With an ever-growing, captive audience spending hours on end surfing the web, many companies are refocusing a large portion of their marketing and advertising efforts from traditional channels to the internet. Because of this many new advertising and marketing agencies are springing up to fill this need. One such agency is Direct Agents. Founded in 2003, Direct Agents offers services in affiliate marketing, lead generation, media buying, and search marketing.

One of the biggest challenges facing the company was its unfiltered network. Up until 2008, each of Direct Agents 50 employees chose and installed their own antivirus software. As a result of this...

Recently New Orleans Rapper Lil Wayne had his new single, Prom Queen, leak onto the internet a couple of days before it was set to be released. This isn’t the first time Weezy has had this happen to him. While he was recording his last album, the multi-platinum smash Tha Carter III, more than an album’s worth of songs made it on to the web or on mix tapes. These leaks may have cost Wayne some money in the short term, but they ultimately created enough buzz to make him a near unanimous choice as...

When most people think about granola, they probably don’t think of cutting edge technology, but at Golden Temple of Oregon, a producer of wholesale natural foods, they are combining the two to create a successful, secure and well managed company.

One area where Golden Temple is leading the way with its use technology is with its virtualization strategy. Golden Temple is using Symantec Backup Exec 12 and VMware’s Virtual Consolidated Backup function to perform complete backups of its two VMware ESX servers. It is also beta testing Backup Exec 12.5 which will have a virtual agent to facilitate VMware backups...

Over the years mergers and acquisitions have become more and more commonplace. Symantec, for example, has been involved in 57 mergers and acquisitions and counting since its founding in 1982. Combining two companies is not an easy process. One key obstacle is integrating IT environments, which can prove difficult, especially if the environments aren’t 100 percent compatible.

That was the challenge facing MM Electrical Merchandising (MMEM) when it decided to consolidate its data center infrastructure with one if its sister companies, Vinidex Pty Limited. MMEM was using Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 while Vinidex was using Lotus Notes. Vinidex already had an email archiving solution in place but the solution wasn’t really meeting its needs and it...