Mike Houghton

By now just about everyone using a computer in a business environment knows how to backup their data; even more so for the mobile users. So it’s puzzling that we still see so many hard drives being sent to the lab to have important data recovered. And more often than not, the so-called “important” data […]

Let’s take a look at some of the pros and cons of adopting VoIP in your enterprise. First we need take a look at some of the issues of administering this technology from the perspective of the folks that will actually do the hands-on work. The technology behind VoIP is fairly simple. With VoIP we […]

Network managers and engineers, the time for broadband site-to-ite Virtual Private Networks (VPN) has arrived. Although Frame Relayhas served, and continues to serve, us all very well, the recurring costs associated with Frame Relay continues is expensive compared those with a broadband site-to-site VPN and it doesn’t appear that the carriers intend to drop rates […]

The broad arena of enterprise network management can be overwhelming, particularly if you’re the new hire in a large organization’s IT department. All too often “the newbie” will fail to focus on the time saving (and potentially job saving) aspects of the job such as Asset Management and Disaster Recovery. With today’s growing need for […]