VoIP (voice over internet protocol) delivers voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet. This differs from old school PSTN (publicly switched telephone network) which is an circuit-switched telephone networks that are operated by national, regional, or local telephony operators to provide public communications. Why should you choose to replace your […]
REDMOND, Wash. — January 23, 2014 — Microsoft Corp. today announced revenue of $24.52 billion for the quarter ended December 31, 2013. Gross margin, operating income, net income, and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $16.24 billion, $7.97 billion, $6.56 billion, and $0.78 per share, respectively. It’s of no surprise that Microsoft is having […]
Windows XP is a Ticking Time Bomb! Why you ask? Well the 12-year old operating system loses 100% of support, patches and service packs from Microsoft on April 8, 2014. Right now there are literally hundreds of millions of desktops and laptops running this OS that will be susceptible to a critical zero-day exploit starting […]
According to Gartner, “The use of cloud computing is growing, and by 2016 this growth will increase to become the bulk of new IT spend. … 2016 will be a defining year for cloud as private cloud begins to give way to hybrid cloud, and nearly half of large enterprises will have hybrid cloud deployments […]
While rolling out a new Hyper-V infrastructure we noticed quite a delay (latency) when running either through the console or RDP. After confirming integration services were installed, updated and enabled we turned to the NIC as a possible cause. After doing some research on the driver and firmware revisions we determined that the VMQ (Virtual […]
Ever struggle to keep time correct in your network environment? How about across multiple sites? It’s best to to use an external NTP server. Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a networking protocol for clock synchronization between computer systems over packet-switched, variable-latency data networks. There are plenty of reliable free NTP servers to choose from however, […]
Every few months Tech Tripp reviews over the current desktop operating system market share. One thing that continues to surprise is the large hold Microsoft Windows XP maintains. As of September 2013 Windows XP still maintained a 31.42% market share. I foresee a mad rush end of year and Q1 2014 to get all machines […]
Microsoft Q3 2013: #Lync revenue grew over 30% again, 90 of the Fortune 100 use Lync Microsoft just announced an amazing stat that 90 of the Fortune 100 use Microsoft Lync. Lync Skype video federation is coming soon! “In terms of our productivity server offerings, we continued to see strength with Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync, […]
Office 365 is a force to be reckoned with. Touting a more robust document management solution and more enterprise like features (Lync) the team at Microsoft is excited to report in their latest financial analyst meeting 440 customers they won back in FY13. In August, Microsoft published a article on its official Office blog from some […]
Ever notice degradation in speed or latency with your ISP? Wonder if the issue is isolated or widespread? One of the first outside network sources we check is the Internet Health Report posted over at www.internetpulse.net Here they record and chart the latency and connection history between every major ISP / backbone. The providers include: […]