January 27, 2016
The cloud is a rather abstract term that is generically thrown around a lot these days in IT circles. Behind the conceptual conjecture of the cloud is a complex collective infrastructure of servers, hypervisors and web applications and other components. The definition of this inclusive concept of the cloud comes from the National Institute […]
April 18, 2012
I was in a meeting the other day with my staff. We were reviewing our current backup strategies and soon discovered several shortcomings in our current backup operations. In summary, our data has grown faster than we anticipated years ago when we created our backup blueprint for the datacenter. In fact, we quickly recognized that […]
December 4, 2011
Bring You Own Device It is known as BYOD (Bring Your Own Technology), BYOT (Bring Your Own Devices) or the Consumerization of IT. Whatever you call it, it is a new paradigm that is making its way across enterprise networks throughout the county as employees are bringing their own computer devices to work. It seems […]
October 15, 2011
As we enter into the fifth year of the Great Recession, Americans are learning the same lesson their grandparents did in 1937, the seventh year of the Great Depression; that government has no magic solution to the current economic malaise. More than that though, Americans are beginning to comprehend that the usual stuff isn’t working, […]
October 15, 2011
You may have never heard of the term fractional work, but you will. It is the new paradigm that is spreading across the globe and serves as a contributing factor for the lack of full-time jobs in this country. Here’s the dirty little secret, the full-time job model as we know it is an outdated […]
June 4, 2011
As a Manager/Network Engineer, I have been talking about the Cloud for almost a decade, but we are now seeing it come to fruition very quickly. For instance, Microsoft offers their Windows Live services for free. Windows Live offers you 5 GB of free email, 25 GB of free personal storage and free access to […]
May 29, 2011
The other day I received a text from a client who needed me to send them a file ASAP. I was at a friend’s house and didn’t have my laptop with me, but thanks to the cloud, where I store all of my important files, pictures, MP3s, etc., I was able to access my files […]
August 23, 2016
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