to these fiber offerings, the ever evolving DOCSIS specifications—already […]
Spam E-Mail: A Drain On The Economy
The average e-mail user knows the feeling of excitement when they discover they have an inbox of legitimate emails waiting for them. This feeling often evaporates and becomes disappointment when it is realized that the e-mail is nothing more than spam. It happens to virtually every e-mail user at some point or another. The feeling is […]
Solid State Drives: On The Verge of Revolutionizing Performance, But Facing Rough Year
Solid State Drives (SSD) are the next revolution in storage. Or, more accurately, we can describe this as an ongoing revolution. As costs of the technology dwindle in comparison of traditional hard disk drives (HDD), we stand to see performance of everything from consumer hardware to high-performance servers increase. However, 2013 is the first year in a […]
Setting Up a Storage Cluster
If you haven’t set up a storage cluster before, it can seem a bit daunting at first. You may not know how to begin or how it works. So let us help; here’s a guide to storage clusters. Storage clusters are a type of architecture that enables you to store data with redundancy. They enable you to […]
Serving the World Wide Web
In our 12+ years of being in business, we have learned a ton about data center technology and other emerging tech. Starting now, we will be sharing much of that information on an ongoing basis here on our new blog. To start things out, we just wanted to reiterate who we are and what we […]
Servers vs Peer-to-Peer Networks for Small Businesses
Small businesses generally use one of two types of computer networks. These are the peer-to-peer network or the server-based network. For the very small business with up to about five computers, peer-to-peer is often used because they are inexpensive to set up. The employees using these computers typically work in close proximity and interact frequently. […]
Server Hosting: Where Do You Keep Your Data?
Client information, inventory, finances, accounts receivable, sales transactions, employee records, marketing projections, and information derived from analysis are just a small sampling of the kinds of data that businesses use to keep their operations going. Data is the life blood of a business yet you wouldn’t know it by the way many of them store […]
