Take 5.....

Life Before the Computer

• An application was for employment
• A program was a TV show
• A cursor used profanity
• A keyboard was a piano
• Memory was something you lost with age
• A CD was a bank account
• Compress was something you did to garbage not something you did to a file
• If you unzipped anything in public, you would be in jail for a while.
• Log on was adding wood to a fire.
• A hard drive was a long road trip
• A back up is something that happened to your commode
• Cut is what you did with a pocket knife
• Paste is what you did with glue.
• A web was a spiders home
• And a virus was the flu
  

Out of the Office

A note from Adam:

I will be out of the office from August 7th through August 16th, returning on August 17th. If you need assistance in my absence, please contact our office at (803)329-2867 and ask to speak with Jennifer or William.

Thank you,

Adam Marshall

President

Servcom USA, LLC

Take 5.....

The Lord's Prayer
A mother had been teaching her three-year daughter, Caitlin, the Lord's prayer. For several evenings at bedtime, she would repeat after her mother the lines from the prayer.

Finally, she decided to go solo. The mother listened with pride as she carefully enunciated each word, right up to the end of the prayer: "Lead us not into temptation," she prayed, "but deliver us some E-mail. Amen."

Take 5.....

Computers vs. Auto Industry

Bill Gates wanted to look good and impress everyone with his success.
He decided to measure the accomplishments of Microsoft against
General Motors. The comparison went like this:
If automotive technology had kept pace with computer technology over the past few decades, you would now be driving a V-32 instead of a V-8, and it would have a top speed of 10,000 miles per hour. Or you could have an economy car that weighs 30 pounds and gets a thousand miles to a gallon of gas. In either case the sticker price of a new car would be less than $50. In response to all this goading, GM responds: "Yes, but would you really want to drive a car that crashes twice a day?"

CLOSING DATES

**ServcomUSA closing dates**
July 3rd (Independence Day)
August 21st (Technician Training)
September 7th (Labor Day)
October 12th (Columbus Day)
November 11th (Veteran's Day) 26th-27th (Thanksgiving)
December 23rd-27th (Christmas)

Important Update to Servcom USA Support Icon

Our Servcom USA Support Icon has been updated. This update has improved the speed of our remote connections quite a bit. However, the old icon is no longer supported and will not work.

If you have the Servcom USA Support Icon on your desktop, please download the new one from this blog page using the links to the right of this post. Please make sure of the following:

• Remove the current icon from your desktop by dragging it to the Recycle Bin.
• If your computer is running Vista, please download the Servcom USA Support (Vista) file.
• If you are using an Apple, please download the Servcom USA Support (MAC) file.
  
• Save the new file to your desktop. (We usually put it in the upper right-hand corner for you.)

If you are the network administrator or you share a computer with other people (but you use different accounts), please call us to have us update the icon for you.

High Returns on Monitoring

We’ve been expanding our 24x7 Network Monitoring for a few months now, and I thought it was a good time to dig into the statistics of how our clients are doing. This afternoon I ran the numbers on our clients who have adopted a proactive approach to their network maintenance, and I found these statistics (all stats are from 1 January, 2009 to today):

 

·         Clients using our network monitoring program have an average network uptime over 95%.

·         Those same clients’ median uptime was greater than 96%.

·         30% have uptimes of 99.5% or higher.

 

This is the good news. The great news is that we are just getting started. Our goal is to push our median uptime over 97% and have 50% of our monitored clients at 99.5% by the end of the year.

 

How did these business achieve such outstanding number? By making the most of their IT resources. They have invested in a tool that lets them know how well those resources are being used. We use it to prevent downtime, which stifles productivity. And we help them identify inefficiencies that could hold back their businesses, especially in this economy. So even in a down economy, these clients are seeing substantial returns on their IT investments.

                                                                                                                                                                                    

So is your business one of our success stories? Without our monitoring, can your business achieve numbers like these? Are you getting the most out of your IT infrastructure?

 

Call or email us today to schedule a free demo of our 24x7 Network Monitoring program.