As Hurricane Sandy approaches the East Coast and a good portion of us (including myself) have a ton of work to do before month end, I wanted to share some Tips on how to protect your work during a hurricane. The biggest concern is loss of power. Whether working from
home or in the office the main cause of lost data and frustration will be loss of power, power surges, etc. here are some suggestions to avoid having to do the same work twice.
Topics: Disaster Recovery, Managed Services, IT Project Management
The rise of cloud computing is shifting the center of gravity. It is changing the nature of competition within the computer industry. Technological developments have up until this moment pushed computing power away from central hubs: first from mainframes to minicomputers, and then to PCs and laptops. Now a combination of cheaper and more powerful processors, and ever faster and more ever present networks, is pushing power back to the center in some respects, and even further away in others. The cloud's data centers are, in effect, outsourced public mainframes that users do not have to keep up, or update.[1]
Topics: Cloud Computing
by: Ben Howard - IT Services Manager, CISSP
Google has recently released SSL for searches. It is on by default with Chrome, and you can access it at https://www.google.com. While this is not monumental security, earth shattering news, given the option for web traffic to use SSL, you should always, always use SSL. SSL encrypts the communication between your PC and the server to which you send a request adding another layer of data security. In this case, it means that your searches and search results will be encrypted. No one will be able to see what you searched for or what results you received without direct access to your PC. Sounds good, but this doesn’t mean no one can have any clue about your searches. While your searches and results are encrypted, if you click on a link, you will be redirected to another website. That website may or may not support SSL. So, while your ISP may not know that you searched for “free music download”, they will see that you accessed websites that allow you to illegally download music.
Topics: Data Security, Tech Fixes
Nick Vitucci, a Senior IT Associate with NSK Inc, was at a client’s office routinely monitoring the system and came across some small, seemingly unrelated issues across a number of servers and applications. What first caught Vitucci’s attention was that printing was taking much longer than normal. While trying to troubleshoot that issue, he noticed that the interface to manage the printers was unresponsive.
Topics: Managed Services
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