By Naomi Dolin-Aubertin
The internet crashes and no one can do any work at all. It's easy to forget that things weren't always this way. As a culture, we have become dependent on technology and our easy access to it. Let's take a look back at where we've come from.
By Naomi Dolin-Aubertin
So every once and a while, I get struck by how cool technology is today. Actually, working in this industry that probably adds up to once or twice a day. Today's cool thing directly influences our hosted VoIP customers and so I thought I'd bring it to the blog.
By Naomi Dolin-Aubertin
This week something a little different. Each week, I spend some time on the internet looking for articles about internet technology, tech advances and cloud computing to post on our Facebook and social media. Recently, I ran across this wonderful video about Benoît B. Mandelbrot, the scientist who discovered fractals.
By Naomi Dolin-Aubertin
Hey folks, we're back this week with a new entry in the techno-babble dictionary. This week we'll be looking at a bunch of terms for your network.
LAN or Local Area Network is a network established in a geographically small location, such as a home or office.
By Naomi Dolin-Aubertin
Today we're taking a break from the techno-babble to refresh some important security points to remember during the holiday season.
By now, most everyone has heard of the data breach at Target that compromised up to 40 billion credit cards.
By Naomi Dolin-Aubertin
This week's words have to do with those pesky up down and up again acronyms pertaining to IT services. As if acronyms weren't confusing enough! It's like that annoying phase teenagers go through where they write everything like ThIs. At least we aren't dotting our i's with flowers or hearts.
By Naomi Dolin-Aubertin
Or rather, are you being server-ed? Servers. They're big; they're noisy; they're expensive. And we all rely on them on a daily basis at home and in the workplace. But what are these servers we depend on for so many things?
They are those tall towers of boxes that process your data.
By Naomi Dolin-Aubertin
You come into work one day, sit down at your computer and go to a website you visit every single day, when wham! there's a giant FBI symbol on your screen telling you you've done something illegal and they are holding your computer hostage until you pay a fine.
By Naomi Dolin-Aubertin
Do you sometimes feel like IT these days throws a bunch of catch phrases and acronyms at you? Do you feel entirely overwhelmed in a changing tech world where concepts like "the cloud" are bandied about with little explanation for how they work? Yep, I'm right there with you.
By Naomi Dolin-Aubertin
I know I posted recently in Top 5 Secrets for Effective Cloud Computing that the cloud is not actually a cloud. In many ways however, cloud computing is very much like the meteorological phenomenon we witness in our skies. Wikipedia defines a cloud as:
In meteorology, a cloud is a visible mass of liquid droplets or frozen crystals made of water or various chemicals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of a planetary body.