Why Should You Consider Going the Outsourcing Route for IT Services?

There’s no question that we are in the era of Big Data. Just think of the many ways we use the web. We go on social networks and post images, status updates, real-time tweets, pictures of our favorite clothes and more on a daily basis. We pay our bills and shop from our Wish Lists. We email on our personalized accounts and save documents onto cloud-based storage spaces. All of these things produce data, and as our production of data proliferates, the need for greater storage capacity as well as network optimization to ensure maximum uptime and security becomes greater.
Unfortunately, though, for a small or medium sized enterprise, this could be very problematic. The amount of money it takes to store all of this data, maintain and update current hardware, cool down that existing hardware, and hire and train new staff could take up a significant portion of the business’s budget. Add on top of that the fact that IT staff has to focus on daily troubleshooting rather than work on Big Picture items that could be more beneficial for the company, and one could see why more and more businesses are choosing to outsource their IT services.
In 2012, businesses spent more than 23% of their IT budget on outsourced services, and this number is sure to go up by the end of 2013. If you’re still on the fence of whether or not you should look into managed IT services, here are some things to keep in mind:

• Scalability: With managed IT services, you’ll have the infrastructure in place to scale your storage capabilities to contend with whatever demands the future holds.
• Lower Costs: Maintaining one’s own data center costs money. If it’s not in new hardware, it’s in maintaining current hardware. By outsourcing these things, you can avoid many of these costs, so you can concentrate your resources elsewhere.
• Security: Security is a major concern for any business as data has become a big business on its own.  Therefore, you need to protect against threats that could compromise your system. Managed hosting services will include the latest anti-virus software to combat any threats. This is especially important if you’re in an industry that demands compliance.
• Expertise: Unfortunately, it can be tough to stay up to date on all of the technologies that are out there. There is so much out there that hiring your own panel of experts can be overwhelming and seemingly impossible. Because an outsourced data center’s business is IT services, it will have dedicated experts in place who can tailor a solution for your business.
• Disaster Recovery: With 24x7x365 monitoring, you will stay in business all of the time. If there is a disaster of any kind, like a natural disaster or human error, you will quickly go back online as there will be measures in place to avoid a long term outage.
• Focus: With outsourced IT services, you can focus on the things that matter and not have to worry about the little IT things that might occur. You’ll have the peace of mind of knowing your network will be up to date and ready to handle any challenges that you might confront in this new way to do business. 

Jim Sanders writes on IT issues and cloud computing for small businesses. He freelances for many IT companies in the Mid-Atlantic 

Firefox 26 Beta version is ready for testing!

With the current beta version of the Mozilla browser Firefox 26, is ready for testing. What's new Firefox users expect here follows Since the Mozilla Firefox 16 team tinkers on the "Click to Play" function. That prevents the browser plug-ins such as Flash, Java or Silver light loads automatically. Only on explicit request of the user can reload the content in question. In Firefox 26, the function will block almost all plug-ins for the first time by default. Because still very common on the net, Flash content is excluded from the rule.

However, only the latest version of the Flash plug-in - with old versions uses click-to -play and prompts you to install the latest version. Do you want Firefox still displays the relevant content; you must select it with a click on that window. Mozilla wants to give users more control over the browser now days. In addition, Firefox handle it one of the largest gateways for malware and resource hog. In terms of safety caused mainly Java in recent past for negative headlines, why Mozilla had originally planned, Java already from Firefox to disable 24 - due to technical problems but Mozilla had to step undo.

So far, Firefox uses the function to block outdated plug -ins. To check if any updates are available for your plug-ins, refer to the plug-in check by Mozilla. The new function not only protects your system, but at the same time preserves the memory as Firefox blocked videos, upload pictures or animations only after your approval. Shumway is also with Mozilla since November 2012 and working on a Flash alternative to open-source basis. In contrast to the current de facto standard for multimedia content on the network Mozilla is focusing its project on open standards like HTML5 and JavaScript.

Unlike Flash, Shumway runs on platforms like Android or iOS, which have to do without Flash. For those interested, test applications are available on a dedicated website. In Firefox 26 Mozilla extended to support various media formats. So the browser is now playing from on PCs with Windows XP MP3 files without having to rely on external programs. Linux users in turn are pleased with the support of the video codec H.264, which requires the installation of the appropriate GStreamer plug-ins. In order not to annoy Windows users with constant update messages, the browser also automatically updated in the future. So users do not run with the risk of getting stuck with an outdated and unsecured browser installation.

From Firefox 26 that works well if the logged user does not have write permissions in the Firefox folder. For this to work, you need to activate the Mozilla Maintenance Service in the settings. In Firefox 26 Mozilla extends the Social API introduced with Firefox 17. The new version allows multiple social services enable parallel so that you receive, for example, status messages or chat messages from different networks. Mozilla has also improved the built - in Firefox password manager. The script now supports -generated password fields. Also, the Android version of Firefox gets some new things donated.

Unlike its predecessors, this time from the list falls not so extensive. Besides the improvement of the password Manger - keeps inroads into the desktop version - get the Firefox app a New Home. Under about: home Find now summarized all important data. By swiping you instantly call up your history, bookmarks and reading list of pages you've marked to read later on. To change the developers have about three months modernized and cleaned up code as Mozilla developer Lucas Rocha writes.

 New in Firefox 26, the app manager is the replaces the current simulator “Dashboard “. The tool helps developers build HTML5 -held Web and test apps for Firefox OS. Which innovations, Web developers may still pleased the professionals have compiled separately. Mozilla Firefox 26 will implement the long-standing barrier announced plug-ins. This is to be welcomed, if thereby the development and distribution of open web standards like HTML5 is promoted.

