This is the message that Weltman Bernfield (WB) LLC, a certified public accounting and consulting firm, has for its clients. WB takes pride in being there for its clients as a trusted ally that will provide vision and guidance for all accounting needs, not just taxes. The expertise of their CPAs provides a solid resource for anyone faced with a financial question or life transition. If one of WB's professionals can't answer your question, they will refer you to someone who can. They collaborate with trusted attorneys, investment advisors, insurance agents and other professionals to ensure that their clients have access to current information. The goal is to be one-stop resource for all things related to financial well-being.

"We care about our clients," says Glenn Mikell, Managing Member, Weltman Bernfield LLC. "We strive to exceed their expectations with personalized service to help them achieve their goals. They can come to us with their financial questions and we will help them find the answers."

Fans of the Jean-Luc Picard version of Star Trek will remember the Captain raising his finger and commanding the starship Enterprise to "Engage."

Back then, if I were to tell you that one day you'd be able conduct your everyday meetings via HD video from anywhere on a wireless mobile device by just moving a single finger - you probably would have thought I spent too much time watching the popular science fiction series.

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As producers of enterprise telephony software (apps), voice gateways, and endpoints, Mitel is tasked with making our lives a little simpler when it comes to our business communications. Mitel does this by providing great apps such as Teleworking on the Mitel Border Gateway (MBG), Presence Management via Mitel Unified Communicator® Advanced (UCA), and HTML apps right on the display of Mitel 5300 Series IP Phones. These applications are made possible by Voice over IP (VoIP) technology, a technology that is not possible in a TDM-based world.

With the Mitel HTML Desktop Toolkit, anyone can turn a Mitel 5300 Series IP Phone into a customized business solution

The problem with IP-based apps and features is that some companies may not be ready or even able to upgrade their entire infrastructure to permit these apps. They are somewhat locked into their legacy cabling infrastructure.

For some customers, re-cabling their entire organization would be required in order to permit VoIP. In other cases, a complete replacement of data switches would be required to permit Quality of Service (QoS/802.3pq) or Power over Ethernet (PoE/802.3af or 802.3at). The costs of re-cabling an organization or replacing data switches is at times too high, or in other cases physically not possible (i.e., older buildings).

Enter the new StreamLine world - Mitel StreamLine to be exact.

SUNNYVALE, CA - Fortinet® ( NASDAQ : FTNT ) - a world leader in high-performance network security - today revealed FortiGuard Labs' 2013 threat predictions, highlighting six threats to watch out for next year.  

Top 6 Security Predictions for 2013

1. APTs Target Individuals through Mobile Platforms
2. Two Factor Authentication Replaces Single Password Sign on Security Model
3. Exploits to Target Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Communications
4. Exploits Circumvent the Sandbox
5. Cross Platform Botnets
6. Mobile Malware Growth Closes in on Laptop and Desktop PCs

Threat Report: December 12-26, 2012 

Unitrends recently introduced the Unitrends Recovery-943. This appliance  is the next generation flagship of the Unitrends Recovery-series of backup appliances. We began this series of blog posts by discussing why backup appliances are experiencing such rapid demand and adoption, and will continue the discussion in the next few posts by addressing the challenges facing enterprise-class data protection backup appliance vendors.   We will then discuss the Recovery-943 architecture and the specific responses that the designers of the Recovery-943 had to each of the challenges discussed in this post.

One reason that you buy an appliance is the convenience - the integration of functionality so that you don't have to worry about the underlying implementation. Take a common appliance in your kitchen - the toaster. You don't want to worry about the alloy composition of the nichrome heating element or the spring tension in the tray that holds your bread; you just want toast.

In a backup appliance, integration can refer to either vertical integration or horizontal integration. Vertical integration is a defining characteristic of a backup appliance: the storage, server, operating system, data protection software, and support are vertically integrated in a functional "stack" and delivered by a vendor. As a buyer, what you want to be concerned with are companies that take commodity backup software and put it on a generic hardware platforms and call that a backup appliance. Not only is there a lack of real integration and "balance" - but even more importantly you don't get a primary advantage of what some call the "OTTC" effect - One Throat To Choke - which means that a single vendor is responsible for everything and there can be no "finger pointing" when it comes to support.

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