SOME OF THE CAP5 CLOUD SERVICES

CAP5 - Cloud Offerings!

In our CAP5 BLOG series of "Live In the Now! Power over IT!" CAP5 Technology Solutions presents 3 of our Cloud Service Offerings to our customers and prospects -

• CAP5 OneCloud© Monitoring
• CAP5 OneCloud© Remote Support
• CAP5 OneCloud© Backups/Restore

As defined by Wikipedia, Cloud Computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and virtualized... services are provided over the Internet... This means pro-activeness, efficiency and fixed price rather than the traditional "Reactive Slow Time and Material (T&M) Services".

CAP5 OneCloud© Monitoring - CAP5 adds a secure robot on Windows-based Servers and Workstations that reports back to CAP5 Standard, Critical and Emergency system information. This allows CAP5 service personnel to understand real-time (rather than after-the fact) to proactively resolve computing problems before they occur.

CAP5 OneCloud© Remote Support - One of the tools that is installed in the above CAP5 OneCloud© Monitoring package is instant access to systems to provide proactive Standard, Critical and Emergency service. Depending on the nature of the service required, CAP5 personnel will resolve problems before they occur in a stealth, non-intrusive manner or by logging into the customers systems and taking control of the users system session.

CAP5 OneCloud© Backup/Restore - Data Protection means everything! CAP5 OneCloud© Backup/Restore provides safe and secure off site data backups to ensure that MS Window-based and Mac-based Servers and Workstations have a redundant repository of ALL your system's important data. In the event of hardware loss or damage, simply replace or fix the hardware and restore the data to its original state.

Our Motto: Power over IT!

CLICK HERE TO SEND A REQUEST TO CAP5 FOR MORE INFO ON THIS OR ANY OF OUR SERVICES!

CAP5 Technology Solutionswww.capfive.com
(713) 979-5280

HOUSTON MICROSOFT RETAIL STORE! PLUS MORE INFO AND NEWS

Have you wondered if Houston is a thriving metropolis?  Then look! Houston is getting it's very own Microsoft Retail Store.  We are the 10th of many to come.  But just to be in the Top 10 means a lot.  (See the story at WinRumors)

And in case you don't know, Houston is in the top 3 of cities in the world with the most Microsoft Desktop Licenses!

Microsoft is not going away!  Even with the release of so many competitors over the last few years, especially the recent surge of the Mac Operating System (OS), Microsoft still owns almost 90% of the OS Market Share.  (See Owl Stats). 

Windows 7 is stable and the best and most proliferated OS on the Market based on the short time since it's been released.  Oh yeah... AND... Windows 8 is already popping it's pretty little head up in all the Tech Trade Shows (See the Report in AnandTech) 

CAP5 is your leading Houston Metro-plex Mid-Market Certified Solution provider and we can service any location in the world with our outreach to all the other exclusive Certified Mid-Market Microsoft Providers (this is a exclusive certification that CAP5 is one of very few in the Houston Metro-Area)... Let CAP5 show you what the Server 2010 and Windows 7 can do to optimize your environment! Effective and Efficient aren't strong enough words!


FREE IMPLEMENTATION NEWS - 

Did you know that (if you qualify), Microsoft will pay most if not all of your service cost to migrate your environment, BUT YOU HAVE TO ACT FAST! contact us at sales@capfive.com.

Contact CAP5 right away to get your company qualified for a free infrastructure face-lift!   

CAP5--We Love What We Do And It Shows In Our  Results~!!! 

POWER OVER I.T.

CAP5 Technology Solutions (click to go to the CAP5 site)

Technology News That Lance Finds of Interest

CLICK LINKS TO GO TO FULL ARTICLE


Opera Mini for Smart Phones Just Got Better
LANCE'S COMMENT: I don't like the standard web browser that is on my Samsung phone and tablet so I use Opera.  You can find it for free on the Android Market

Video Chat on Your Droid!
LANCE'S COMMENT: I mostly use Tango but I am trying this one out

Build an App and Build a Business! The Geeks Guide to the Droid Application Galaxy
LANCE'S COMMENT: A lot of developer don't know where to start.  I have never done it myself, but if I did, I'd start here!

