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"As a business owner, I know you don’t have time to waste on technical and operational issues. That's where we shine! Call us and put an end to your IT problems finally and forever!"
Larry Owens, President,
IntegrIT Network Solutions, Inc. |
Volume III, Issue 1 - January
2010
Lynnwood, WA
Meet Andy Russell...
The Newest Member of
the IntegrIT Network Solutions Team!
I am pleased to announce the
addition of Andy Russell in the position of System Administrator. In this
role, Andy will be responsible for handling first level support of service requests in support of customer workstations, servers, printers, networks, and vendor specific hardware and software.
Andy has over eight years experience working in the IT field. For the past five years, Andy has been working as a server administrator / network technician. He is great at PC repair and system troubleshooting and provides superior end-user support and has spent most of his career working with small businesses.
Andy grew up in Everett and Vancouver, WA.
Please join me in welcoming
Andy.
"Who Wants To Win A Starbucks Gift Card?"
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Take our monthly Trivia Challenge and you could be a winner too! |
The Grand Prize Winner of November's Quiz is... drum roll please: Bryan Barr of Mobile Electrical Distributors, Inc. was the first person to correctly answer my quiz...
Who invented the Internet?
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The Russian Military
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Microsoft
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Al Gore
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U.S. Department of Defense.
The answer is “d” – U.S. Department of Defense.
Now…let’s move to this month's question for a $10 Starbucks Card!
How many of the Great Lakes are in both the United States
and Canada?
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Two
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One
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Three
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Four
Contact us right now with your answer!
Send us an email now
or
call us at (866) 578-6220
 The Lighter Side
The Wackiest Laws On The
Books!
Did you know that in New Hampshire
it is illegal to tap your feet, nod your
head, or keep time to the music in a
tavern, restaurant, or café? Or that
state law in Colorado allows people to
rip the tags off pillows and mattresses,
despite dire warnings not to do so.
And in Alaska, while it’s legal to
shoot bears, waking a sleeping bear
for the purposes of taking a
photograph is prohibited.
In Fairbanks, Alaska, it is considered
an offense to feed alcoholic beverages
to a moose. Sterling, Colorado has a
law on the books that states that cats
may not run loose at night without
being fit with a flashlight.
Did You Know?…
The animal with the largest brain in proportion to its size is the ant.
Temperature and crime are correlated. Many more crimes
are committed in the hot summer
months than in the cold winter
months.
Ancient Egyptians regarded the
heart as the center of intelligence
and emotion. They believed the
brain to be totally insignificant,
and during mummification, the
brain was removed…thinking it
would not be needed on the
“other side.”
Got support tickets?
Remember to send those to
support@integrit-network.com
By using this address to submit your requests, our system will automatically create a service order from the email request submitted, generate a tracking number, create workflow and alerts for our team, and send you a confirmation that your request has been received and is being taken care of. You will also receive status updates.
This process provides us with additional checkpoints, follow-up and confirmations - allowing us to greatly improve upon the exceptional service you’ve come to expect from IntegrIT Network Solutions, Inc.
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Insider Tips To Make Your Business Run Faster, Easier, And More Profitably
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IntegrIT Network Solutions, Inc., Bringing Integrity and IT Together™
New Year's Resolution - Optimize Your Network
In the last few days of December, people look back at their previous year and look forward to the next.
Because of this, the age-old tradition of declaring a New Year's resolution came about in an effort to improve yourself in the new year.
Each year, 45% of people make New Year's resolutions such as "become healthier," "spend more time with family," "quit smoking,"
or "get out of debt." Why not resolve to hiring
a Full Service IT Service you
can depend on? Or, if you currently have IT support, you can resolve to take your technology to the next level, or evaluate your current network, which will reveal conflicts,
security loop holes, and other flaws in your network.
So, what's your resolution for 2010?
Happy New Year from
IntegrIT Network Solutions, Inc.!
How long can you afford to have your email down?
Businesses today rely more and more on email to communicate with their clients, vendors, and employees.
Email is so ingrained in the way we do business today, that we just take it for granted it will be available and can retrieve it as we need it.
But what happens when it is not available?
Or, what happens when you are frantically trying to retrieve an email that contains critical,
time sensitive data pertaining to an RFQ you are trying to get out before the end of the day?
Before you attempt to answer either of these questions, consider this:
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A 5,000 employee health insurance company in the Midwest estimated it lost $3 million in
productivity and business during an eight-hour outage, according to MessageOne, after the data center manager, giving a tour to his family,
flipped what he thought was a light switch that turned out to be an ill-placed control for an entire bank of servers.
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A prominent, high-tech law firm has wood frame office buildings on its Palo Alto, California, campus, one of which had to be
shut down and fumigated because of a termite infestation. Nobody could get into the building, which so happens to house the firm’s regional data center
and email servers. While they were prepared for outages, termites were never part of their disaster recovery plan.
The answer is simple. Email has to be up all the time, everywhere.
Email downtime exposes companies, especially those subject to strict regulation, to legal ramifications. Say the company's email
goes down and your employees turn to Hotmail or Gmail accounts – if that email ever gets subpoenaed for discovery, it will be hard to find.
The horror stories range from the typical –
Network failures, database corruptions, and power outages – to the
downright bizarre.
In a survey commissioned by MessageOne, 48% of companies said they had major email outages within the last six months,
and half said their last major outage lasted longer than three hours. Yet only 8% of
those companies had email continuity plans, only 29% use data replication
or mirroring to protect email servers, and just about half have tape backups for email.
For more information on
how to ensure your email is always available even if your mail server is down or to
request a free audit of your email continuity plan, send an email to needhelpnow@integrit-network.com.
