Efficiency through Technology and Quality by HPD Global SaaS Solutions

These days it is most important to take the business battle to strategic design. Some concerns with the Economy as it is are to find cheaper ways to increase efficiency without hurting quality. Technology is one strong avenue to do that through. Some careful attention should be given by management into various areas surrounding this. Consider the following:

What areas of your work flow can be automated?
How utilized is your present technology?
Have you considered efficiency through leverage of technology?
Could you double your output with quality by doing things different?

These questions help us better determine as management what areas we should push to resolution on a more level approach. I am going to make a bold statement about our present economic situation. I believe that the businesses the utilize creativity, strategic design, and technology toward doing things smarter (different) will be the companies that take us further into the new millenium and will be tomorrow’s successful companies. You have heard that the best way to win is thinking outside the box. Technology when implemented successfully with intelligent engineers will not only yield success but a peace of mind. You will want to ensure that you deal with solid Technology Experts when making these changes. To an extent it will involve vision and entrepreneurship, but it can be done. So this will be an area that all technology management will face if they have not faced it so far. It is the dynamics of where Global Business is going, you just have to think outside the box and be the first to the fight. HPD Global has multiple SaaS solutions you should contact us to save money.

Using Ubuntu Server as a Desktop and Cost Savings

Cost Savings and Technology advantages of Ubuntu Server

Most of you are familiar with GPL/GNU Open Source Software. I wanted to recommend a highly stable and cheap to free open source server. Ubuntu meaning ethic or humanist philosophy focusing on people’s allegiances and relations with each other. The meaning behind the them is something quite intrinsic to the creation of the technology. In a humanity sense open source software allows individuals, groups, or entire communities to contribute in some way to the development of the software. The overall output of the product is of higher quality, testing, and also more in line with what the user wants.

Since Ubuntu open source you have the option to change it. So yes this is Linux. I wanted to state however that Ubuntu is the most supported version of Linux out there, and that you can do anything with it as you would a Windows Server. You have have the option to turn it into a desktop with a simple command line entry such as this:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

The wonderful thing about open source is you feel or get empowered through the transparency of what you observe. Also how you can customize and change things to better suit the needs of your IT department or Organization. So now on to the advantages. Ubuntu is a light weight server out of the box, or you can make it more robust. It can easily be converted into any type of back end server ie: File, Web, Email, Media, Authentication, Proxy, Code Repository, Load Balancing. Just about anything you want it can be turned into that. So let me point you to the documentation for reference so you will be able to observe and learn or consider the cost savings you can benefit from.

Ubuntu Home Page

At HPD Global – VIT Cloud Services we run Ubuntu and several other open source solutions on top of traditional Microsoft Windows Server. We feel this brings greater value to our customers as they have the option to tailor the technologies we offer to better suit their needs. Contact us today for more IT Profitability.

Registry hack to allow easy command line anywhere access

Command Prompt anywhere Registry Hack

1. Click start
2. Click run
3. type in notepad
4. press enter
5. paste the following code:
   Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
   [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\Command Prompt Here]
   [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\Command Prompt Here\command]
   @=”;cmd.exe /k \”;cd %1\”;”;
    

Into the notepad

1. Then from there click save as. Make sure you selected all files instead of .txt
2. Name the file whatever you want but add the extension .reg
3. Save it to a location you can execute the file to add the reg mod
4. From there execute the file, then press Windows Key plus the letter E
5. You then will be able to click into a drive like the C: drive and then right click a folder the option to Command Prompt Here will be available
6. Left click that option and you will see a prompt come up in that location.

Great Tool for Windows Server Active Directory Exploration

SaaS: Software as a Service

Thanks to the internet, high speed connectivity, and rapid development of applications over the internet, we have the birth of Virtual IT – Cloud Services.  Imagine if you will the ability to have your IT Department totally running from the cloud for a flat rate?  Its happening.  A lot of services can be provided through SaaS (Software as a Service) via the Internet, these being:

1. Backups
2. Security Baseline
3. PC Optimization
4. Malware removal
5. Remote Desktop Troubleshooting
6. Analysis
7. Web Development
8. Internet Marketing SEO/SEM
9. Programming
10. Patching

Most of your Help Desk, IT Administration, and whole IT Department functions can be outsourced with high ROI.

Would you like to outsource your IT to a well reputable 100% usa firm?  We are making that happen for many.

Are you PCI Compliant?