A Place to Learn Google Places
LANCE'S COMMENT: Really cool way to learn the basics if you are scared you might muck something up on your Android Smart Phone.

Can't Afford an EVO... Win One at Sprint! Mark the Date - June 13th, 2011!
LANCE'S COMMENTS: I'm a Samsung nut (wife is Korean so feeding the Korean economy for when I retire... someday.)  My second choice, and I've owned one, is the HTC EVO.  Win it for free!

Is Mac OS Really Secure? Read On!
LANCE'S COMMENT:  I really hope that I get through to some of you Mac users.  I don't own a Mac (but I did) and I really, really, really want to convince you to protect it.  Even Apple doesn't use the word "never" when describing being vulnerable... They certainly leave room for the possibility, and although the possibilities are far less, "you still need protection!"

Are MAC really secure? What's the Word on the Street?

Word on the street and even with us geeks is:

"Buy a Mac and you'll never get hacked!" 
(do you believe this or not... leave comment)

Well, "never" is a strong word... I never believed this and after reading an article in Time Business & Tech by Harry McCracken (sounds like a pun in the name but that's really his name), I see that even the geeks (Harry's a geek) can't believe it's happening on their Macs! (See Time Business & Tech, June 2nd, 2011)

Hacking, Phishing, Trojans, Viruses, etc... aren't just happening to Windows users... It happens to everyone! Quite honestly, I think that its happening more to Macs than the users think. The worst attacks are the ones that go undetected "under the hood". A Mac user tends to be more savvy so where they are vulnerable is the fact that they are having things happen in places in their computer that happens to be more stealth because they are typically not expecting it. One hack on your contact list and someone owns all your contacts. One Trojan Horse on your login and suddenly the hackers in your bank account.

This is all my opinion but I'm just saying... "I wouldn't go without security on any of my computers! Including my Mac!"

By all means! For any security questions or solutions, feel free to give CAP5 a call for us to come out, for free, and just take a look at what you are doing and make suggestions... It never hurts to know what you don't know! It's certainly safer to be safe than sorry!

CAP5 Technology Solutions
www.capfive.com
713-979-5280
sales@capfive.com (fastest response!)

CAP5 Does IT Services!

Just so you don't forget... this is what CAP5 does!

Managed IT Services (OneCloud(TM) Fixed Price IT) which includes:

• Monitoring
• Help Desk (Tier 1 & 2 Services)
  
• Site Visits (Tier 2 & 3 Services)
  
• Backup Services (off-site and custom on-site)

Datacenter Services which includes:

• Shared Web and Email Hosting
• Collocation
  
• Disaster Recovery (DRP)
• Managed Servers

http://www.capfive.com/ -- 713-979-5280 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 713-979-5280 end_of_the_skype_highlighting -- sales@capfive.com

CAP5 is Hiring! 1 Sales and 1 Technical Position

IS GROWING!
We are so excited!

The market slump has had no effect on CAP5 and we are seeing an incredible increase in businesses looking to control their IT spending with CAP5's incredible

OneCloud Managed Services Model

(click on link to see details)

CAP5 has 2 position openings (click on the links below to go to the Work in Texas (WiT)site):

1. Inside Marketing (WiT Job ID 3053519)
2. Technical Support Technician (WiT Job ID 3053644)

You can apply either by posting at the WorkInTexas.com site or by sending your resumes to jobs@capfive.com.

Needless to say to those of you that know CAP5 and know our motto:

CAP5 ~ We love what we do and it shows in our results!

I.T. Services - How Much is Too Little or Too Much?

