Hurricane Irene, planning, implementing, surviving…
On Friday when hurricane Irene was looking like it was going to hit Connecticut I sent out the email below, just to remind people to backup their data and to secure a copy off-site. While the storm wasn’t as bad as it could of been, three days later some of my clients are still without power. As you can see we were very pro-active in letting people know that hurricanes don’t happen very often in New England and extra precautions needed to be taken. On Saturday night as the storm picked up speed and intensity, our monitoring...
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Cloud computing has been around for awhile but it is increasingly being used for more and more purposes. If you have used an email system such as AOL, GMail or Hotmail you have been technically using the cloud. Websites are also all mostly hosted on remote servers and while outages happen they are usually infrequent. Cloud storage has also been gaining in popularity, but has been slow to catch on due to privacy risks. Configuring cloud storage for secure access can be confusing and difficult and very few standards exist. Amazon’s...
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Custom Application and Web development can get expensive rather quickly, but 2nd Opinion Technology has been providing affordable robust applications and sleek looking CMS based websites for its clients for many years. By using a mixture of off the shelf software, templates and a vast library of code we can meet the most demanding challenges head on. All of our websites use a CMS backend and an enhanced feature rich template, once the look and feel of the design is finished it is easy to maintain using basic word processing skills. A...
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