Fifosys Hospitality Event 2011 in Partnership with Solar Communications

The gentleman enjoyed a fantastic day, being wined and dined at the Nursery Pavilion, while witnessing England wrap up one-day series with India at Lord’s!

India seemed set to clinch their first win over England this summer after posting a challenging 280-5…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/14871439.stm

See the game in pictures…                                                          

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/gallery/2011/sep/11/england-india-fourth-odi

Microsoft online services hit by major failure

 Millions of Microsoft users were left unable to access some online services overnight because of a major service failure. Such a major problem is likely to raise questions about the reliability of cloud computing…Hotmail, Office 365 and Skydrive were among the services affected.

– read the full story here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14851455

As a Cloud Service provider Fifosys understands the dilemma SMBs face when making the decision of whether or not to move to the cloud. Companies need to assess their business needs and infrastructure before making a decision. Every company will have their own set of priorities, points of failure and risks they are willing to accept.

As part of an effective data disaster recovery plan, businesses should make provisions for the regular backing up and storage of their data. Thanks to the advances in storage and online backup facilities, it is now possible to store a backup of all mission critical data over the Internet often saving time, money, and resources when compared to tape or disk backup facilities. Whether you choose online data backup as a complement to a physical data backup solution or as a standalone service it can prevent the massive data loss associated with various types of disaster.

Data warehousing is basically the central storage of all data related to the running of your business and the servicing of your clients. Individual databases are then used to record and even manipulate more specific sets of data, and the results copied to the data warehouse. By including a data warehouse as part of your business IT network it is possible to ensure the quick, convenient, and accurate flow of all relevant data across the whole IT network.

A lot of the activities in a business are repeated regularly, or at least
certain aspects of these activities are very similar in each case. The manual
performance of these practices can be time consuming and mundane effectively
offering no satisfaction to employees and costing a lot in terms of time and
effectiveness. As a stage in planning IT infrastructure, you should identify
many of these processes and look for ways to automate them.

Automation offers a method to greatly reduce the time that a person spends
performing a particular part of their work. Once a task is automated, the employee
is then able to concentrate their time and effort on different tasks improving
their operating efficiency as well as that of the business.

Fifosys partner and virtualisation giants Citrix Systems, today announced its acquisition of RingCube, a leader in user personalisation technology for virtual desktops.

RingCube made their mark in the technology industry when they gave a dramatic performance at the Demo show. (Demo is where start-ups get just 6 minutes to showcase their products and technology.) CTO Michael Larkin appeared to knock his laptop on the floor sending the stage screens dark. He then casually plugged in his iPod into the port of a colleague’s laptop and his desktop loaded into the machine’s memory.

All pc’s using the internet, retrieving files or opening attachments are at risk of viruses, but more so are pc’s used in a business environment.

Having a lot of people active on a network increases this risk. Incorporating an antivirus solution will protect computers from dangerous viruses that can delete, modify or steal all information on a system and cause an unnecessary waste of money and time. This is a business’ worse nightmare considering most or all work done is stored on a computer.

‘Women should stay away from IT’ was the title of an article I came across this morning.

As proved by our very own female engineers with the highest levels in technical ability, ranging from the Microsoft MCP qualifications to Apples ACTC certification – this is most definitely not the case!

As well as a career, there are plenty of reasons for us ladies to love technology…

A few of my favourite things!

Where many new businesses and small businesses fall over is in the rushed forming of an IT infrastructure and IT system. In order to try and ensure that they hit the ground running, many organisations are more concerned with having an IT system up and running and in place as quickly as possible rather than considering the effects that a rigid infrastructure might have on their business in the future.

Cloud computing drives IT agility. Now, cloud is directly linked to business agility.

With VMware’s new cloud infrastructure solutions, you will find unparalleled capabilities that accelerate IT and accelerate your business.
• Run business-critical applications with confidence — Achieve better application performance and eliminate downtime.
• Respond to business faster — Gain built-in automation and resource elasticity to free IT from manual processes and deliver IT services on demand.
• Trust your cloud — Secure your cloud with virtualization-aware security.