About the Author:
Larry Owens is President and Chief Technologist at IntegrIT Network Solutions, Inc. For more information go to
www.integrit-network.com.
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Please Welcome Our Newest Client
We’re thrilled to welcome our newest client! I want to extend a sincere “thanks” for the
trust and confidence this client have shown in us:
Rodriguez Law PS of Seattle
Thank You, Rosa!
Meet our Featured Partner of the Month ~ Reflexion Networks
Reflexion Networks provides a suite of hosted solutions that address widespread customer
requirements for a safe and productive email and web experience, continuous email availability even during business outages, and guaranteed email
retention for regulatory compliance, legal protection, or the preservation of the intellectual property so often stored in email.
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Reflexion Total Control: With over 6,000 “main street” customers around the world,
Reflexion protects your inbound and outbound email from spam, viruses, and phishing exploits.
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Rapid Archiving, Discovery and Recovery, known as RADAR, provides an active, encrypted and compressed email archive for
assured email retention and Web-based email access during local email server and business outages. Customer demand for RADAR is often driven by legal and
compliance considerations, such as mandated by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, but is often simply seen as prudent management for financial and professional
services firms, such as doctors, lawyers, architects, and engineering firms.
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URL filtering is essential for implementing an Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) to reduce workplace risks and avoid employee productivity drains,
and for protecting employees against insidious Web-borne threats, such as Trojans, keystroke-loggers, and click-jacking, which are used in identity theft.
For more information,
send us an email now
or call us at
(866) 578-6220.
About Reflexion Networks:
Reflexion Networks provides a range of managed email services that are differentiated by their ease of implementation and use,
their unique features and effectiveness, and their affordability. Reflexion’s services are available through over 400 IT solution providers and ISPs in 40 countries.
The company was founded in 2001 and is located outside Boston, MA.
Client Spotlight: Anchor Medical Clinic
Every month we choose a very special person to be our “Client of the Month.” It’s our way of acknowledging
clients and thanking those who support us and our business with referrals and repeat business.
 This month’s featured client is
Dr. Heidi Rendall, M.D., founder of Anchor Medical Clinic, located in Mukilteo. Anchor Medical Clinic is a
Direct Medical Practice for Individuals & Families. A direct medical practice allows Dr. Heidi Rendall and her staff the time and flexibility to provide
the patient-focused health care that today’s health care delivery system has derailed. She takes the time to get to know you as an individual, not just
through a medical chart, thereby working with you to improve or maintain your health. This is health care with compassion! To learn more, visit
www.anchormedicalclinic.com.
Here’s what Dr. Rendall has to say about us: "We have been working with IntegrIT Network Solutions,
Inc. for over 3 years and they continue to provide outstanding service to us. We rely on them for all of our IT needs and to monitor our network,
which helps us provide the type of service to our patients that they demand. Their proactive monitoring service provides me with great comfort!"
Thank you for being our featured Client of The Month, we appreciate you! As a token of our appreciation we’re giving you a $25 gas gift card!
 Computer Tip of the Month
Take care of your computer and it will last longer – Give it a physical Checkup Once a month!
Just as important as making sure your computer is free of spyware, viruses, and keeping it clean on the inside, is keeping it clean
and healthy on the outside. Here are some tips to keep your computer safe
from its external environment:
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Good Ventilation -- Place your computer system in
a cold and clean environment so that the ventilation hole in
the monitor can let the monitor cool. Don’t place objects on the top of the monitor, doing so could block the ventilation holes and result in overheating.
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Clean Environment -- Dust can go into your casing and cause a lot of problems.
Generally it keeps the components inside the computer from cooling down properly. Eventually you will either have to dust the inside of your computer or
have a professional clean it for you. To help limit this you should keep dust out of the computer. Keep your computer in an area that has little dust
accumulation or build up. Wipe down the outside of your computer at least once a week to avoid dust collecting and working its way into your computer.
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Drinking and Eating -- Avoid eating and drinking over the keyboard as eatables and drinks liquidity can damage your keyboard.
However, everyone is guilty of munching and typing, and too often the results rattle around just beneath the keys on your board.
Buy a compressed air can. First it's best you turn the computer off. Shut it down and turn the power switch off. Then take a compressed air can.
Use it to clean off any dust or food crumbs inside your keyboard. Using a compressed air can allows you get between the keys, where a lot of dust and debris have built up.
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Heat and Cold -- Be careful about heat and cold atmosphere where you have placed your computer.
Heat is very hazardous to your computer and it may cause failure of hardware.
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Moisture -- Avoid moisturized environments for
your computers.
Moisture can damage your commuter hardware and its performance can be degraded because moisture creates a Zink layer on silver-made components of
your computer.
Call before February 20 and get our "New Year Super Value Service Call" for only $99.00
It's a new year and what better time for a computer network health check! For only $99, we’ll send a technician to your office to:
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Verify your data backups are working and could be restored in the event of a disaster.
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Review your firewall and security against hackers and viruses. |
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Check for system errors, conflicts, and other problems that can slow down your network. |
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CALL TODAY: 425-787-0193 Offer Expires February 20, 2010
We’ve made some changes in our office to better serve you. Here’s what’s going on:
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New Hire, Andy Russell, joins IntegrIT Network Solutions as our new System Administrator, giving our customers more resources for support. Welcome Andy! |
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We've given our
Website a face lift and added more information such as copies of our monthly
newsletters, a feed from our blog site with helpful
tips and tricks, and much more! Take a look around at
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A new
Cash Referral Program where you can submit referrals and earn up to $500 in cash!! For more information and to submit your referrals, visit out web site at
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With this new electronic version available, you now have the option to opt out of the printed version we are currently mailing to your office. If you would like to "opt out"
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