No two businesses are exactly alike however many businesses face similar problems. Perhaps one of the biggest challenges of business today is how to manage the large volumes of data collected by applications. How to mine this data for increased revenue and how to turn data into information which allows the business to make good management decisions.

INTERVIS: If you have ever tried to manage the different types of databases and processes which build up over a period of time in any medium or growing organisation then you will know there is no one single solution. Intervis by Datainfinity provides a means where you can see data views specific to your department or group and this information is rolled up to allow management to make strategic decisions on the organisations direction. We have examples of companies which have nearly doubled their revenue stream because they were able to correctly keep track of their product sales. The key was to integrate product lifecycle into their information systems so they could become pro-active rather than reactive and thus save their customers time and money by replacing products when they were due.

Intervis is the ideal solution for Service Maintenance contracts, Periodic maintenance on equipment and also the matching of complimenting products to increase the value of existing ones.

SPAM is increasing, as if life in business today is not hard enough spam is yet another tax on peoples time. Having to wade through email every day and then deleting mail which is spam, unwanted, generally useless, and a real pain. The good news is there are some good solutions to this scurge. Appliance based systems which can also be thought of as turnkey, you have them installed, configure your DNS and point to your mailing system such as exchange. Known spam aliases and lists are automatically updated to start capturing spam right away. You can also write your own rules so certain staff can receive email attachments that others cannot. All mail which is spam is quarantined and then automatically deleted afer a nominated time period..

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Barracuda Winner of numerous industry honors, including Network Computing's Editor's Choice Award and the 2004 and 2005 Well-Connected Awards, our flagship product, the Barracuda Spam Firewall, provides spam and virus protection for over 30,000 customers around the world. Customers include Adaptec, Knight Ridder, CBS, Coinstar, Europcar, Forbes, Georgia Institute of Technology, IBM, NASA, North Carolina Highway Patrol, Pizza Hut, Union Pacific Railroad, and the U.S. Treasury Department.

One of the most important things any organisation or business can do is to ensure there is an adaquate and tested backup solution in place. There are generally three classes of backup which are workgroup, departmental and enterprise. The workgroup backup can be as small as a single desktop PC, or it may have several PC's. In the case of a single PC you can use system backup tools to write your important files to either CD, DVD, or tape backup. In case there are several PC's the backup media requirements changes to either tape or disk., our preference is disk because of price and reliability. In departmental backup strategies with multiple machines and sites it becomes necessary to have a specialised backup program such as EMC Networker or Veritas / Symantec Net Backup. These program work by placing client agents on each of the PC's or work stations to be backed up in order to communicate with a central server which has a tape library attached. Restores can be managed either from the client or the server so administration becomes simpler. We have a number of backup solution specialists available for planning and implementing backup strategies for small and large organisations. We will provide

1) If no backup strategy is in place we will provide one

2) If there is a currently a backup strategy in use we will assess it and make recommendations on where it can be improved and draw up a change management plan to implement the recommended changes.

For more information please email ps@starmedal.com.au

LAPTOPS, DESKTOPS, SERVERS

Our range of laptop computers is growing depending on demand, we offer competitive prices on hardware supply abd we back that up with good old fashined service. We value our customers and provide customised services to meet their needs.