New Video Streaming Server Gets the Green Light For Company IT Department

With the usage and popularity of video becoming ever more common, we decided it was time to take a closer look at some of the fundamental ways our business communicated with both our staff and customers alike.

At present we were communicating with our out based satellite office staff via the phone, email and physical news letters and mailings, whilst our local office based staff were just bombarded with internal emails. We decided to try and change the structure of our communication with staff to a more personal concept and streaming pre made videos via the internet and our own internal intranet seemed like the next best option to personal meetings.

Making short information communication videos to stream to our employees is light work these days, with a built in web cam, one can create an interesting, informative corporate news type video far quicker than you can type an email on your laptop. Videos seem to have the benefit of coming across to staff on a far more personal scale, they are more like a one to one.

One area where we had to make a large decision was on the IT side of our business, we had decide weather we were going to use a third party vendor for our streaming video server service, or keep it in house as we have always done in the past with our IT applications. If were to keep our IT in house, we would need our own streaming video server to control the access and distribution of our video content, as we decided we only wanted some of our content to be published on the internet.

Google offer a very interesting streaming video server package as part of the Google Docs service, where they will host all your content on their own servers, taking the strain right off your IT department. But we were minded that we wanted to keep all our IT services in house.

On our search for further information on the right streaming video server, we came across http://streamingvideoserver.org , which had a large collection of informative videos related to our decision making process on video streaming servers to find the right server solution for our business.

How To Speed Up Windows On Your Computer

A slow computer can be annoying at the best of times. When you are trying to work to a deadline, book an important flight or do your banking it is not only aggravating but can cost you time and money. Many people find that when they start using a newer version of windows or they have had the same computer that Windows starts to run slowly.

Over time, operating systems like Windows will slowly degrade. If you do not take steps to maintain Windows and maximize their operating speeds you will be left with a slow and sluggish computer that is not very error smart.

There are several things you can do to speed up Windows on your computer, you don’t need a degree in I.T. to work it out, nor do you need to spend thousands of dollars.

Optimize Your Display – newer versions of Windows, Vista in particular can look fantastic when it comes to your desktop display. The problem is, that showing you these displays takes up a lot of memory. In the control panel there is a ‘system’ file. In here you can choose which graphics to display and which not to. The less you choose, the quicker your system should run.

Speed Up Times to Find Folders – Every time you open a folder on Windows you may notice that the computer takes a second to think before it opens up the folder. On some Windows programs like XP, Windows scans for network and printer connections every time you open a folder. As you can imagine this takes up quite a bit of resources. To disable this go to the Tools menu in My Computer.

Disable Indexing Services – Indexing is a list of programs and applications that are currently running on your computer. To keep these lists up to date takes up a bit of memory and can detract from processing speeds. To disable index lists go to the Add/Remove Programs function in My Computer and uncheck the Indexing Services check box.

Regularly Check for Spyware and Viruses – Good virus protection is a must. When you are using the internet you are constantly exposing your computer to threats which can seriously disrupt its function, if not shut it down completely. Get some good software and run checks daily.

Defragment You Computer – You can do this through the Control Panel. The process of defragmenting allows your computer to put files in a place where windows can locate them quickly and easily. This can take a bit of time so you might like to run it overnight.