Based on a recent campaign conducted by CAP5 Technology Solutions, LLC to over 8142 businesses on the subject matter:

ARE YOU SPENDING TOO MUCH OR TOO LITTLE ON I.T. SERVICES?

1653 business had some level of interest... What does that mean? At the simplest level, 20% don't know if they spend to much or to little or they wanted to compare what they are currently spending with what the market has to say. Does that mean that 80% know that they are spending exactly the right amount? No... Just that they didn't have time to investigate what the message had to say, (hopefully not because they were having IT issues).

Based on the 1600+ business, they looked the following things:

• what an average price monthly was to support a desktop
• what an average price monthly was to support a server
• were they getting all the services that the industry provides
• besides help desk services, what value-add services were included

All Managed Services should be the same... but they are aren't. Want to know what a good Managed Services offering looks like? Check out what CAP5 has to offer. We have done years of research to boil down "WHAT THE CUSTOMER WANTS!"

CLICK HERE to check out CAP5's OneCloud Managed Services Offering.

NSTA Exibit Booths For Technology Services and Products

NSTA Hosted

State of the City Technology Report

4 Mayoral Candidates to Speak on the Houston's Technology Future

Be an Exibitor or Sponsor a Table

OUR EXIBIT LAYOUT IS UNIQUE

Exibitors will be circled around the room for audience to see all and the exibitors to interact with the audience.

Download the Sponsorship Package for Details (Click)
Short Form Sponsorship Application (Click)

Find out all the details of per seating pricing -- CLICK HERE

CAP5 Technology Solutions is a proud PLATINUM sponsor of this event

CAP5 - Provides:

Managed IT Services (OneCloud(TM) Fixed Price IT) which includes:

• Monitoring
• Helpdesk
• Site Visits
• Backup Services (offsite and custom onsite)

Datacenter Services which incudes:

• Shared Web and Email Hosting
• Colocation
• Disaster Recovery (DRP)
• Managed Servers

http://www.capfive.com/ -- 713-979-5280 -- sales@capfive.com

State of the City Technology Report - NSTA - CAP5 is Platinum Sponsor

CAP5 Technology Solutions is a Platinum Sponsor of Houston's 2009 State of the City Technology Report. This year's event (2nd annual) hosts 4 of Houston's Mayoral Candidates who will talk about Houston's Technology Future.

Each candidate will present a short review of Houston’s position as a world technology leader, and share their views on how, as Mayor, they would enhance and expand the city's technology initiatives. Of particular interest to Houstonians, for instance, is the Digital Inclusion Initiative and city-wide wireless

Candidates: Councilman Peter Brown, Former City Attorney Gene Locke, Lt. Col. Roy Morales (USAF-Ret.) & City Comptroller Annise Parker (CLICK HERE TO SEE ALL CANDIDATES)

We are also pleased to announce our emcee this year will be the ever-popular, witty, and knowledgeable Michael Garfield, The High-Tech Texan™, heard weekdays online on The 950 Radio Mojo from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., and on Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Several dozen VIPs are being invited to attend this event, including members of Houston City Council, the Mayor’s Office, Houston Technology Center, the Houston Convention Bureau, NASA, the Texas Medical Center, and other technology organizations and companies across the city. You will want to be a part of this remarkable opportunity to network with some of the city’s top decision makers.

Local affiliates of the four major television networks also are invited to attend. F.T.L.O.C. Productions and the Entrepreneur Broadcasting Company (EBC) will have cameras roaming the exhibit hall conducting LIVE video streaming over the Internet. Exhibitors and prime sponsors will have the opportunity for filmed interviews in front of their display booths for corporate promotional purposes. As an added value, the nation's mayors are being invited to watch the event LIVE over the Internet on the computers at their respective City Halls across the country. That's over 1,200 cities with populations of 30,000 or more! That is some potential national audience!

CAP5 Now has a FACEBOOK FanPage!

Although we are just starting this venture, become a CAP5 Fan now and see all the new stuff coming out!

