Irregardless of company size, IT has become an indispensable part of running successful business operations.

Most of the time, IT means only purchasing software together with expensive servers. Over the years, typical SME IT infrastructure consists of a mixture of old and new servers and plus a mess of software. Furthermore, SME has no simple and resilient IT infrastructure that safeguards their mission critical servers that their day-to-day operations are rely on. Would it be great if a simple IT setup can come with cost saving, scalability, investment protection and even high availability (HA) in mind?

Virtualization is the answer. In layman terms, server virtualization means consolidating many physical servers into a few powerful servers reserving their individual functionality to the end users. (Yes, from the users' point of view, there exists a number of servers in the company environment but practically there is only one or a few servers.)

Server Virtualization brings the following advantages:

1. Cost Saving:  In terms of physical server investment, energy consumption and server management, virtualization has obvious advantages.
   
   
2. Software Investment Protection: SME owners usually frustrated by being forced to change their hardware or operating systems due to hardware failure or obsolete in software. Hardware and software are strong tied. Virtualization frees them by transforming the Operating Systems and software into hardware independent. This prolongs the software life cycle and makes a system easy to be ported.
   
   
3. Backup: Virtualization makes backup of whole system becomes much more easy -- the restoration becomes a snap. With proper planning of backup strategy, critical systems can be easily ported or rebuilt in a very short period of time compared to any of traditional methods.
   
   
4. High Availability: High availability no longer means expensive cluster hardware investment with expensive licensing in software. Virtualization empowers business owners to have HA in surprisingly low cost by using appropriate SAN (Storage Area Network).

Would like to know what we can offer, please tell us your IT challenges and see how we can help you through cost effective VMware Virtualization Technology.

GFI Software provides the single best source of network security, content security and messaging software for small to medium sized businesses. With award-winning technology, an aggressive pricing strategy, and a strong focus on the unique requirements of small to medium sized businesses, GFI Software satisfies the needs of SMB organizations on a global scale since 1992.

There are 3 main categories of GFI product lines, i.e. Web & Mail Security (GFI MailEssentials, GFI MailSecurity, GFI MailDefence Suite, GFI WebMonitor), Archiving & Fax (GFI MailArchiver for Microsoft Exchange, GFI Faxmaker) and Networking & Security (GFI LANguard, GFI EventsManager, GFI Servers Monitor, GFI Endpoint Security).

GFI is now giving attractive pricing to be inline with the global economic situation. GFI LANguard is freeware for 5-IP scanning, and GFI Home Backup is full-feature freeware for home and personal backup purposes.

To have an overview of how GFI can help your business, click here!

With the increasing complexity of modern business development, computer networks -- especially in the corporate environment, are playing an important role to provide fast and stable connectivity to all computer users.

However, it is very common for business owners or IT administrator to overlook the importance of network switches.

The dumb switch era is ending. It is time for corporate world to seriously look into their computer networks for manageability, high availability and security!

We have experts who deals with HP ProCruve, Cisco and even Extreme Networks managed switches, routers and devices. Talk to us about your corporate network and we will transform it! 

As stated in a recent announcement in TMnet website, TM is deploying its antispam excercise to block all Dynamic IP users (dial-ups, Streamyx) from using standard port 25 (SMTP) for email delivery.

The exercise has started in Brickfields and Klang Valley and very soon will be spread nationwide.

For our mail hosting clients, you may want to change your SMTP port in email client to 587 now. The step-by-step procedure can be found in this URL link-How to configure port 587 for client.

We hope that Tm's new approach can significantly reduce the spam activities in the country.