19Jun
Author: ben
Categories: Infrastructure, Ramblings
Imagine a world in which you had diligently backed up data in your Active Directory and Exchange environment every day, carefully labeling your tapes and filing them away to an off-site storage facility in case you one day encountered a server failure. Continuing in our Imaginationland, pretend that a real scenario arose in which you had none of your domain controllers, Exchange systems, backup servers, or any of the environment in which the backups were created, but you still need to recover some of your mail data. Would you take comfort in the knowledge that your recovery tapes were a short drive away?
If you’re using Symantec’s Backup Exec product, I wouldn’t be so sure. Read on for more of my rant on Symantec… and partially Microsoft.
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19Jun
Here at Applied Trust, we’re often asked tricky IT questions – sometimes, we have answers that might be interesting to a larger audience. The “Dear Ned” podcast is our chance to share these IT infrastructure questions and answers. Larry Nelson from w3w3.com will be interviewing us for regular episodes throughout 2009.
Our first two “Dear Ned” episodes are already on-line and accessible over at w3w3.com! The first gives an introduction to the series and a discussion of the Conficker worm. The second is a followup to an earlier blog post, and addresses the question “I saw your blog recommending setting data center thermostats to 75°. Do you really do that? And if so, how’s that working out?”.
Do you have a tricky IT question? Submit it here and it may be the next Dear Ned topic!
A special thanks to our friend Don Wrege for writing and recording our truly wonderful Dear Ned jingle!
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10Jun
Author: trent
Categories: Ramblings
What a crazy day at Applied Trust! Traditionally, we’ve stuck to technical or at least IT topics on this blog, but today I’m making an exception to share some good news.
First, last night at the annual CSIA Apex awards dinner, Applied Trust won the Apex Distinguished Services award. For those of you that aren’t familiar with the Apex awards, they are truly the “academy awards for Colorado technology.” The Distinguished Services award recognizes the company whose professional services enable its customers to conduct their businesses more effectively and efficiently, and that has demonstrated not only innovative solutions but also tangible benefits. This award is an incredible honor for us, and a fantastic surprise.
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