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Exciting infrastructure solutions

This year we have seen one customer a month hit by a catastrophic failure that has placed their business at risk. The solutions above would greatly reduce the risk of failure affecting business continuity which must be our key aim in the current economic climate.

Update from McAfee

McAfee has developed a SuperDAT remediation Tool to restore the svchost.exe file on affected systems

McAfee anti-virus problem

All users of McAfee anti-virus should be aware of a major problem that affects Windows XP SP3 and some other machines when the latest virus definition file is installed

Office 2010 is on the way!

Microsoft have confirmed that there will be four versions of Office 2010

Support for Windows XP SP2 ends July 2010

Support for Windows XP SP2 ends in July 2010, so if, like 30% of the business community, you still run XP SP2 you should begin planning a desktop migration.

Windows 7 officially launched, Lenovo first with Enhanced Experience

Lenovo are the first to market with machines that support the Enhanced Experience accreditation

Can we rid ourselves of backup tapes?

Every time I speak to our customers and our technical support staff there is one subject that is guaranteed to upset both groups – backup tapes

First day with Windows 7 RTM

The final version of Windows 7 was finally released to those of us with TechNet subscriptions on Friday and I attempted to upgrade my machine on Friday afternoon.

When is an e-mail a contract?

How many times does your business rely on e-mail exchanges to agree ‘contracts’ and how often are they genuine?

Netbooks: another step towards the future?

It’s interesting how such a small tweak to a proven design (the laptop) can change the way we interact with the internet.