August 2008
In this issue:
 Note from the President
Business Interruption Planning
Treatment for E-Mail
Overload
Statistics
Lunch & Learn
Spotlight
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Monthly Lunch & Learn!
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Sept. 10th
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thereafter,
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Accent
Computer Solutions would like to Welcome and Introduce the
newest member
of our team:
Dale Taylor
Systems Engineer
He is a MCITP
(Microsoft Certified Information Technology Professional: SQL
Server 2005) as well as a VMware Certified Professional. He
also has experience with Sharepoint and Web Design
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 Welcome to this month’s edition of ProTech IT News!
I hope you are enjoying what’s left of your summer. Luckily,
it’s almost that time of year again when the kids go back to
school and parents get to breathe a sigh of relief. . . If you
are a parent, you know exactly what I am talking about.
We have
a new employee to introduce to you this month, Dale Taylor.
Dale is a fantastic addition to TeamAccent and we are excited
to have him. He brings with him technical expertise that
really complements our entire team. Check out the Spotlight
section below to learn a little more about him. . .
Welcome Dale!
This
month I have chosen articles about Disaster Recovery and Email
Overload. Along with those are a few statistics at the bottom
of the main page about employee office computer usage and
spyware. I think you will find these stats a very interesting
-- I certainly did.
Enjoy
the articles and the rest of your summer! |
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Business
Interruption Planning Not Just for Big Business:
10
misconceptions about disaster recovery
 Paul Sullivan has seen it all. A 25-year veteran of
disaster recovery and business continuity management, Sullivan
witnessed the growth of continuity planning among the Fortune
1000 in the 1980s. He watched, first hand, the successes and
failures of business continuity plans following the events of
September 11, 2001 and in 2005 throughout the most active
hurricane season in recorded history. Today, Sullivan is
helping small and medium-sized companies plan for and recover
after significant business interruptions.
“Continuity
planning has always been associated with big business,” said
Sullivan, Vice President and General Manager, Agility Recovery
Solutions. “We’re using the same knowledge, strategies and
tactics we developed with the Fortune 1000 and implementing
them among small and medium-sized businesses across North
America.”
Agility Recovery
Solutions, a former division of General Electric, focuses
planning and recovery efforts on small and medium-sized
businesses, though the company continues to do work with
giants such as IBM and HP.
Why Business Continuity? Why
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The
Most Productive Article You Will Read this Quarter:
How to
get Treatment for Email Overload
By Craig
Davis, SLPowers
 Corporate workers are now spending as
much as 40% of their time dealing with email. I personally
have come to expect between 100 and 150 emails every business
day. From the important, such as a new customer requesting
information to the mundane, such as an endless chain of email
discussions between colleagues. It's come to the point where
the issue can no longer be ignored. I've assembled a list of
tips that you can use to help keep the problem at bay, at
least until software catches up and solves the issue for
us.
1. Get a search
tool on your PC or notebook, RIGHT NOW. The three
leaders are Google Desktop Search , Windows Desktop Search, or my personal
favorite, X1 by Yahoo. These tools index all of the
emails, files, pictures, documents, etc. on your hard drive in
advance. When you search for them, the files that match
whatever you search for get called up instantly and update as
fast as you can type or delete another letter.
2. Eliminate
SPAM from making it to your inbox. As obvious as it
sounds, for many people SPAM was once a small problem and
because it has very gradually gotten worse, they've done
nothing about it. There are many solutions out there, and
though we at SLPowers recommend our managed SPAM solution
(called SPAZ), even Outlook, especially since Outlook 7 was
released, can do the job.
Read more |
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| Statistics
The need is
clear:
"99% of companies
use anti-virus software; 78% of them were hit by viruses,
worms etc."
2004 CSI/FBI
Computer Crime and Security Survey
"A survey of three
million corporate computers found 83 million instances of
spyware."
Gartner Group,
September 2004
"70% of employees
admit to viewing or sending adult-oriented personal e-mail
at work."
NFO
Worldwide
"Up to 40% of
Internet use in the work place is not business
related."
International Data
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