Welcome to 2010! I wish you a very happy and prosperous New Year. Thank you for your continued business and a successful 2009. I am truly looking forward to working with you in 2010 and our goal is to be an integral part of your successful business. A new year is a great time to re-visit your company’s goals and objectives, including technology. CorCystems would like to help you with your planning and ensuring that you are getting the greatest return from your technology investments and insure that your business is running smart. Feel free to reach out to us, we’re here for you.

CorCystems just celebrated its 10th year anniversary this month and I want to personally thank you and our employees for making that possible. I have truly enjoyed the past ten years and have found them very rewarding. From meeting new people and learning from great entrepreneurs, to delivering solutions that help power your business and help you achieve your goals, my time has been both pleasurable and memorable and I look forward to working with you in the future. Again, thank you and I wish you continued success and happiness.

Tony DeMarco
President
CorCystems, Inc.

Replace your Old Technology Now and Save
reprinted with permission from the HP Small Business Center

It can be tempting to avoid new purchases when dealing with a tight budget or a need to cut costs. When it comes to your office’s computer equipment, however, delaying a PC refresh can actually increase your operating expenses. Maintenance and support costs go up significantly over time, and productivity goes down.

Learn about the major costs associated with maintaining and supporting PCs and the six ways in which a PC refresh can benefit your business.

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Hurricanes, earthquakes and other natural events are disasters in every sense of the word. Lives are lost, property decimated and entire communities disrupted.

For your small business, these events can be just as devastating. But there's a great deal you can do — both to prepare before a disaster strikes and afterwards, to get your business back on its feet quickly.

Here are 10 tips to better protect your business and, if damage occurs, what you can do to speed your recovery.

The first five tips will help you protect your business:

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A recent study conducted by Insight Express showed that 30% of IT managers estimated that their companies lose at least $10,000 in revenue and productivity after a server failure. For 85% of the respondents, recovering from a server failure takes two or more hours.

The same survey, however, found that many businesses lack backup plans or recovery measures. Thirty-five percent of those surveyed don't back up on a regular basis. Insight Express also found that 54% don't see the need to back up their entire systems more than once a month.

And here's something else to consider: Gartner Research has stated that two out of five enterprises that experienced a disaster went out of business in five years.

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January 2010
In this issue:

Flip Video Unveils FlipShare TV System

By Greg Tarr -- TWICE, 12/2/2009
San Francisco - Cisco's Flip Video, which markets Flip Video camcorders, introduced Wednesday a wireless home-video-sharing system called FlipShare TV.

The system, which is available now for a $149 suggested retail, is designed to help users create a Flip Video library of photos and videos on a PC and send them to TV screens located anywhere in the house, without wires.

The delivery system employs a wireless 802.11n point-to-point proprietary interface and does not require an in-home Wi-Fi network.

In addition to sharing video in the home, users will be able to share video instantly with other FlipShare TV owners.

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Today's Quotes

“A computer once beat me at
chess, but it was no match for
me at kick boxing.”

– Emo Philips
 

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