CAP5 Technology Solutions

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IT Solutions - CAP5 - OneCloud

Words from the CAP5 CEO, Lance Griffith

Today CAP5 embarks on competitively delivering services like no other IT Vendor in the Houston metro area. Under the copywriter name of "ONE CLOUD", CAP5 proudly presents everything under one umbrella to cover a customer's IT environment packaged in a fixed pricing model to help the customer stabilize their ever fluctuating IT budget.

In this first round offering, customers will receive monitoring, help desk, remote support and onsite visits all within a fixed price model. Offsite backups are also part of the One Cloud solution set!

To learn how you can control you IT Expenses, contact us at:

sales@capfive.com or
call 713-979-5280 and hit option 1 for Sales!

Power over I.T.
http://www.capfive.com/

CAP5 PRESENTS MS OUTLOOK TIPS & TRICKS

http://www.capfive.com/ / 713-979-5280

CAP5 has listed the following Tips & Tricks

Microsoft OUTLOOK

Click on any of the following links and download these presentation to gain more knowledge about how to better manage your Microsoft OUTLOOK experience:

Calendar I: Outlook Calendar Basics
Calendar II: See and use multiple calendars
Create great-looking signatures for your e-mail
Get out of Your Inbox
Manage your mailbox I: Find its size and trim it down
Manage your mailbox II: Understand your choices for storing
Manage your mailbox III: Move/Copy messages to Personal Folders
Manage your mailbox IV: Archive old messages
Up to Speed with Outlook 2007

POWER OVER I.T.
CAP5 can make you business run more efficient and effective!

IT COMPUTER AND NETWORK SOLUTIONS
DATACENTER AND HOSTING SOLUTIONS
.NET APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS

CAP5 Technology Solutions, LLC
http://www.capfive.com/
713-979-5280
mailto:sales@capfive.com

CAP5 - Newest Cloud Offerings!

In our CAP5 BLOG series of "Live In the Now! Power over IT!" CAP5 Technology Solutions presents 3 New Service Offerings to our customers and prospects -

• CAP5 OneCloud© Monitoring
• CAP5 OneCloud© Remote Support
• CAP5 OneCloud© Backups/Restore

As defined by Wikipedia, Cloud Computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and virtualized... services are provided over the Internet... This means pro-activeness, efficiency and fixed price rather than the traditional "Reactive Slow Time and Material (T&M) Services".

CAP5 OneCloud© Monitoring - CAP5 adds a secure robot on Windows-based Servers and Workstations that reports back to CAP5 Standard, Critical and Emergency system information. This allows CAP5 service personnel to understand real-time (rather than after-the fact) to proactively resolve computing problems before they occur.

CAP5 OneCloud© Remote Support - One of the tools that is installed in the above CAP5 OneCloud© Monitoring package is instant access to systems to provide proactive Standard, Critical and Emergency service. Depending on the nature of the service required, CAP5 personnel will resolve problems before they occur in a stealth, non-intrusive manner or by logging into the customers systems and taking control of the users system session.

CAP5 OneCloud© Backup/Restore - Data Protection means everything! CAP5 OneCloud© Backup/Restore provides safe and secure off site data backups to ensure that MS Window-based and Mac-based Servers and Workstations have a redundant repository of ALL your system's important data. In the event of hardware loss or damage, simply replace or fix the hardware and restore the data to its original state.

Our Motto: Power over IT!

CAP5 Technology Solutions
www.capfive.com
(713) 979-5280

CAP5 - Live in the Now! Power over IT!

CAP5 Managed Services - Stop paying Hourly Rates~!

CAP5 provides fixed price (no more hourly pricing) for IT services. Get Monitoring, Help Desk and OnSite IT services for a monthly price!

CAP5 Datacenter Services - Get Out of the Storm~!

Get you servers in to the CAP5 Datacenter. Our facility has multiple internet links, power on 2 city grids, diesel generators w/ 2 weeks of fuel and is as secure as a bomb shelter!

