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23-Feb-2012
Looking at upgrading your PCs, server or Microsoft Office products ? Check out this great offer from
Need to upgrade to Windows 7 from the soon to be unsupported Windows XP?
Still running Office 2003 or Office 2007? Check out the offer from Microsoft below.
By signing up to a new Microsoft Open License agreement, you can save up to $7,500 on the cost of your licenses. WOW!!!
What do you need to purchase on order to get this great deal? Just purchase a minimum of 5 licenses of any of the following:
- Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
- Microsoft Office Professional 2010 or
- Windows Server 2008 Standard or Enterprise
Why choose a Microsoft Volume Open License?
It can provide you with a much easier path to maintaining you licenses and not having those licenses tied to individual hardware.. How many times have you had to purchase a new version of Office because you purchased a new PC? Volume licensing gets around those issues.
For more information check out the Microsoft web page in the link box below, go to:
http://www.microsoft.com/business/en-au/Store/Pages/mycash.aspx or contact HighPoint Computer Solutions to discuss you needs today. 1300 79 2225 or www.hcs.com.au
09-Feb-2012
Paul's Point - To Cloud or not to Cloud - Is that the question??
No its not!The question is – what are my requirements for my business and how do we achieve them together?
Increasingly over the last two years Cloud has become a valid option for some businesses.
So – what is “Cloud”?
Cloud is the general term given to any service provided to an end user where the service is hosted by a third party and paid for based on usage. Email for example is usually paid per mailbox (user) while an application would be charged by the concurrent user.
Cloud solutions have been around in one form or another for nearly 20 years (did somebody say Hotmail or Yahoo mail?), so the concept is not a new one.
What is new is the way it can be delivered to a user or a business.
There are different types of Clouds:
Private clouds: Direct connection between you and the hosted solution.
Public clouds: Connection over the public internet such as hotmail.com.
Hybrid clouds: A mixture of public and private including on and off premise.
Enterprise clouds: Private cloud for enterprise companies in the big end of town joining multiple third party solutions as one large solution.
How does the Small to Medium Business take advantage of these Clouds?
That’s the million dollar question and is a difficult one to answer in a paragraph or two! It comes down to YOUR business requirements, how you do business now and in the future, how you see your employee’s work style and the flexibility you want to provide to them. The same flexibility can be achieved in the on-premises model however a major difference is the cost model – Operational vs Capital. Owning software vs leasing software, ongoing costs that can move with your company (up or down) or fixed assets that could be a liability. A cloud service can grow or downsize with you usually on a monthly basis.
Each has its place – our job here at HighPoint is to help you find the place that best suits your requirements. There is no “one size fits all” when it comes to IT. It’s our job to know what fits your business well and what does not.
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23-Nov-2011
Playstation 3 Winner - Congratulations Mike Yeo!
Congratulations to Mike Yeo from Awards & More, our major prize trivia winner!
Mike won our first major prize, a Sony Playstation 3!
Subscribe to our newsletter to be in the chance to win a monthly prize and enter our quarterly major prize draw.
The December 2011 prize is a remote controlled helicopter
Be sure to subscribe and enter the trivia competition for your chance to win!
16-Nov-2011
Paul's Point
Pauls' Point is a new feature in our newsletter. Our resident geek Paul will provide us with a review each month on the latest technology. This month Paul has reviewed the iPhone 4S - will you be rushing out to get the latest Apple product?iPhone 4S
This isn't the iPhone 5. No matter how badly you wanted something slim, sleek and wedge-shaped, this isn't it. It's a new spin on an old phone that will shock none, but give it half a chance, and it will still impress.
The iPhone 4S comes with a faster processor, a better camera, a smarter virtual assistant and twice the storage of its predecessor.
Iphone 4S Virtual Assistant: SIRI
Siri can do a huge number of things, from sending texts and emails to finding restaurants and getting directions from one place to another. Say you want to send a text to your wife to remind her to pick up the dogs from boarding on the way home from work. You can just say, "Tell my wife don't forget the dogs." Siri will send your wife a message saying, "Don't forget the dogs."
That context works in other situations, too, like receiving a text message from someone, asking Siri to check your calendar, and then just saying "Reply, I'll see you then." You don't need to say who to reply to, Siri will remember
So, then, is it worth the upgrade? Well, if your contract happens to be up and you want an iPhone and you haven't already jumped on the iPhone 4 then yes, this is the one you want. It does come at a $100 premium over its predecessor, but in the long run that premium will be worth it as the 4S will surely be supported by Apple for a good bit longer than the 4 (as the 3GS continues to be, while the 3G is now fading into obsolescence). But, if you're mid-contract or haven't quite yet been wooed by all that iOS has to offer, we'd recommend sitting this one out. The iPhone 4S does everything better than the iPhone 4, but it simply doesn't do anything substantially different.
Courtesy of engadget.com
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09-Nov-2011
Latest trivia winner!
Congratulations to Belinda from Doug Smith Spares for winning this months trivia!
All entries submitted by Tuesday, 15 November will go in the running to win a Playstation 3. The winner will be drawn at the HighPoint office on Wednesday, 16 November 2011.
Want to enter? Answer this question:
AT WHICH RACECOURSE WOULD YOU FIND BECKETT'S CORNER?
Click here to submit your answer!
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18-Oct-2011
Is this the end of HP PC's?
The CEO of HP
announced last month that the company is considering in the next three months
a plan to sell or spin-off their PC business. Slowing sales and little profit
have led management to explore the sale or spin-off of the Personal Systems
Group (PSG) unit, which deals in PCs, smartphones and tablets.
Being the
largest PC vendor in the world and most profitable after Apple, it will be very
interesting to see the direction HP will head in should they move away from
PC's.
06-Oct-2011
Congratulations to our VoIP vendor of choice, 3CX!
Our VoIP vendor of choice was selected as a 2011 CRN Emerging Technology Vendor. This award is given annually to vendors who use the channel and support their resellers to increase their sales. 3CX Phone System has drawn praise for being an innovative, easy to use and robust product. 3CX is a 100% channel company and continually provides you with technology that can generate the high margin solution you require.Congratulations 3CX!
28-Sep-2011
September 2011 Trivia Winner!
Congratulations to Brett from Harvey Norman for winning this months's trivia competition!
Brian and many others are in the draw to win a Playstation 3, being drawn Wednesday, 14 November. There is only one more chance to enter the competition by answering the trivia question to be released in the October 2011 newsletter.
Subscribe now!
31-Aug-2011
August 2011 Trivia Winner!
10-Sep-2010
i-Solutions
i-Solutions is a suite of products designed to keep your Servers and networks running at their optimum.
i-Mon is a real-time system monitoring application that remotely monitors your business critical components and alerts us to any potential issues via a dedicated “traffic light” console located in our office.
i-Watch ensures your systems are regularly updated with any required operating system patches and areas of concern are reported back to you via monthly email reports.
Look out for the next newsletter where we’ll reveal the remaining i-Solutions products in the range.
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