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MC WARE CELEBRATES ITS 10TH YEAR OF BUSINESS
Due to the ever changing dynamics of business, IT has to continuously adapt to an evolving business environment, doing this is what has kept MC Ware on top of the ladder for 10 years. Started in 1998 by Jonathan Wheatley managing director, the company was initially formed to provide ‘Mobile Computing’ solutions for the businessman. New to the market at that time was the PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) a hand held computer which looked like something out of Star Trek.
From this start the company evolved through the ages of dial up modems and PCMCIA cards, constantly increasing the range of services provided by adding networking and network installations which almost always included a mobile connection facility. Today MC Ware provides IT Support not only to local companies of the North East but also provides computer and communication networks on ships across the world. Having completed jobs in Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Norway, Sweden and even Barbados, these networks and PC’s can all be controlled remotely from the offices on Stokesley High Street.
When asked ‘What is the biggest change and improvement you have seen over the last 10 years?’ Without hesitation Jonathan replied “That is quite definitely broadband, not only do we now have remote access to every site we support but the biggest and best library in the world is now on your desktop ensuring information which once took days to source is now available almost instantly.”
For the future MC Ware looks at the next 10 years with excitement, ‘It is not possible to predict the next step in IT but ensuring we are ready to take that step is what has made us successful. 10 years in this business gives you a trusted and proven track record which we will build on over the next 10 years to make us and our customers more prosperous’. said Jonathan.
MC WARE BUNGEE JUMP FOR CHARITY
CHRIS JOHNSON PASSES HIS VM WARE EXAMS
We are delighted to announce that Chris Johnson is now a "Vmware Certified Professional " having attended the official VMWare 5 day course and passed the ESX Server exams. "We are really please for him, he is already a whizz on Vmware but this qualification formalizes the fact" said Jonathan Wheatley our MD. Please visit our VM Ware page for more details on virtual computing.
JONATHAN WHEATLEY INVITED TO APPEAR ON BBC NEWS
MC WARE SPONSOR GARETH ELLIS IN THE POLAR CHALLENGE
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JONATHAN WHEATLEY INVITED TO APPEAR ON SKY NEWS TO GIVE AN OPINION ON INTERNET CRIME - NOVEMBER 2007
SPAM LEVELS HIT RECORD HIGHS AGAIN! AUGUST'S SPAM AND VIRUS STATISTICS FROM MC WARE - SEPTEMBER 2007
Stokesley, North Yorkshire, UK (5th September 2007) - MC Ware announced today that during August it recorded the highest ever level of spam stopped in one month and also the highest level of spam in one day. In the last few days huge waves of "You Tube" spam appears to be replacing the pdf and other document spam that has plagued users over the last few weeks.
During August, MC Ware and Softscan stopped 91.90% of email, after correctly identifying it as spam. Spam levels peaked during the month when 96.89%, was stopped as spam. This record was only broken a couple of months ago in June when levels of 96.55% were recorded. MC Ware and SoftScan announced in August that it expected to see spam rise by 40% during September and that it was already seeing a significant increase, which is reflected in these figures.
"These figures demonstrate the rising problem of spam," comments Jonathan Wheatley, MD of MC Ware. "With no evidence that the increase is likely to abate anytime soon, we believe this trend of exceptionally high spam levels is likely to continue and that September will see even higher levels of spam. The latest variant of Storm Worm emails, which now poses as a You Tube video featuring the email recipient, is just the latest social engineering tactic in a long line of storyboard changes we expect to see over the next few weeks."
Virus levels by contrast are down to record lows, accounting for just 0.28% of emails stopped by SoftScan during August.
The top five virus families in August 07 were:
1 - phishing: 54.37%
2 - ecard: 17.49%
3 - faketube: 10.96%
4 - webaccount: 6.14%
5 - downloader: 4.38%
MC WARE ATTEND VM WORLD IN SAN FRANCISCO
MCWare would like to announce that it will be attending VM World in San Francisco this year.
"Virtual computing is fast becoming one of our major offerings and we hope to develop further partnerships with global suppliers" Says Jonathan Wheatley, Managing Director.
MC WARE MOVE INTO NEW OFFICES
Due to further growth we have had to move to larger offices. Our address is now 25a High Street, Stokesley, TS9 5AD.
All of our other contact details remain the same.
NEW SECURITY CERTIFICATION FOR MC WARE
MC Ware are pleased to announce that Jonathan Wheatley of MC Ware has achieved the Certified Security Testing Associate (CSTA) qualification with distinction from 7Safe.
We believe that this strengthens our credentials as leading IT security consultants.
ONLINE OPEN CRM ADDED TO THE MC WARE PORTFOLIO
We are delighted to announce that we have selected OpenCRM as our chosen on-line CRM offering. Having tested 5 other products MC Ware have decided that this products offers the low entry price and superb support needed to be added to their product range. "We particularly like the integration with Sage Accounts and Outlook 2007. We have found the software easy to use and the support and installation services excellent"
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