Month: April 2018
Robin Robins: The Shiny-New-Penny Syndrome
One of the 1,100+ Boot Camp attendees wrote a rather extensive note, providing feedback that the sessions were worthless and nothing of value could be gained or learned. She mentioned the “lack of new campaigns” as one of her main...
Ask an Expert: How can I make sure SMB default settings are aligned with best practices?
Q: We’ve run into issues where clients create their own workaround to try to get something done faster. For example, we’ll see that firewall settings changed or antivirus has been disabled. How can we manage this to ensure that our...
Tech Time Warp: The Sasser worm teaches a lesson
In early May 2004, computer users worldwide learned a hard lesson: Don’t procrastinate when it comes to installing a security patch. Users at the Taiwanese post office, the train station in Sydney, and some of Wall Street’s biggest banks found...
Cloud 5: SAP pushes deeper in cloud, AWS cloud revenue keeps going up
Welcome to The Cloud 5, our weekly feature where we scour the web searching for the five most intriguing and poignant cloud links we can find. Before we jump into this week’s links, please have a look at one of...
Complicated IoT ecosystem starts to take shape
As the number Internet of Things (IoT) projects that get launched continues to gain momentum, a new report from Ericsson, a provider of networking equipment, suggests telecommunications carriers and managed service providers will be jockeying for position in the years...
AWS decides the blockchain is worth a shot after all
When AWS CEO Andy Jassy told reporters at the re:invent conference last December that he had little interest in blockchain technologies, there was no reason to doubt him. Still, he left a small opening that suggested they might be in...
MSPs Beware: The Future of Ransomware
The idea of a shady cabal or a nefarious cyber army of one holding an entire city’s data hostage while they negotiate for ransom sounds like a plot lifted straight from a 1990s B movie. But yesterday’s fantasy is today’s...
Java cloud migration starting to accelerate
Managed service providers can gain insight into the rate at which production applications are moving into the cloud from a survey of 1,800 developers published today by The Eclipse Foundation. The survey finds that half the respondents are running less...
Ask an MSP Expert: How can I help customers understand the difference between backup and archiving?
Q: I feel like most of my customers don’t know when they need archiving or and when they need backups. They just believe that everything needs to be backed up. How can I explain the differences to my customers to...
Tech Time Warp: John McCarthy introduces LISP
Ask Alexa who coined the term “artificial intelligence,” and she’ll tell you John McCarthy. As a computer pioneer, John McCarthy provided the world with much more than a name for AI. He also developed the LISP programming language, one of...