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In speaking with small business owners on a daily basis I have found that many of them have not put together either a short or long term plan for their company’s technology needs. Most times you’ll hear, “we’ll get it fixed later as long as it’s working”, or “maybe next year”.  While there are always certain items that can […]

VMware has released some exciting performance data showing the improvements of ESXi 5.0 over ESXi 4.1 on the same hardware.  You can read about their findings here: https://tiny.cc/599fx

The trade press is awash in negative Google articles.   Here is one of them.   I think the author’s comments about “jeopardizing Google itself” are a bit over the top, but Google has hit a very rough patch on many fronts.   I find Google + quite different and interesting than Facebook.

VMware Thin App Factory sounds like a major step forward for VMware in the area of application virtualization.  It is a new tool set that dramatically simplifies application virtualization.  Think of it as a P2V for applications.  Here is a nice summary article about this exciting new product:  https://tiny.

Microsoft has created a very robust and expandable environment with Exchange 2010.  You can add redundancy in a modular fashion.   Data Availability Groups (DAG) allow more than one Exchange Mailbox server role to exist with the same data.   You can also have more than one of the other roles of Exchange for added redundancy.

Malicious PDF Documents can be a threat to your business I can’t tell you how many people tell me that they never worry about clicking on Adobe PDF file documents because “they are safe”.  They are shocked when I tell them that infected PDF files is one of the major ways viruses and trojans are brought […]

The commander of the U.S. Cyber Command said Thursday that he does not favor giving the United Nations the power to regulate the Internet.  You can read about it here.

Here is Adobe’s official life cycle page listing what their support commitment is to their various products.  Notice that Adobe 8 Reader went end of core support on 11/3/2011.   Adobe Reader 9 is the oldest fully supported Adobe Reader product.  If you are on anything older than Adobe Reader 9, you should upgrade to Adobe’s […]

If you have a corrupt recycle bin on your Windows 7 desktop, here is how you can fix it:    Click on the Start button In the search box type: CMD.EXE Do not click on CMD but rather highlight it and right click on it.

A flaw was found in Adobe Flash that can allow a “clickjacking” exploit to turn on your webcam and microphone.  Adobe is working on a fix.  Networkworld has an article talking about this issue:  https://tinyurl.com/bwt7h7p