Monday is the most dangerous day for data loss
We cannot stress strongly enough how important online backup is. Data loss can have very unpleasant consequences for you as well. COMBELL collected a few interesting facts from recent articles on data loss.
Did you know that:
- Only 1 out of 6 SMEs makes adequate backups? (De Tijd)
- 34 % of all European companies don’t have an emergency plan in case of an IT failure? (De Standaard)
- One out of five SMEs lose data because of theft and viruses? (Zibb)
- Self-burned CDs and DVDs have a lifespan of 5 years? (Breekpunt)
- One of the biggest fears amongst managers is data loss? (De Tijd)
- Monday is the most dangerous day for data loss? (CRN)
- The costs related to recent data loss at the Dutch tax department amounted to more than 200 million euros for the business sector? (NOS Journaal)
- Laptops are even more sensitive to data loss than desktop PCs? (De Tijd)
- Mistakes by personnel are at the basis of 20 % of all data loss? (Computable)
- American companies lose 6.3 million dollars on average after having been confronted with loss, theft or abuse of company data? (Computable)
Do you want to avoid all these problems?
Our online backup services are available as from € 2,5 per month.
 http://www.combell.com/en/backup/
LOOK OUT for fraud
We would like to forward you the following warning related to the “Domain Registration Organisation of Asia”. This fraudulent company tries to sell you domain names very tactfully by sending you an e-mail message in which they tell you that they have a customer who wishes to register your domain name with several extensions. In the message, they ask you to contact them by e-mail or phone in order to sell you the domain names.
So don’t be tricked by the tactful marketing approach of the company. Yet, if you do wish to purchase your domain name with several extensions, then be aware that COMBELL can also register any extension in the world for you.
Windows Server 2008, available now
In its capacity of Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, COMBELL is the only Belgian hosting company that has been enrolled in the Windows Server 2008 pilot program. Hence, we have developed an entire portfolio of solutions for our resellers and customers.
You can obtain your own Windows Server 2008 as from € 172 per month + 1 month free of charge
http://www.combell.com/en/dedicated/windows-server-2008/
The Feweb Congress was a huge success
Last December 12th, the 5th FeWeb congress was held in Edegem. About 175 web developers were present and followed the different tracks.
Besides being the main sponsor, COMBELL was also a guest speaker at the event. COMBELL’s Peter Viellefont talked about the possibilities offered by Software as a Service (SaaS). In its capacity of Microsoft Gold Certified partner, COMBELL indeed offers many options to help web developers implement SaaS.
In the future, software will no longer be installed on the PC, but it will become accessible via Internet. Instead of e.g. installing a word processing pack on your PC, you will purchase a license that will allow you to process text in an online context. This will save the users disk space, installation problems, virus-related risks, etc. Due to the fact that many web developers are creating SaaS applications, COMBELL supports them by offering interesting products and services, thus helping them work out strategies and architectures.
After the conferences, the FeWeb quality labels were awarded and keynote Speaker William Visterin of Business Smart Strategies communicated his views on Web 2.0, the social Internet. Among other things, he spoke about the rule of 3, the Long Tail, green IT and Web Economics and he confirmed the rise of SaaS and the shortage of data centers in Belgium.
.NET Framework 3.5 available on all Windows packs.
Since the beginning of this year, COMBELL supports the .NET Framework 3.5 on all shared Windows hosting servers.
New features introduced in the .NET Framework 3.0 are further developed in this new framework, e.g. feature sets in Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Windows CardSpace.
.NET 3.5 also contains a number of new features in several areas, as there are (among others):
- Integration of LINQ and data awareness.
- Full tooling support in Visual Studio 2008 for WF, WCF and WPF, including the new workflow-enabled services technology.
- New classes in the .NET Framework 3.5 base class library (BCL).
If you are already using the .NET Framework 2.0 on your site, you can automatically avail yourself of the innovations of this new framework. In the event that you are using .NET 1.1 and that you wish to switch, please send an e-mail message to our support department (support@combell.com) mentioning your domain name.
http://www.combell.com/en/shared/windows/
Domain name news
CNN pays 750.000 USD for a domain name. Read more about this on http://www.combell.com/en/domains/news/detail.asp?id=97
Preregistration of numeric .nl domain names http://www.combell.com/en/domains/news/detail.asp?id=98
123.nl – Landrush for strictly numeric .NL domain names
Reserve your numeric .NL domain names now, FREE OF CHARGE.
Now that the Sunrise period for brand holders is almost over, Landrush will start on Thursday, the 28th of February at noon (12 o'clock) for the numeric .NL domain names. These numeric domain names are exclusively composed of digits (minimum 2, maximum 64) like e.g. 0800.nl, 00-32.nl, 1976.nl, 12-34.nl, etc. This is a unique opportunity to register your birth year, zip code, phone number, wedding date, etc. as a domain name!
You can preregister numeric .NL domain names free of charge on http://www.combell.com/en/domains/nl/. If your registration is successful, the standard yearly fee will be applicable (34 euros excl. VAT / year).
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