DISCOVER HOW NEW TECHNOLOGY ON THE MICROSOFT ACROSS AMERICA TRUCK CAN HELP YOU

Network Management Group, Inc. and Microsoft are rolling into town in a state-of-the-art truck loaded with exciting new technology products that can help you achieve your business goals. The Microsoft Across America Truck is a hands-on interactive environment packed with workstations featuring Windows Vista™ and Microsoft® Office 2007, a Tablet PC, a Windows Server and much more.

Come see us at the 2008 Business Technology Expo on March 27 from 1:00pm to 5:00pm at the Kansas State Fairgrounds Encampment Building. Experience new live demos and get your business’ technology questions answered. You can learn how specific products from Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, SonicWall, Webroot, Liebert, Alltel and others work together to create a unified solution that fits your unique business technology needs.

For more information or to register contact Tom Hammersmith at 664-6000 ext. 132, or register online by clicking here.

(click here for printable map and directions of fairgrounds)

Preserve and Protect Your Data

Summary
As the amount of data being created continues to increase, and that info is accessed and shared by more people, SMBs can't afford to ignore the need for data protection.

Small and medium businesses are powered by information.
Should your business lose that information or even suffer an interruption in access, it can have serious consequences. When it comes to protecting their electronic data, some SMBs feel they are at a disadvantage because they lack the large budgets and dedicated IT staff that many large enterprises enjoy.

While this may be true, that doesn’t detract from the fact that SMBs face the same fundamental data protection concerns as large businesses, as no business is too small to be immune to data loss. As the amount of data being created continues to increase, and that info is accessed and shared by more people, you can’t afford to ignore the need for data protection.

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Virtualization Overview
by Jane Cage, COO, HTS

We live in a world that constantly forces us to “do more with less”. Employees are expected to be more efficient. Multi-function devices are becoming the standard on many desktops. We multi-task by answering email, talking on the phone and reviewing a spreadsheet – all at the same time.

We shouldn’t be surprised then that IT departments are asking the same of their fileservers. When server utilization gets measured, we find that many servers have much more capacity than they actually use for the majority of the time. With so much excess capacity – why not run more than one server on a single machine? That’s what virtualization is all about -- one physical machine running more than one server operating system.

Virtualization is a “hot” technology right now and here are some of the reasons why: