Everyone is running out of disk space, our users keep filling up their home directory’s, and group shares. With compliance and archive we now have to keep application and user data around longer than ever.
Unfortunately with the ever increasing amount of data our “Backup Window” stays the same and doesn’t increase. I know many customers that are not able to complete a Full Backup successfully anymore because there just isn’t enough time. This also greatly affects restoring data. If a user requests a restore of a simple Word Document from 3 weeks ago this process can actually take days to get a tape from offsite, spin the tape up, re-catalog, select the file and restore. Read More
I like to show how to expand EqualLogic Volumes in Windows Server 2008 as part of my regular demo with customers, partners and at events.
Sometimes I am asked if you can shrink EqualLogic Volumes in Windows Server 2008 and the answer is yes you can.
NOTE: You can also do this with Windows Server 2000 and Windows Server 2003, you just need a third party disk utility to shrink these EqualLogic Volumes. With Windows Server 2008, the functionality is built in. Read More
Typically, if property for business has a useful life of more than one year, the cost must be spread across several tax years as depreciation with a portion of the cost deducted each year.
But there is a way to immediately receive these income tax benefits in one tax year. The provisions of Internal Revenue Code Section 179 allow a sole proprietor, partnership or corporation to fully expense tangible property in the year it is purchased.
And tax-law changes over the past few years have made this option much more appealing by dramatically increasing the amount that can be written off immediately. Changes first made in 2003 and then extended in 2006, mean that businesses can write off more of their capital expenditures through 2009.
Enhanced section 179 expensing now is at the base level of $100,000 with that level indexed for inflation for the last several years. This is four times more than the previous-law limit of $25,000. In addition, the investment limitation also has been increased to more than $400,000 and it, too, is indexed for inflation.
These changes mean that in 2006, a business can expense $108,000 in capital expenditures up to an overall investment limit of $430,000. Read More
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