This was the week where Microsoft announced the general availability of Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service. More than a simple declaration of production-grade availability, Microsoft’s announcement about its IaaS platform delivered the strongest possible elaboration of its intent to compete head to head with Amazon Web Services in the IaaS space to date. MSPs, IT service […]
On February 19th Tony Bates, President of Microsoft’s Skype Division, announced in the keynote address at the Lync Conference and also in a blog post that Lync-Skype Connectivity for presence, IM, and voice will be available to all Lync users by June. This article is a follow-up to provide additional details and answers to the most frequently asked questions as […]
And the internet gets faster! BHN staff member, BHNtechXpert, posted the other day on DSLReports.com that faster Road Runner Lightning is coming to all customers in Florida. The new speeds will be 90mbps down and 10mbps up! Tampa and Central Florida will be the first to get this crazy fast speed and it will be […]
Better Safe than Sorry Trend Micro just recently released an excellent 8 page eBook entitled “Five Things Every Small Business Should Know About Web Threats and Cybercrimes.” In this eBook Trend Micro demonstrates the many threats that small business face. Many think that cybercrimes and threats are only in movies but the reality is they […]
More Gigabits! While we all crave fast internet connections up to or over 1 Gbps most of us (99.9%) just can’t get them. It’s not necessarily that the speed isn’t possible it’s more to do with greedy Internet Service Providers. Yes, there are some infrastructure limitations but that’s not really the issue. Consider this recent […]
Mandatory e-Filing for Florida is in Effect On April 1st, 2013 the Florida Court system requires mandatory use of their statewide e-filing portal in order to file any court documents. No longer can a document be filed at the court house or with paper. Florida eFiling has many benefits. Watch this short e-filing benefits video […]
From Microsoft to Google, Time Warner to Hitachi’s new “Green” data center in Yokohama, Japan, companies have massive data centers that work behind the scenes to deliver the world with the fastest, most energy efficient data processing systems. IBM, for example, operates eight million square feet of data center space on six different continents. Here […]
Powershell is a great and powerful command line interface (CLI) that can be used to administer Office 365. If you are not already using Powershell to manage your Office 365 online account you are missing out on many features unavailable through the graphical user interface. Unfortunately, at this time Microsoft does not give out access […]
Is Your Antivirus Good Enough? Tech Tripp regularly reviews antivirus programs and finds that many do not hold up to the claims that they make. After much searching and testing we found a solution that provides the customer with the lowest total cost of ownership by harnessing the power of the cloud. That solution is […]
Should You Move Your Data to the Cloud? There has been much talk recently about “the cloud.” In a nutshell, the cloud is simply another name for the internet. Cloud computing has taken shape in a variety of ways. It can be networks, servers, applications, data storage and services – which the end user has […]