@SmallBizCIO:
A blog aimed at the SMB, written by a long time IT enthusiast turned IT professional.
"Jack of all trades, master of none,
Certainly better than a master of one"
These are my personal opinions.
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High Availability in the SMB
When I use the words High Availability (HA) when talking to my clients, it usually results in funny looks and them telling me that their environment is not a 24 hour shop. Asking further, HA is often equated with large expenses in purchase as well as maintenance.
On a separate note and just to be clear: Having backups available is NOT availability (high, low or anything in between). Backups are for catastrophic loss of data and are not meant to provide ongoing service when failure occurs.
Let’s get a few terms out of the way. At the core, there are 3 parts to keeping a service alive throughout a failure: redundancy, fail-over and high availability.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
– Charles DarwinSource: tumblrpigeon
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Testing some new themes…
If you see some changes on the blog, now you know why… :D
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Killing Progress with Financial ROI's (and Spreadsheets) →
Fantastic article written by Rick Huijbregts from Cisco Canada.
How many of us still don’t believe that our children and their children will expect connectivity, wireless, and access to a personalized environment when the set foot in a home or building. Home many of us still don’t think that mobility, “cloud computing”, and virtualized compute power will change the landscape of the built environment and everything that we do in it, as we know it.
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What is Connected Real Estate and why should you care?
Now that slowly, but surely, the term Connected Real Estate is getting more traction, I often get the question about what CRE is. While there are many definitions from different sides of the spectrum, they all have one thing in common:
First and foremost, Connected Real Estate defines that a complete real estate project is electronically connected to the outside world, which is most commonly done through a connection to the Internet.
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Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled.
– Howard StevensonSource: inc.com
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Marketing Research Services: A Short Neurological Test →
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Please do not use any cursor help.
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…Source: civicom
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The Connected City - Thierry Martens talks about PlanIT Valley →
An interview with Thierry Martens from Living PlanIT. This company is taking CRE to the next level, building a complete connected city in Portugal (PlanIT Valey).
Starting with a datacenter as the core, they use millions of sensors throughout the buildings as well as the city.
I find this extremely exciting, but will this become the norm? If so, how long will it take to create the awareness that is needed to make this a success? -
The demise of MegaUpload - This is why TRUST is important
Today, a great article was posted on Gartner. Jay Heiser, author of the article, speculates that there will be several businesses that will have lost their backups due to the sudden death of MegaUpload.com.
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This will usually affect the SMB. For the simple reason, that in general the SMB has a tendency to be less careful with their data - part because of a lack of understanding, part because of the good old cost/benefit analysis.
Actually, the demise of MegaUpload and the possibility that several companies have been using it for backups is concerning. Many content providers are storing corporate data, knowingly or not, through contracts with smaller companies. Think about the number of companies that use the Amazon EC2 cloud to extend part of their offering. As in the case of MegaUpload, some of their storage providers were very large, legitimate companies. These companies are now rumored to remove all of the data - leaving the SMB in the dust.
Source: blogs.gartner.com
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5 Reasons why your next location should be Connected Real Estate
The more I think about it and the more I am talking to people about it, Connected Real Estate just makes sense. For all parties - not only the vendors, but the clients as well, especially those in the SMB segment.
As an advocate of Connected Real Estate, it dawned on me that I never wrote anything about the benefits for the end-user. So here goes.
