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We are attempting to do our part for the plant and our environment. Some of you may have noticed that we are now emailing our invoices. If your company has an accounting email address that invoices should go directly to please send us an email or give us a call with that information.
We have also just taken on a new, very affordable Fax Server from Multi-Tech and have implemented it in our office to save on printing our service orders then hand faxing them to the field. This saves not only paper but time, while allowing us to send outbound faxes directly from our individual desktops. It's also a secure way to receive incoming faxes directly to an individual DID and again saving on printing as these pdf files can be saved on the computer.
Check out the "Working Green Calculator" to see how Telecommuting can help your employees and the Environment.
If your company has "Green" initiatives for 2009 give us a call to see how we can help- 203-649-6405.
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Toshiba's Commitment to the Environment
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It's not easy being Green, but Toshiba is committed to playing a
leading role in helping establish a sustainable society. Over the years,
Toshiba has taken a less is more approach by minimizing waste, reducing energy
consumption and using recycled materials. Its all part of an effort to create
innovative, efficient products that remain environmentally responsible
throughout their life-cycles.
Environmentally Conscious Products
Environmentally Conscious Products (ECPs) is an eco-friendly program
that aims to double the environmental performance of all Toshiba
products by 2010. Toshiba's Telecommunications Systems Division is
dedicated to making incremental improvements in our manufacturing
process and to designing ECPs with minimal environmental impact.
Toshiba's
Telecommunications Systems Division is dedicated to making incremental
improvements in our manufacturing process and to designing ECPs with
minimal environmental impact.
All of Toshiba's Strata® CIX™ IP products are fully RoHS-compatible
and are developed with an eye to respon use of environmental resources
throughout the product life cycle.
In addition, all new Toshiba Strata CIX IP communication systems
are compatible with environmental guidelines such as those defined in
the Joint Industry Guide issued by the Electronics Industry Alliance
(EIA).
Toshiba believes that technology demands
responsibility. That's why the company has instituted a number of
sweeping initiatives designed to minimize the impact of its electronic
products.
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Fighting Malware
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In the beginning was the firewall, and it was pretty good. A big box
of rules that sat between your network and the evils of the Internet,
the firewall examined ports and protocols to decide which packets got
in and which were barred at the door. Then things got, as things often
do, complicated. New threats came sneaking in on trusted protocols,
ports and protocols became tangled, and looking inside packets became
just as important as noting their source, destination, and type.
Protecting
a network now meant deploying multiple firewall types (network,
endpoint, application), anti-virus protection, content filters,
intrusion detection systems, and more. Instead of a big box of rules,
you needed a relay rack stuffed top to bottom with appliances -- each
with its own administrative interface, and each representing a possible
point of failure in the network. There had to be a better way,
especially for smaller companies that couldn't afford a massive staff
to feed and care for the relay racks full of appliances -- and thus,
the unified threat manager (UTM) was born.
InfoWorld recently published results of it's new firewall and UTM test protocols. "When we began this
process well over a year ago, we asked for input from virtually every
firewall and UTM vendor we knew, and we invited every UTM vendor we
could find to send us an appliance to test. In the end, four vendors
answered the call. Astaro, SonicWall, WatchGuard, and ZyXel submitted
units for this first set of tests."
UTMs unmasked
Among the four devices we tested,
only one -- the SonicWall NSA E7500 -- provided a significant level of
protection against malware, blocking 96 percent of the attacks we threw
at it. The Astaro Security Gateway 425 and WatchGuard Firebox Peak
X5500 fell far short, blocking a mere 26 percent and 33 percent of the
attacks, respectively. The ZyXel ZyWall USG1000 took the middle ground,
blocking a more respectable 69 percent of the attacks. (source InfoWorld)
All of the SonicWALL UTM products that we sell provide this excellent level of protection.
So who won?
"Finally, if you need nothing short of the most serious combination of
uncompromising security and maximum throughput, the SonicWall NSA is
your box. The clear winner of our test, the SonicWall ran only a step
behind the WatchGuard in throughput and far surpassed all three
competitors in attack protection. Add its wizard-based setup routine
that steps administrators through an otherwise complex process, and you
have a product that clearly benefits from being the sixth generation of
its family." (source InfoWorld)
Speak to a SonicWALL Certified Professional today at 203-649-6405 to learn how your companies data assets can best be protected.
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| Holiday Closure Schedule |
Pilothouse will be closing at 3:00pm on Thursday July 2nd and will be closed Friday July 3rd in observance of Independence Day to give our hardworking employees a nice long weekend to spend with family and friends.
Calls us early to check your holiday schedule for your Automated Attendant if you are closing for the holiday also.
As always if you have an emergency during a time we are closed please leave a message in our Emergency Mailbox and the On-call technician will call you back.
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DID YOU KNOW?
All the products and services we can offer you as your full-service communications technology partner... VOICE
Telephones and Voicemail, Call Center, Call Recording, Messaging On-Hold, Loud Speaker Paging, Conference Phones, Wireless
DATA/IT
IT outsourcing support, Servers, PC's, Laptops, Firewall/Routers for Internet and remote access to your network, Data Backup Solutions, Email SPAM filtering, Proactive Server Maintenance, Wireless
VIDEO
IP and Analog security camera solutions
TELEPHONE LINES
Copper lines, PRI, T1, MPLS Networks and Data circuits
CABLING
Voice and Data wiring for new construction, moves or additions -
Something to keep in mind- if you are having an electrician do cabling for you because they are cheap-there is usually a reason! We find more and more that when we go to do our piece, that cables are not tagged, labeled or terminated- this causes additional cost to you AND usually delays in the project.
Before you call anyone else about ANYTHING COMMUNICATIONS- call us first.
Don't forget to visit our BLOGWe'd love you all to become "fans" of our Pilothouse Facebook and keep in contact with us- give us your feedback, ideas on how we may improve our service to you, other products and services you'd like us to provide to you or to just say "hi"
Sincerely,
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Sue Carlson
Pilothouse Communications, LLC
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