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Last year, we previewed our Desktop Virtualization Methodology at our Tech Day conference. If you weren't at Tech Day, we'd like to introduce you to this methodology, and begin walking you through the pieces.

The Age of Tape is over. Backup tapes are going the way of VCRs and audio cassettes. But, that doesn't mean that backing up your data is a thing of the past. In fact, it's even more important to have a solid backup plan as part of your overall data protection and recovery strategy.

Our new office is finished! We’re excited to be all settled in and ready for business. Stay tuned for updates about our upcoming office-warming party. In the meantime, here are some pictures of our new space.

VoIP is Voice over Internet Protocol, a standard method for making phone calls using a data connection instead of a traditional phone line. VoIP phones differ from traditional analogue phones, which use analogue signals over a standard phone line.

It’s been about two months since we shared any progress on our new office, so here is an update. The renovators have been hard at work getting everything ready for us. Some of the drywall is up in the office area. The conference rooms are studded and being wired. We’re excited!

Alliance Technologies is excited to announce that we’re moving into a new office after ten years in Capital Square. We’re staying downtown, but we’re moving a few blocks north to 420 Watson Powell. We hope to be moved in to our new space by early October, so right now the space is under heavy renovation!

Recently the IT news media has been abuzz with stories about loosely-organized hacker groups, their declaration of war against government and banking companies and their delegation of attacks to more secret groups. While the security industry is still analyzing the implications of these attacks, we deemed it wise to send a few security suggestions to our clients. But first, we'd like to clarify the threat. The threat stems from the fact that this activity is being tolerated and, in some cases, actively encouraged by groups of high-profile hackers and some segments of the media.

I am involved in a great many groups that are (ostensibly) focused on technology or security to some extent.  One somewhat disturbing trend that I’ve noticed in recent months is people complaining about their significant others and how they constantly put their shared system at risk through Facebook.

By now you've probably heard the big news – Dell recently bought Compellent, the storage system company. It's a reasonable match for a number of reasons.

My marketing guy says if my posts are going to rank higher on search engines, they have to be timely and call out keywords in bold and italics(and use lots of hyperlinks throughout)so today you get a post about OPERATION NIGHT DRAGON (insert ominous sound effect here).