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4 Essential Forms of Data Your Business Can’t Operate Without

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Your company's data is debatably your most valuable resource. When companies accidentally lose their data, their future in business is not a favorable fight. In fact, if any given small business is unable to access their data for ten days or more, statistically they likely will not survive the following fiscal year. Learn how to defend your data.

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The 4 Basic Components of IT Security

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What are the essentials of network security? This question was recently answered at a security event by VP of Gartner Neil MacDonald, "Information security was never about device lockdown, or dictating applications, or building firewalls. It was always about protecting the confidentiality, the integrity, the authenticity, the availability of information." Let's break down these four basic components of IT security.

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IBM CEO Explains the Importance of Data Management

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As doing business becomes more complex and competitive, having access to accurate data is becoming increasingly important. This is the assessment of IBM chair, president and CEO Ginni Rometty from her speech on October 2nd at the IBM InterConnect 2013 event. According to Rometty, businesses that successfully use data will share these three characteristics.

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Take the Time to Safely Remove Your Device

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It is the end of the day and you have been stressed from the days workload. You're ready to just go home and spend some time with your family. As you're leaving, you remember you left your USB drive connected to your computer. Do you just disconnect it and stuff it in your bag or do you spend the time to safely remove it?

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Who's Your IT Hero?

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Growing up, we didn't dream of servicing computers. Long ago, when RAM was the animal used to represent the letter "R," and not random access memory, our aspirations tended to be draped with capes. While none of us today are superhero crime fighters, we can be an IT hero to your business!

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Feedly Pinch-Hits for Google Reader

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If you are a user of the popular Google Reader, then you have by now received the memo from Google about their plans to discontinue this service on July 1, 2013. Google’s reasoning for jettisoning their reader is so they can focus on fewer products. What’s a Google Reader user to do? Feedly is a great alternative that’s worth checking out.

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Don't Be An April Fool, Back Up your Data!

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Your data is critical.  Backup is extremely important for businesses of all sizes, from sprawling corporations to one-man shops.  March 31st is World Backup Day, reminding us all that deploying a bullet-proof backup solution is vital for business continuity.  If you don't have a backup solution, now is the time to consider it, and if you do have a backup solution, there's no time like the present to have it tested to make sure it's working!  Check out the infographic about data backup!

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Be Careful Who You Trust with Your Data

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We cannot downplay the importance of your company's data. Your servers contain files about your own financial records, sensitive information on your employees and your customers, and the secrets to your profits. Because your information is so valuable, you should only let a company you trust have access to it.

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Your 3 Weakest Network Security Links

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"You are the weakest link, goodbye." Determining who the weakest employee is on your staff, and then firing them, will eliminate a lot of issues. Eliminating the weakest security link of your network infrastructure will only make your security problem worse, because now you will be 100% exposed to online threats. A better idea is to strengthen your weakest security links, one link at a time.

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The Cloud and Mobile Devices in Today’s Modern Office

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With businesses now able to migrate their computing needs over to the cloud, and with cloud-based mobile devices now able to perform more enterprise-level tasks, many companies are seriously considering going all-in with the cloud and scraping their traditional IT infrastructure. As nice as it would be to clear out a closet full of servers, you will first want to address the pros and cons of such a drastic move.

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Google’s Growth Spawns New Technology

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At one point in Google's not-so-distant past, they were able to house all of their servers in one garage. True Story. Times have certainly changed for Google. In fact, Google has grown so rapidly that they saw the need to develop a new technology for the sole purpose of managing their growth. Google calls their new creation the Google Spanner.

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IT Planning Will Prevent Future Problems

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It is the goal of every business to grow, but if there is a lack planning, then new growth will bring new problems. This principle applies to every area of your business, including your technology. Without any planning towards the expansion of your technology, you could end up with a Frankenstein of a computer network that can cause monster problems to your business.

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It’s 2013 and Fax Machines are Still Going Strong

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In today's digital office, it seems odd that fax machines still have a home; yet there they sit, collecting dust and still churning out the occasional fax. One would assume that e-mail would have dethroned the fax machine a long time ago, and while e-mail is popular, fax machines still hold a place in the modern office.

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Exploring Google’s Data Centers

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"The Internet? Is that thing still around?" -Homer J. Simpson. Not only is the internet still around, but it grows exponentially every year. Internet giant Google exemplifies this, growing from a start up in a garage in 1998, to dozens of data centers around the world today. Each data center stores massive amounts of data that make up what we call the internet.

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Sink or Swim - Business Continuity Relies on Solid Backup

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Sit back in your chair and take a look around your business. Your employees are helping customers from all over the Northern Virginia, Maryland and Washington DC region and beyond. Your mailbox is full of letters and packages from all around the globe, and your presence on the world wide web is literally connecting you all over the world. The complex coordination of people and resources you see in front of you is called logistics.

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The Fall of the Mighty Fax Machine

If Back to the Future's Marty McFly time traveled to the modern office, he would probably feel a little disoriented. He would see employees squinting at little televisions, mobile devices right out of Star Trek, and no rows of file cabinets. Then Marty would notice a fax machine and feel right at home, because fax machines have been around forever.

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The Quest for the Paperless Office

Ever since the first microfilm machine was rolled off the line 100 years ago, mankind has been striving to achieve the paperless office. If you are too young to remember using microfilm, think of an arcade cabinet, except, instead of Mortal Kombat, documents battle it out over a projected screen. Thankfully, we have come a long way in 100 years.

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Computerware is proud to announce the launch of our new website at ww.cwit.com. The goal of the new website is to make it easier for our existing clients to submit and manage support requests, and provide more information about our services for ...
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