Hard Drive Shortage to affect PC Deliveries for year end

Recent rain storms affecting Thialand will have an impact on desktop and laptop availability in the fourth quarter of this year.  About half the hard drives used in the world are manufactured in Thialand.  The plants had to be closed due to flooding and are scheduled to be offline for at least several weeks.  The result will be a hard drive shortage that will affect product availability between now and the end of the year.  Get your orders in early to ensure you get the computers you need!

Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft’s Office in the Cloud

Microsoft Office 365 was launched by Microsoft over the summer as Microsoft’s latest cloud product offering.  Building on its past experience with Microsoft Online, the Office 365 product offering is feature rich, inexpensive and reliable.  Click here to learn more about the Microsoft Office 365 cloud offering and if it may be right for your business.

Marshall Wright NJ HITEC Field Representative

Marshall Wright has become a NJ HITEC Field Representative helping primary care providers select and implement Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems. Marshall also teaches in the EHR program at Brookdale Community College.

Malware causes HIPAA and PCI Breaches

Malware and viruses have become a major source of breaches as defined by HIPAA and PCI requirements. A single employee’s computer that has an infection could be feeding sensitive data to criminals. Click here to read an article discussing the threats and regulations.

Last Virus Threat is deadly

The latest virus threat we have encountered, the bloodhound.exploit, is the most serious virus threat to hit out customer’s networks in the past several years. In addition to infecting the machine that opens an infected e-mail or visits an infected web site, the virus spreads itself through network connects and can infest a customer’s server. The malware seeks user names and passwords and financial data on the infected machines. The virus damages the Master Boot Record causing the computer to display symptoms of a bad hard disk after rebooting. The result may be a need to reload the operating system.

Cloud Servers and Small Business – perfect together!

With high speed internet access and the introduction of Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 for desktop and mobile computing, the ability to have your company’s server or servers hosted on the internet is becoming a reality.  Reclaim the space used up by your data center by moving servers into the clouds.  Click here to read an article about a recently completed project for a customer.

Why all Bandwidth is not the same

With all the options for bandwidth, how do you determine what is the right option to solve your information systems problem.  All bandwidth is not equal.  This article discusses the differences between bandwidth choices in layman terms.  Click here to find out how to evaluate bandwidth options.

SonicWall – How to access Log Reports

If you own a SonicWall firewall you can quickly get some useful information on your internet usage.  Click here to watch our “how to” video on access these reports on a SonicWall firewall.

Outlook – How to Archive e-mail

The You Tube video shows how to archive old e-mails in Microsoft Outlook 2007.  Click here to check out the video.  DeckerWright Corporation is an IT Consulting company in Red Bank, New Jersey.

EHR Meaningful Use Stage 1 Criteria – the real deal

Every Electronic Health Records, EHR, vendor on the market today has come out with their version of “meaningful use” to encourage doctors to purchase their software.  Unfortunately, many of the claims are gross interpretations of regulations.  In order to provide our customers with the right information I reviewed the final regulations to summarize the “meaningful use” stage 1 requirements.  Click here to read the full article.