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Friday Feb 3, 2012
New Years Resolutions: 10 Ways to Keep Your Business Safe
Written by Stan Oien, manager of security solutions, CDW   
Ringing in the New Year is often synonymous with making resolutions to improve upon the prior year.  While IT professionals – like the rest of us – may resolve to eat healthier or save up for a new house, protecting their business’s safety belongs at the top of their professional resolution list.  As businesses face growing daily threats from a barrage of cybersecurity dangers, further enhanced by the expanded use of mobile devices and BYOD (bring your own devices), safety is paramount. 
 
 
Dream of striking it rich on the internet It is possible with Network Marketing
Many people dream of creating a new internet sensation such as Google, Amazon, Facebook or Twitter. There are indeed people who just happen to have an idea which appeals to the masses at the right time and the rest becomes history. Just such a story is Facebook which grabbed the students attention and rapidly rolled out so that, as at January 2012 there are over 800 million active Facebook users.
 
Centralizing Your Business Data
Consolidating information in a centralized database helps a business to maintain interoperability between present and future applications. It reduces information management costs for duplication and provides access to more complete information and enhancing overall efficiency of the organization. Frank Johnson delves deeper into the concept of centralizing business data.

 
Payback Power: ROI Drives Unified Communications Implementation
Written by Brian Kopf, manager of unified communications practice, CDW   
As businesses consider their IT budgets, a growing number of organizations are deploying unified communications (UC) solutions – integrated voice, data, messaging, conferencing, and collaboration services over converged networks.  The reason?  Return on investment.  In fact, a recent CDW report found that UC implementation rates doubled from 2010 to 2011, with 16 percent of organizations fully implemented today.  Meanwhile, 76 percent of organizations that have fully implemented UC and track return on investment (ROI) say that ROI has met or exceeded their...

 
The Move from PBX to VoIP
Written by Sheena Finnegan, Cisco presales engineer, CDW   
Telephone systems are critically important to any business, and refreshing your technology can be a daunting task.  Small and midsized businesses (SMBs) considering an upgrade from a PBX to VoIP can breathe easy knowing that the benefits of this switch are clear – and, with proper planning, the implementation is nothing to be afraid of. 

Getting started
There are many factors SMBs should consider when transitioning from a PBX environment to VoIP.  Before exploring the technical details, be sure to set a clear budget and identify the unique business drivers...

 
Intuitive New Tool Empowers End-Users to Find and Fix Broken Links After a Microsoft Office Upgrade
I’m always surprised by the reaction we get when discussing the risks of broken links as part of planning for a Microsoft Office upgrade.  When we bring up the topic with a project team’s IT leaders as part of a prudent and methodical planning process, it’s usually met with blank stares, shoulder shrugs and general indifference.  I find this reaction surprising since broken links are often a widespread – and sometimes chronic – problem during and post migration, especially if the organization is upgrading from Office 2003 to Office...

 
To Build or to Buy ? That is the Question
Written by Jon Vander Hill, CDW Product and Service Development Manager   
As many small and medium-sized businesses move to the cloud, is it smart to pass up data center colocation?
For years, organizations of all sizes have debated the question of whether to build or buy data centers, and small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) also have several cost-saving outsourcing options from which to choose, not least among them cloud computing.
 
 
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.

 
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.

 
Open Source Web Development-An Ideal Solution For Companies
Importance of Open Source Web Development
Open Source Web Development is used by most of the companies today to ease the task of web development. It encompasses the usage of web applications and easy to distribute codes that are developed by the web developers belonging to open source community. Some of the open source web development platforms available in the market are OSCommerce, Joomla, WordPress, X-Cart, Magento and so on and so forth. The kind of open source web development that should be brought to use depends entirely on the nature of a website and the technology that fits the...

 
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