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AppliedTrust featured on One Day, One Job!

27Apr

Author: ned Categories: Infrastructure, Ramblings, Recruiting Comments: 0

I’m very excited to announce that AppliedTrust is being featured today on One Day, One Job, the popular site that highlights a different hiring employer every day. Created by Willy Franzen, One Day, One Job is a unique resource for college students beginning their careers. This is awesome exposure for our company and a great opportunity for us to find the perfect new Seal to join our team!

As our regular readers know, AppliedTrust is looking for a great infrastructure engineer who wants to work in Boulder, Colorado. This role is a “Jack of all trades” within the broad field of Information Technology – they get to play with networks, servers, software, and security. One ideal candidate for this job would be a graduating Computer Science or Engineering major who has experience with Windows and Linux system administration and doesn’t want to spend all day programming. We would definitely also consider someone with more work experience. If you are interested, or know of a good candidate, please check out our jobs page: http://www.appliedtrust.com/jobs

Tags: applied trust, boulder, popular, Recruiting

Don’t Forget to Vote to Bring Google Fiber to Boulder by March 21!

18Mar

Author: beth Categories: Infrastructure, Ramblings Comments: 1

In case you haven’t heard, Google is offering to build an experimental network in a community with speeds up to 100 times faster than current Internet speeds, and at an affordable price. This new network is expected to radically change how communities access information and interact with the world.

Boulder is one of many communities vying to be the lucky recipient of this experimental network. As a city known for its smart people, progressive policies, and high tech companies, we are a great fit for a project like this. To capitalize on this, the City has stepped up efforts to get as many people as possible to vote, both by setting up a fan page on Facebook and by declaring this weekend “Boulder Fiber Weekend.” Although nominations are being accepted until March 26, the City is hoping to have everyone vote before midnight on March 21.

This is an awesome opportunity for us to bring in more jobs, boost our local economy, and enhance communications across all sectors of our community. And, of course, having lightning-fast Internet speeds would be pretty sweet, too. So, what are you waiting for? Vote now!!

Tags: boulder, fiber, Google

Ignite Heats Up Record Crowd at Boulder Theater

18Mar

Author: crossi Categories: Ramblings Comments: 0

Ignite Boulder is one of those events that seems to fit right into the unique culture of this town. What is Ignite Boulder, you might ask? Well, let me sum it up in one word: entertaining. Ignite events are held all over the country, and the format is pretty simple. Presenters are chosen by the organizers and the attendees weeks before the event via online voting, and anyone can sign up to present. Each Ignite has a theme, such as Heart and Soul, and the presentations are supposed to have some connection to that theme. This is where it gets interesting. Each presentation is only allowed to be 5 minutes and 20 slides long, and slides auto-advance every 15 seconds. This leads so some very quick, but generally enlightening, and almost always funny presentations.

Pursuit of Happiness

16Feb

Author: zack Categories: IT Management, Ramblings Comments: 0

Boulder, CO

In a recent study conducted by The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, Boulder received top honors as the overall happiest, healthiest, and most optimistic city in the United States. The study surveyed more than 350,000 Americans across the country and assessed their lives based on a variety of pre-defined categories. While Boulder did not sweep every category looked at by the researchers, it did get the highest rank in the “Work Experience” arena. At Applied Trust we have always known this was true, but it is nice to get some nationwide visibility for it.

We care about having a good work and life balance for everyone that works here. That’s why the ATE Employee Canon is so important to us. Having this realization and making conscious, proactive maneuvers to maintain it is a key component to fostering a positive “work experience” like the one discussed in the survey. The section measured job satisfaction, ability to use one’s strengths at work, trust and openness in the workplace, and whether one’s supervisor treats him or her more like a boss or partner. These metrics align very closely to how we view work and how we want to spend our time there.

Head in the Clouds at BLUG

04Mar

Author: ned Categories: Infrastructure Comments: 0

I’m really looking forward to speaking at next week’s Boulder Linux User’s Group meeting, where I’ll try to cut through some of the marketing hype and provide real-world examples of ways to use “the cloud” in a real production IT department. If you’re a Linux sysadmin in the Boulder area and haven’t yet made it to a BLUG meeting, next Thursday night is a great time to come check it out!

Here’s the meeting information:

Our monthly meetings are at 7:00 PM on the second Thursday of each
month at the offices of Aztek Networks., 2477 55th St, Suite 202,
Boulder, CO. A typical meeting consists of an hour-long talk followed
by a raffle for books, and then a question-and-answer period.

And a little blurb about the talk:

Cloud Computing for the rest of us: IT Infrastructure on the
Shoulders of Giants

Cloud computing is the new "web 2.0" - everyone's got one.  We'll
focus on Linux-specific infrastructure offerings "in the cloud" and
how you can use them in production today.  By taking advantage of
on-demand, pay-as-you-go Linux servers and related services, you can
save money today while simultaneously increasing performance and
availability.  We will get hands-on during the meeting with Linux
cloud solutions from Amazon and RackSpace.  We'll also take a step
back and look at architectures for scaling Linux services "in the
cloud".

Hope to see you there!

Tags: blug, boulder, cloud computing, linux

Boulder Businesses Meet for Change

24Nov

Author: ned Categories: Green IT Comments: 0

Last week’s 10 For Change meeting was a success – there was a great turnout and lots of good conversation. I had fun sitting on the panel, and each of the other panelists had something interesting to share…

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