The scams mentioned in this newsletter target all people. Even the very wealthy fall prey to the stories that may be perpetrated. I remember just a few months back in a networking group that Computer Troubleshooters – Parramatta is a member of, a colleague relating a story of a client of theirs. This client was sent an email from a so called African Prince that needed a little money to tie him over until the times were better. The story must have been compelling because this person remitted a seven figure sum to this African Prince. I did ask the question as to whether this was a big loss and was told no, just a drop in the bucket and this person still believes that this prince is going to sail up Sydney Harbour to take this person away, oh well!
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Computer Troubleshooters – Parramatta is often asked about the iPad or other tablets and have seen contacts using them as data capture devices, which saves them much time later at the office. Further we have seen these devices being used by sales staff showing their clients various presentations. However are these devices appropriate for your business?
Computer Troubleshooters – Parramatta recently attended a seminar where the demonstration of a recovery of a failed system took about 6 minutes to become operational again with a loss of no more than 15 minutes worth of data. This solution does raise a number of interesting questions for small businesses.
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Computer Troubleshooters - Parramatta believes that an independent review of your systems, software and network is the only way to know what issues you may have. Once you know the problem areas then you can better plan how to do something about it. One such way to perform a review is through an audit.
With the spate of inclement weather that has occurred in Queensland and Victoria I wanted to look into the preparedness of small to medium businesses to withstand these challenges. I was interested to receive information from Gina Addiego Sheibley, from Symantec who shared some statistics of a recent Disaster Preparedness survey that they undertook.
In our last blog entry, we predicted what the trend for technology would be for 2011. I received an email from one of our partners, pointing out that we had left out an important prediction of NComputing.
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In January 2010, we revealed your list of technology needs for the upcoming year. You said you’d be focusing on protection, upgrades and replacements, problem-prevention, remote support, netbooks, mobile web access and home technology.
For a long time I have stated to clients that all hard disk drives (HDD) will fail.
The reason for this statement is to motivate them to action and ensure that they have adequate resilience in their storage, have adequate backups and not an assumption that failure will never happen. However is having implemented all these strategies enough reason to give you a warm and fuzzy feeling that all is well with your data?
Computer Troubleshooters – Parramatta has recently partnered with Fonality to deliver state-of-art business grade VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) phone systems. This offering provides our clients with an easily implemented phone system that is able to scale from a small home office to a large enterprise.
Is your computer running slow? Freezing up? Popups? Displaying error messages?
The High-Tech Computer Tune-up may bring your computer back to life!
Many businesses never recover from an event in which critical data is lost!