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When things go *boom* in the night . . .

Heck, how about when things go *boom* during the day? It is every techs worst nightmare: “Uh, the server won’t boot up.” “What does this smoke rolling out of the back of the server mean?” “We lost all power to our building last night, and when the power company turned it on this morning; we…

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Weird Stuff Happens…

Mavidea customers have learned over the years that we are paranoid about backups and disaster recovery.  We are constantly pushing to improve backup processes and technology.  I was listening to a computer security podcast last week (Security Now with Steve Gibson – it’s geeky but you’ll learn a ton if you listen) and they were…

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When to Consider a Server

I spend a lot of my time at Mavidea searching for solutions that solve problems.  Sometimes the problems are focused on security – protecting data from outside and inside misuse; sometimes they are focused are increasing worker efficiency – how can I make the computer network so stable that users can keep working and be…

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