CAP5 Hosted Services - Need a solid cheap website~?

Do it yourself! Go play with our "create your own website" tool. If you like the functionality let us know and we will set up an account for you and let you go live.

go to http://sitebuilder.capfive.com - Don't get too carried away... this is just a playground. We have to set you up the real thing. Give us a call!

Our Motto: Power over IT!

CAP5 Technology Solutions
www.capfive.com
(713) 979-5280

Bad times... Lay Off Your IT Geeks! Should you?

Here's an executives discussion with the head of HR... "Let's reduce our staff... Everything seems to be going OK in IT but every time I go in their office, it seems that they are just hanging out waiting for something to happen." The truth is, they are! That's what they do! And they are damn good at it! or should I say they are damn good at I.T.!

You might wanna think twice about letting your IT people go... or... you could have a contigency plan by separating the responsibility of internal staff and a outside organization (sounds familiar... inside/outside controls like in accounting maybe). Consider this... who knows how to 'get in to' your accounting systems? Who knows how to 'get in to' you customer records? Who has 'get in to' your employee records? Who can 'get in to' every desktop in your organization? Your IT staff! Now exchange the words "get in to with 'destroy' or 'spy on'

Feeling a little nervous? Check out this article in Forbes (Click Here)

Ever heard, "Don't put all your eggs in one basket?" Call CAP5 Technology Solutions and

1) Reduce Cost
2) Disperse I.T. Control
3) Broaden Knowledge
4) Augment Skills
5) Feel Comfortable!

Written by:
Lance Griffith, CEO of CAP5 Technology Solutions LLC in Houston TX
CAP5 Technology Solutions---www.capfive.com--713-979-5280

PodTech Media - Web 2.0 from Cap5

PodTech Media - Web 2.0 from Cap5

07:45 | James Gaskin | May 24th, 2007 8:00am | download

Cap5 President Tony Hodgson discusses the services his company offers in the Houston area, and the surprising results his customers receive from basic Web 2.0 features on the Web sites he builds.

Wanna Blog?

CAP5's Blog is still alive and well! Go to cap5.blogspot.com

Lance Griffith, CEO
CAP5 Technology Solutions

HURRICANE IKE - CAP5 CUSTOMERS 100% UPTIME

CAP5 Technology Solutions Post 6 Customers stories explaining how they made it through Hurricane IKE with little or no service interruption.

The CAP5 Datacenter had 100% uptime with no loss to power or internet connectivity.

CLICK HERE to read the recently posted stories.

Silver Sponsor for NSTA Mayorial Luncheon

CAP5 will be the Silver Sponsor October 6th 2008 @ 10 AM at the National Space and Technology Association (NSTA) Luncheon. The distinguished Mayor Bill White will deliver Houston's State-of-the-City Technology Report. Find out more information at www.nstaworld.org.

NOTE: CAP5 is an NSTA annual sponsor and has been a proud member for over 2 years. NSTA monthly breakfasts, lunches, dinners and mixers are where the Houston Technology community gets together to learns more about of what is going on in the Houston Metro area.

Evaluating Your Website's Impact

CAP5 Technology Solutions - Tony Hodgson introduces Jerry Hobby who is launching ANYTHINGINTERNET.COM.

CLICK HERE to listen to the playback of Tony and Jerry on the Steven Kay - Life, Business and Money show on 650 AM

This is an interesting show where Tony and Jerry take callers and reviews their websites. Some of the main points that they cover with callers is:

• Have a meaningful domain name
• Make sure that you marketing message stands out
• Make sure that your first page is clean and descriptive
• Don't add too many words. Get your point across fast!

If you would like us to take a look at your site off the air, get a hold of CAP5 Technology Solutions at 713-979-5280 or sales@capfive.com. You can also post a question to this BLOG and we will answer so that many will learn with you!