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Fotec White Paper: Can you guarantee system recovery from back ups ?

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Research shows that 70% of companies expect to recover 100% of their data if there’s an IT problem – but in actual emergencies, very few actually achieve anything like 100%. In this White Paper, we discuss the reasons why, and what can be done about it. To read the White Paper, simply Register as a [...]

How can you increase your productivity by more than 20% ?

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According to Microsoft, you can increase your productivity by between 20% and 50%….by using two monitors on your computer:
“On my desk I have three screens, synchronised to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you’ll never go back, because it has [...]

The Truth about how long people spend on Facebook at work ?

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According to Cisco’s 2010 Midyear Security Report, workers are accessing social networking sites on company equipment even though policies are there to prevent it. 50% of employees in the survey ignore company social media policies at least once every per week. Over a quarter actually reconfigured their devices to access forbidden content or applications.
The report says “…social [...]

Are your PCs older or newer than everyone else’s ?

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For the past 15 years, we’ve all been forced to continuously upgrade our  PCs and laptops, as applications have grown, and been ever hungrier for more power and memory.
But at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2010 in Washington, D.C. on Monday, a senior staffer said that the average age of PCs is now older than at [...]

So how many companies use the internet for voice calls ?

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Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), with its promise of dramatically reduced phone and comms line costs,  has been threatening to hurt the traditional phone companies’ revenues for years. But how many companies are using VoIP now ?
Recent surveys suggest that after a long ramp up, the market is growing very fast right now. In companies [...]

What % of business internet use is YouTube ?

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A whopping 10%, according to new report from The Network Box (http://www.network-box.com/), a global managed security company.
The survey, of 13 billion URLs used by businesses in Q1 2010, also showed that 7% of all Internet traffic is taken up by Facebook. Here are the top 5…:
…websites visited by businesses in Q1 2010:

Facebook – 6.8 per [...]

So who sold the most PCs in Q1 ?

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Both Gartner Group and IDC have published sales numbers for PCs for Q1 2010, and the growth is astonishing: IDC reckon shipments of PCs were up 24% and Gartner 27% against Q1 2009.
To see IDC’s figures, click here, or for Gartner’s click here.
In terms of names, HP are top of the market with an estimated [...]

What are the 3 Essential Presentations for IT Managers ?

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IT guru Marc Schiller recently defined the 3 presentations all IT Managers must have at the ready. By combining slides from them, he claims you’ll be able to cover anything that comes up:

Vision: your view of technology, likely developments, and how they could affect your company.
Strategy: Your IT agenda, program, and operating model, linking [...]

Why pay for AntiVirus products when you can have them for free ?

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Everyone uses AntiVirus products, and there’s a wide range of choice. From  Kaspersky to Trend Micro, Sophos to McAfee – Fotec works with them all. But Microsoft is threatening to completely undermine the market with their Security Essentials product set, which is…wait for it…free !
So just how much AV do you get for nothing ?
PCAdvisor ran [...]

Are you a good manager of IT ?

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It’s not an easy question to answer, but recent research provides measures of UK IT management success that you can use as a comparison point. The research, which covered 130 IT Managers in UK businesses, was published by Kavanagh Consulting in Jan 2010. Their key findings were:
IT Service Level Agreements:
Best: 14% of companies had SLAs based [...]