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We Will NOT Load Your Network

May 26, 2012 Posted in: Boring Technical Stuff - Comments: 2

Dear Old School IT Guy: We promise,  we will NOT load your network. If that isn’t clear enough, we can say it in a few different ways: The network is not loaded. Load will not be experienced in your network. …

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Spy Games and Software? No, Not Really.

May 23, 2012 Posted in: Boring Technical Stuff - Comments: 2

When people hear us talk about ‘deploying an agent,’ they may wonder if we’ve gone all John Le Carre or Daniel Silva on them. (We haven’t.)

Sure “deploying an agent” sounds very top level espionage, very… exciting… and while we think it’s cool, there is nothing dangerous about it. Still, even though we’re only talking about deploying a software agent to track software usage for companies, many people — Old School IT folks included — get nervous when we talk about deploying an agent.

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Security on the Cloud

May 18, 2012 Posted in: Boring Technical Stuff - Comments: 3

You lock your doors at night. You close the windows when you park your car. You store your important family documents in a safe locked tight with a secure combination. Maybe you even have an alarm system. It’s relatively easy to take these tangible measures to protect your belongings, and these precautions help you sleep more easily, knowing your valuables are safe.

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Flying High: On Site vs. The Cloud

March 2, 2012 Posted in: Boring Technical Stuff - Comments: 0

Back in the day, selling comprehensive solutions required operating a basic infrastructure physically on-site. This meant that in order to prove to the customer that we actually do what we do, we needed to be there. In person. We had to install servers. We had to constantly go back (and forth and back and forth) to visit our customers in order to check on status and progress.

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