On May 10th, we are co-hosting a very special event with Oblong Industries and IBM. It’s a showcase demonstration of Oblong’s Mezzanine with IBM’s Watson Workspace. We’ve always been part of helping companies with their team collaboration and workflow needs, and this combination really struck a chord with us. In the event, we’ll show how […]
Due to a payment gateway vendor requiring TLS 1.2 on all transactions starting May 1st, we had a client who needed to get their Domino code to achieve it. This post explains how that was achieved. From a web server perspective, Domino has been able to do TLS 1.2 for awhile. User connects with a […]
Workflow’s spending more and more time with clients on Cloud strategies for AWS, Azure, and IBM Watson, so I found this Wired article discussing tornado simulations very interesting. First, being from Oklahoma originally, I’m a couch-based storm chaser and I knew very well the sad story of Tim Samaris death during the chase of an […]
Local Companies Impacted by Ransomware Ransomware is very big business. Texas, especially Dallas, is a hot target. 10 million attacks have been reported in 2016 alone. We’re aware of at least 3 local companies/entities where those attacks have succeeded. In 2016, ransomware payouts crept toward the billion-dollar mark. A whopping 70% of companies attacked reported […]
As humans, we have certain perceptions of our world and how it’s supposed to work. When you look in a mirror, you expect to see your own reflection. When you drink a glass of water, you expect that it will quench your thirst. Technology has the ability to change how we see the world, and […]
The Internet of Things (IoT) – a concept almost as loose in definition as the two terms that make it up: “Internet”, which has come to denote, in whole or in any part, the vast system of electronic communications that now connects nearly every area of human endeavor; and “Things”, which could only be more […]
Guest post from our friends at Hummingbird Networks. It’s funny how, even in computers and technology, things seem to be cyclical. The first major rollouts of computer networks within businesses and school systems, in the 60s and 70s, relied on the “client-server” model. Each user was on a “dumb” terminal that relied on a central server for virtually all information processing. […]
There’s no doubt that this is the age of apps, and many businesses are opting to create custom apps, allowing for a more secure, personalized way for customers and employees alike to access the information they need to get the job, or sale, done. A number of platforms are available for developing these apps, and we’ve worked with several of them. One of our favorites is the Meteor platform for its easy integration with other platforms, its scalability, and its general ease of use.
The World of Data, as We Know It December 7, 2015 Cloud solutions 9 Comments Every year, human beings and our machines generate more data than we ever have before. We’ve all heard the famous estimation from Eric Schmidt when he was CEO at Google in 2010: “There was 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of […]
Editor’s note: This post and infographic were created by our friends at Allied Telecom. For more and more workers, going into the “office” simply means having a laptop and a Wi-Fi connection. Telework arrangements are growing at an increasingly fast pace, with predictions that up to half of employees will be working remotely in some […]