However, the move is not without risk: All alerts and non-functioning websites lead to more frustration rather than awareness. Mozilla risk for the popularity of the service is aware of its own. This demonstrates the fact that the Flash player is excluded from the measure. In addition, developers hone a number of corners, which makes Firefox 26 quite an interesting release.

Samsung Galaxy S4 leads the iPhone 5S in Battery Duration!

The Association of British consumers tested the independence of the newest Smartphones with respect to their batteries. The result is clear and unfavorable Apple. The UK based consumer organization tested the capacity of batteries of the latest Smartphones available in the market.

The association is only interested to focus in two criteria particularly the life of batteries in use and call duration while surfing the internet. In any case, it appears that the winner is Samsung with its Galaxy S4. The Korean phone giant’s Galaxy S4 is in lead with charge of about 1051 minutes of talk time and 405 minutes internet use.

 The latest Smartphone iPhone 5S from Apple brand arrives at the fourth position in the ranking of the call time and the seventh for the internet use. That is of 55 % and 26% of batteries in less time compared to Samsung.

Call time of each is as follows: the HTC One who ranks second with a range of 771 minutes (27 % less than Samsung) and the Galaxy mini S4 with 746 minutes of autonomy in call time. The BlackBerry Z10 is only fifth with 40 % battery in less than its competitor S4.

On the use battery time in internet use, Samsung is still very strong. He came in second place with his mini S4 has 394 minutes of battery life, according to which the mini take the upper hand in this category after the HTC One

Best ways to create a websites screenshots

Making a screenshot is a wonderful thing which let you to capture the Awesome moments while you were performing an operation on your local machine or in your laptop.You can also store the information in your device, which are hard to save or store using ordinary methods. By taking screen shots you can even also monitor the various activities of your device when anyone is using your device. You can easily check out the different activities of your local machine user by taking screen shots of your screen or your window. In this post you can learn the various ways through which you can easily take screenshots of the webpages which you were surfing in the Internet. You cannot easily save images by right clicking over it and click save Image in a right click protected websites. In such cases, you can take screenshots of the websites by using the screenshots and process it over image processing software. Here I have discussed two ways of taking screenshot of websites by very easy way. They are given as follows;

By using Print Screen Button

Print screen Button is a button which is an existing key in your keyboard. Your device might be a Personal computer or a laptop, the Print Screen Button is present in your keyboard. The actual work of the print screen keyboard will exactly captures what is going on your screen. This key is also used to take snaps of the website which you were surfing over the internet. Suppose if you were surfing the website which is currently protected by the right-click pressing, you can easily store the various elements which are present in the website. By pressing the print screen key, you can exactly captures what is going over the window screen and stores over the clipboard of your window. You can save the clipboard image by simply opening a photo editing tool in your operating system ( say Microsoft Paint for Windows Operating system and also you can use Adobe Photoshop to save the clipboard image) and open a new file and then paste the image over the document. That all! You have successfully taken a snapshot of the website. This is the simplest way to take a snapshot of a website.

By using PhotoScape Screen Shot Tool 

PhotoScape is a best photo editing tool which comes around only 16MB of size and can be downloaded very easily over the internet. You can install this application on your windows operating system and you can open the application for easy web snap shots. Once you open the application, you will get a list of menu in which you can easily found an option named as Screen Shot. When you select that tool, a tiny window appears over the screen and which let you take screen shot of any part of your window. You can easily capture various part of your window using that tool. When you snap a part of your window, it will automatically open that part of the screen in the PhotoScape. This is my favourite tool to snap everything on my window.

Smartphone Namo A Whole Review

Nowadays having a high end smartphone is becoming a passion for most of the teenagers around the globe. Race for the Technology has been increased which results in implementing various kinds of technologies in the smartphones itself. Android and iOS has an immense race which cause the manufacturers to discover the devices with extra ordinary features. Likewise a manufacturer from China has manufactured a smartphone and named as Smartphone Namo. That company invented a smartphone with extra ordinary features and dedicated for the Narendra Modi.

A china company which was manufacturing a successful smartphone OEM, wants to launch its product in our country. And also that manufacturing company wants to choose a better name so that it will run perfectly in the Indian Market. This leads them to choose the various name and they come with the name Namo which represent the name of the Narendra Modi. Na stands for the first part of the name Narendra and Second part of the name Mo represent the Modi. This Smartphone has a several features which do have in the high end smart phone as well as the top best mobiles.

Operating System: 

The Smartphone Namo runs on the Android Operating System and it has the android version Jelly Bean. You can easily download millions of applications from the play store very easily. It has enough hardware capabilities to upgrade the operating system with the new versions of the android operating system.

Interface: 

The Smartphone Namo comes with a brilliant interface and it is pre-loaded with the BJP themes. Also various applications for BJP fans are installed predefined in this SmartPhone. The manufacturers of this smartphones have promised in their proposal that they will deliver many applications for the mobile who were in BJP.

Processor: 

The Smartphone Namo has a processor of 1.5 GHz and you it comes with tons of high end graphics application support. The smartphone has both RAM and ROM which makes you to use the mobile very perfectly. Camera: The Smartphone has a brilliant camera of 13 mega-pixel which allows its user to capture their awesome moments with clarity and perfectness.

Display: 

The Smartphone Namo has a display of 5 inch screen size and you can use this mobile for many uses. This mobile also comes with Gorilla Scratch Resistive screen display which prevents your mobile from various scratches over the screen display.