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Productivity All-Stars
Written by Jill Billhorn, CDW vice president, small business   
Three key players that can give your business the boost it needs to stay in the game
It’s always a challenge to be the underdog, especially when the competition is more experienced and highly skilled.  Business professionals from small businesses often have to work harder to yield the same results as a large business.  To keep up with the competition, they must constantly search for new and innovative ways to lower costs and increase productivity.

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Avoid common Drupal hosting mistakes for a reliable and secure site
It seems everyone has fallen for Drupal, the open-source website content management system. Behind some of the most powerful people on the planet -- from the leader of the free world and WhiteHouse.gov to teen sensation Justin at bieberfever.com – you’ll find Drupal, one of the most durable, feature-rich and customizable applications in use.

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Developing an IT Training Plan in an Organization
The main aim of any IT training in an organization is to identify what skill or skill sets does the company want its personnel to learn. Frank Johnson unearths the factors that determine the IT training strategy and detailed plan of action with regards to imparting training tailored to address a company’s need for IT security.

Depending upon the specific IT training requirement of a company, the first essential step is to identify the audience that would be receiving the training in order to aptly address their varied responsibilities pertaining to IT security. Moving forward, a company needs to assess its available resources in order to strategize the development, implementation and maintenance of its IT security awareness and training program.

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IT Security Awareness and Training in a Corporate Organization
The organizations today work in highly networked environments and the confidentiality, availability and integrity of information can only be protected if all employees have the basic knowledge of management, operational and technical controls required to protect the IT resources of their organization. Frank Johnson explains the strategies for designing an IT training program in corporate world. With the use of automated systems and advanced software in organizations, business operations and daily tasks have become highly computerized and programmed. The so called ‘manual work’ has considerably reduced.

However, the audit reports, periodicals and conference reports generally show that people are still one of the weakest links in attempts to secure the IT systems and networks. A robust and company wide IT training program is integral to ensure that all employees associated with the organization understand their duties, responsibilities, organizational policies and the secure use of the resources entrusted to them.

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How Viable is the Move from PBX to VoIP Systems
Companies have been rapidly migrating from PBX to VoIP to cut down their telephone and data transmission expenses by getting them delivered on the same line. But is this strategic move a feasible solution? Frank Johnson finds out.

Why the move?
In their search for a communication system that is not only flexible but also affordable, several companies around the word have found their solution in VoIP systems that can help them to streamline all their business communication with high proficiency.

In the past, most companies generally used Key systems that could only accommodate less than 10 phone lines per business. Key systems were fairly uncomplicated and used to operate through conventional phone lines or connections. However, most big enterprises that required connections for over 100 telephone ports used a form of Private Branch Exchange or PBX systems.

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Move from PBX to VoIP
Written by Frank Johnson   
Companies can reduce IT costs by getting voice and data delivered on the same line through VoIP. While the PBX system is just a phone, VoIP based technology works with the data network, coordinating devices and helping workers on the move to access data and communicate from anywhere. Frank Johnson discusses all the point that you need to take care of, before you make the move.

Business organizations often consider moving from their Private Branch Exchange (PBX) to Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) to decrease their telephone and data transmission costs.

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Get Complete IT Security and Control with Desktop Optimization
Now you can deploy, manage, protect and monitor secure desktop environments and make them available to users locally or remotely, independent of a network connection from any desktop, laptop or tablet PC. Frank Johnson explores desktop optimization and its benefits

The need for secure and well-managed desktop environments
With work environments becoming more and more intricate, deploying desktop virtualization has become imperative for data protection, data security and compliance. With workplace mobility as their focal point, enterprises are aspiring to achieve increased desktop management efficiencies and consequent business continuity. They are geared up to migrate to Windows 7 environments and adopt the ‘bring your own computer’ or BYOC to work strategy and experience accelerated growth in their respective fields. From small and mid-sized firms, insurance companies, healthcare facilities, call centers, offshore developers and contractors to large MNCs, desktop optimization has got every enterprise, big and small, in its stride.

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Best Practices for Desktop Optimization
Desktop deployment, management and support are dramatically simplified with virtualization, automation and centralized administration. Frank Johnson delves more to find out how desktop optimization is redefining the very way people work!

In an era where the significance of flexible and cost effective business operations is increasing everyday, technology has to be used in the optimum way to achieve maximum efficiency. Imagine the benefits that you reap in the following scenarios:

  • Your employees getting a secure access to their data and applications from anywhere – their laptop at a customer site, a shared PC at your regional office or a non company PC at home.
  • Contractors and off shore workers running the latest powerful applications on older and less capable PCs while their data is secure in controlled, central locations.
  • Your organization’s desktop infrastructure providing the power and flexibility needed by end-users, while improving the security and control needed by IT.

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Properly Managing Complex Email Migrations
A typical corporate email system might contain some users who have upwards of 20,000 messages, which contain massive amounts of important files that might not be backed up on the user’s CPU or on company servers. In addition, each user has calendar items, tasks, and hundreds of contacts which can be the lifeblood of the organization. Over time, most email platforms reach a point where the users require more features or become increasingly frustrated with slow system degradation.

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Four (4) steps to create a Flash banner in PowerPoint!
Need to create Flash movies without any experience in Flash technology? With iSpring it is really possible!
Creating Flash banners in PowerPoint with iSpring is not only possible, but also easy and fast. PowerPoint is great tool with an extensive range of effects and facilities for creating animated content. It is actually easy to make your PowerPoint texts or images rotating, floating, zooming, etc. You just need to assemble all these things and convert them into a Flash banner using iSpring.

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