More and more businesses are going virtual each day and put their business to work for them 24 hours a day.  With, e commerce in expansion in mind it becomes totally imperative to establish standards of security.  The Payment Card Industry or PCI has established pretty clear standards for companies that wish to utilize this fast growing and highly lucrative line of business.  Funded by Visa and Mastercard primarily; PCI was developed to ensure consumer confidence in purchasing goods and services over the internet.  Whether you are a small or large corporation and you have an established online business, you are expected to be PCI Compliant.  Failure to do so can cost your business profound costs in litigation, fees from Visa and Mastercard, and loss in potential business.  It simply is not worth the risk to your business to lack in due diligent security.  As a solution, HPD Global IT Consulting offers Enterprise-wide PCI Compliance SaaS solution to businesses that are small as well as large.  We implement all DSS standards and provide you with a security baseline to start you off with security due diligence.

More and more these days it is becoming totally necessary to be compliant with Industry and Government standards or face paying huge fines that many businesses do not survive financially.  The security threats are real and more and more we are hearing about this in the media.  Security crackers have caused billions in damages, we can only estimate how much is kept away from the public eye and government by private organization who pay hush money to keep customer satisfaction up.  PCI compliance really covers a lot of areas in which its possible for Card holder information to be stolen.

The core of the PCI DSS is a group of principles and accompanying requirements, around which the specific elements of the DSS are organized:

Build and Maintain a Secure Network

Requirement 1: Install and maintain a firewall configuration to protect cardholder data
Requirement 2: Do not use vendor-supplied defaults for system passwords and other security parameters

Protect Cardholder Data

Requirement 3: Protect stored cardholder data
Requirement 4: Encrypt transmission of cardholder data across open, public networks

Maintain a Vulnerability Management Program

Requirement 5: Use and regularly update anti-virus software
Requirement 6: Develop and maintain secure systems and applications

Implement Strong Access Control Measures

Requirement 7: Restrict access to cardholder data by business need-to-know
Requirement 8: Assign a unique ID to each person with computer access
Requirement 9: Restrict physical access to cardholder data

Regularly Monitor and Test Networks

Requirement 10: Track and monitor all access to network resources and cardholder data
Requirement 11: Regularly test security systems and processes

Maintain an Information Security Policy

Requirement 12: Maintain a policy that addresses information security

Of course each and every requirement is probed further during an audit to ensure necessary security due diligence is in place.  It truly does take a lot of hard work to build a security baseline and managerial understanding, let us help lessen the headache with our secure Cloud Services.  Contact us today.

Fortune 500 IT Practices: Small to Medium Businesses

The Questions:

Don’t you wish you could have a budget to allow your IT departments to flourish without the additional cost of a full time staff, additional contractors, or H1B’s to further explode your budget into the point of no return?

Don’t you want to know if your IT infrastructure us functioning as successfully as that of a Fortune 500 company?

If you answered yes to either of these questions, then look no further; High Performance Delivered Global IT Consulting (100% US Based with US employees) is here to help you with all your technical needs.

With over 30 years of experience in Information Technology (IT) we have the solutions that will help you cut cost and increase your performance for your day to day Information Technology operations.

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Virtual IT (VIT) Cloud Services

Hello World most see as a build verification test after the successful coding completion of a program.  The context in which I wish to use it today is in relation to Virtual IT (VIT), Cloud Services, SaaS, SOA.  HPD Global IT Consulting has always believed in being 100% US Owned and Operated while providing solid, sustainable and effective Virtual IT.  So let me show you how we do that for you, we live eat and breath in the Internet which is all you have to worry about, for example we come to you over the Cloud.  Our cutting edge solutions will guarantee removing headache out of IT, we do this by automating intuitive and smart actions in response to routine day to day IT Business practices in the ideal IT department.  See we have modeled and fine tuned best practices so we understand IT so well we can provide and replicate IT success and ROI virtually over the internet as we have done many times before.  So what this means is huge cost savings to you the Business Owner and sustained affordable IT.  Our goal is really to not sell you anything additional like many other IT consultants, our goal is like yours, affordable cheap IT.  Would you like to have the feel of a performance stable Fortune 100 IT Department?  Would you like to know that your IT works properly and is accessible when you need access?  Are you tired of paying high amounts of money when a system breaks and a technician has to come out on site to repair it?  Partner with us and let us compliment your existing IT Department.  Although we operate 100% virtually, we are very real and can prove to you solid ROI.  Sign up or give us a call so we can answer all your questions and give you more information about how we can make your IT make more sense.

Forget writing down your passwords, Encrypt them with Keepass

Forget writing down your passwords on a piece of paper under your wallet.  You can just store them in a free as in Open Source software program vault called Keepass.  This is definitely a solution I will continue to consult on, but wanted to share how cool it was.  You can neatly store your passwords in a categorical manner so it is easy to retrieve.  You double click your password and it copies it to clipboard without showing the password to should browsers.

So take a look if you need some immediate security and organization of your passwords.   We offer encrypted cloud password storage.  We can help you set it up, contact us.