How to choose the right online backup service for you

As part of your disaster recovery plan, whether it’s it for your office network or your home workstation, having an offsite copy of your data is a vital part of that plan.  But how do you know which one to choose?

VMWare for the small- to medium- sized business

Last week I had the great pleasure of securing an interview with the legendary David Davis, where we discussed the benefits of using VMWare in the small business environment.

David is a VCP4, vExpert, and CCIE.  He has been in the IT industry for 20+ years.  In that time, he has served as a system/network administrator and IT datacenter manager.  He is one of only 300 vExperts worldwide, and has authored hundreds of articles, co–authored one book, and six video training courses covering topics like VMware, Windows, Cisco, Linux, and Security.  David writes for Virtualization Review magazine and has spoken at numerous conferences about Virtualization in the USA and Canada.

You can read the full interview below.

WaiteIT to the rescue

It looks like another press article about WaiteIT is to be published!  I will keep you up to date when it goes to print, but you can preview the story below:

Why patch your servers?

As part of your regular housekeeping on the internal network, patching should be right up there as one of the most important tasks.  As with all software, code can be flawed and holes found, and regular patching is the answer to this.

Our recent press article

Thanks to Chris Rooney of Writing Works, several newspapers have picked up on the following story he recently wrote about us:

Why use a Server?

You may be considering implementing a server within your network.  Once your business reaches a certain size, there are  many good reasons to add a server into your organisation.  Below are just some of the best reasons.

The difference between Switches and Hubs

This topic is extremely important for the flow of data in a network, and it really annoys me when people (usually who work in computer stores) try to say that a network switch and a network hub are one and the same…grrr!  That couldn’t be further from the truth; there is SO MUCH difference between the two devices.

This basic overview hopes to explain the main differences between hubs and switches, and to give you a better understanding of the two.