Big in the news this week was the announcement that Google are taking on Facebook with their own social network called "Google+". One of Google's major advantages (or +'s ... hence the name perhaps?) over Facebook is the promise of video chat.

With the news still resonating in our ears Facebook made their own big announcement that they are introducing Video Chat in partnership with now Microsoft-owned Skype. Google's initial excitement balloon had a great deal of air let out by this announceme...
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This is a question I am getting asked more and more frequently. With cloud services now well established, businesses are now planning which services to embrace and when to jump on board. One such service is online backup, but how secure is your data with an online backup provider?

Let's start by looking at a few basic truths. Data centres are purpose-built facilities designed to host company and consumer data safely and securely. An average server in a commercial office sits behind a mid-range...
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No you don't. Not anymore. With cloud-based services becoming more and more mainstream, and what with up to 20Mb broadband you really don't need an inhouse server for your small business. Let's look at a few quick reasons why:

1) Zero advantage to having an inhouse Exchange Server
In fact I'd go as far as to say you're at a disadvtange if you have an in-house Exchange server. In-house servers are more expensive to buy and maintain than hosted services, they aren't any faster and you still have ...
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