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March 2008
In this issue:
 Note from the President
How Bill Gates Uses Office
Benefits of Remote
Monitoring
Save the Date
Spotlight
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Monthly Lunch
& Learn!
Next
Date
Wednesday, March 12th
and every 2nd Wednesday
of each month thereafter,
Accent Computer Solutions will
host a Monthly Lunch & Learn.
The
meetings will highlight
Protech ALL IT Services.
For
additional information
please click here.
To
RSVP for the event
please click here.
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Accent Computer Solutions would like to Welcome and
Introduce the newest member
of our team:
Zailyn Blackburn
New Business
Development
Her background includes
12 years in Technology Sales,
Telecommunication/VoIP Telephony,
Structured Cabling and Design
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Welcome to the
March edition of Protech IT News. I hope March finds you all well.
Last month we had our first
Protech IT Lunch and Learn. The event turned out great! We had
customers and prospects at our office and spent about an hour and a
half discussing what CEO’s and other managers should know about
Information Technology. It was a very engaging meeting with many good
points from all who attended. It was interesting to hear the issues and
concerns that were brought up and I learned some things that will be
integrated into this month’s meeting on March 12th. Feel free to join
us if you can spare the time.
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This month we have included an
article by Mr. Bill Gates himself. It is kind of fun to get in insider’s
view of how the computer master himself uses his own products. I actually
decided to get an extra monitor for my desk because of this article. I
found myself switching between his article and several other windows and
I thought . . .”Why don’t I just get another monitor?”
Also, take a look at the
article on remote monitoring. This technology allows us to help prevent
outages, to avoid downtime, and to be far more proactive in the
workplace. I thought that an article from a third party about remote
monitoring may be interesting.
When I am out and about, I get
many comments about the articles that are featured in our newsletter. I
thank you all for giving this message a few minutes of your time.
Thanks,
Marty
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Office Hours: How Bill Gates Uses Office
Written by William (Bill) H.
Gates, chairman of Microsoft
Corporation.
Reprinted with permission from Microsoft Office.
 If
you visit my office, you will probably notice right away that I have
three large flat screen displays that sit together and are synchronized
so they work like a single very wide display. The large display area
enables me to work very efficiently. I keep my Outlook 2007 Inbox open on the screen to the left so I can see new
messages as they come in. I usually have the message or document that I'm
currently reading or writing in the center screen. The screen on the
right is where I have room to open up a browser or look at a document
that someone has sent me in e-mail.
I spend the majority of my
time communicating with colleagues, customers, and partners. As a result,
Outlook is the application that I use the most. I receive about 100
e-mail messages per day from Microsoft employees, and many more from customers
and partners.
It's very important that I
hear what people think about our products and our company. Yet I need to
balance that against the very real risk of information overload from all
the e-mail that I receive. The advances we made in Outlook 2007 for filtering, rules, and search folders have made it
much easier to manage my e-mail than before, especially because so much
happens automatically once I've set everything up. Read More
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Enjoy the Benefits of Remote
Network Monitoring
 Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind -- Enjoy the Benefits of
Remote Network Monitoring Without The IT Burden
Your network or application is
down and you need it corrected quickly or your business suffers through
loss of productivity, revenue or image. With managed services from Accent
Computer Solutions, corrective action
is already underway to get you up and running again.
Today’s remote network
monitoring applications — such as Cisco Works,
HP OpenView, Ipswitch and Netarx — can help us generate valuable
information about your network health and performance. This data, pulled
from firewall and VPN logs, helps our network administrators quickly
determine which of your network components are overburdened, underutilized
or at risk.
And by hiring out this
service, you can gain all the information you need to make critical
decisions, without placing an additional burden on your busy IT
personnel. Read More
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