E-Oasis Alerts

Succeeding in Business means evaluating your existing processes for improvement. All businesses use spreadsheets for many tasks mainly because it’s quick and easy and doesn’t involve a complicated Information Technology cycle to deploy. How many tasks do you recognize in your own business?

Travel Expenses
Invoices
Project Tracking
Orders and Quotes
Sales Prospects
Workflow Checklists
Vendor [...]

SunRocket, a VoIP provider, ceased operations and stranded all of its customers. Unfortunately, many of those customers pre-paid for their service. That means not only did their phone service stop functioning, they are unlikely to see any refunds for pre-paid service. And while Vonage is often mentioned as a replacement option, it looks like Packet8 [...]

A quick web search should give you a taste for both the horror and success stories that a Vista upgrade brings. Before your IT staff decides that Vista is your standard, make sure they didn’t forget to test these items:

Does Vista work with your VPN solution? (Specifically, does your VPN software even support Vista and [...]

I’ve been getting reports about Comcast slowness in this area for several weeks. Taking a closer look,a quick speed test confirmed that performance is awful. A look at the cable modem revealed that quite a bit of traffic was inbound without anything else plugged into the modem. A sniffer trace revealed that nothing was attacking [...]

Intuitively, you already know most of it is wrong. You’re jaded enough to mistrust what seems like millions of online experts peddling ideas that prey on a simple truth.
Every business can use more effective marketing across all channels (not just online).
The paradox is that when you are small you need the most help when you [...]

E-mail form spam seems to be growing in popularity where automated programs fill out web e-mail contact forms. There are various opinions about why they do this including exploiting vulnerabilities for doing injection or using the form to send the spam directly.
However, for the cases I’ve inspected, I’ve observed that there is no injection attempt [...]

Cisco announced it will acquire WebEx for $3.2 billion dollars. Now it’s time to play the Connect the Dots game where everyone struggles to understand the deal on a number of levels and backs up the speculation with a series of dots (including unrelated dots) to bolster their thesis.
1. Did they pay too much?
2. Are [...]

The main message of CIO Insight’s article is that NAC could require expensive network upgrades and is not ready for prime time. The market will ultimately decide if NAC makes an impact or falls back to earth failing to escape gravity.
Before deploying a NAC solution, ask yourself some questions to determine if you’ve even picked [...]

Is Consensus Decision-making the only method you use? It’s easy to fall into this trap. We are taught early and often to involve all members of the group in decision-making. The idea is that a better decision comes from gathering everyone’s input.
However, consensus decision-making really just makes the acceptance of the decision easier since everyone [...]

GoDaddy’s 52 second action has many saying they will switch their domain registrar away from GoDaddy. One site where you can research your choices is RegistrarSTATS.com . Here’s a recent graphic from them that illustrates the dominance of GoDaddy.