For years, people have trusted the SSL certificate green lock on their Google, Firefox, Internet Explorer, edge browser for safety and security.I hate to break it to you, but SSL certificates are broke. The Story of Symantec Security CertificatesIn the early 90s, a famous company called Symantec was handing out security certificates like free samples of Tide in the mail. Everyone...
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As you may be aware, we are a very AWS oriented shop when it comes to our cloud services. We provision servers, workspaces, EC2 instances, etc., all day long. With our certifications as an AWS Partner, it allows us to concentrate on this single dynamic, powerful platform and perform our jobs extremely well. Below is a story of “you get what you pay for” and how a slight increase in cost can lead to a lot of savings when it comes to dealing with issues.
As we go into the weekend, we would like to introduce you to something in the IT world known as Read-Only Fridays.Read-only Fridays is a term that the IT industry uses for no major changes to any infrastructure when approaching the weekend. The reason why a simple: support hours from the vast majority of manufacturers are usually Monday through Friday...
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A lot of businesses – good or bad – sometimes just shoot from the hip. They make up ideas, policies, and methodologies to suit the immediate need. Sounds good in theory but has very bad scalability. Why IT Policy and Procedure is So Important A Triton technologies we have ex-military for the majority of our administrative staff. The reason why is that we have a...
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Why terms and conditions matter. It has been proven time and time again that people and companies do not read the terms and conditions when accepting the installation or the acceptance of services from vendors. There are many notable cases including some software companies and vetting the fact that they now own your children just as a joke. But in the...
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Good vendors are hard to come by. In 16 years of business, we have dealt with literally hundreds of different vendors. From computer manufacturers, network hardware manufacturers, software, physical developers of infrastructure and more, we can say with certainty that good vendors are very hard to come by. Why We Do Vendor Management At Triton Technologies, we do vendor management for our clients,...
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Why Triton Technologies really loves Amazon.In the IT cloud sphere, there are multiple competitors. You have Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google, Virtual, and many other standalone providers. We have used multiple ones and are currently working with multiple iterations of most of those companies.Nothing is Wrong with Microsoft or Google, But...
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Over the years we have recommended to our clients that they do not use the DNS services provided by their ISP. There are multiple reasons for that. Maintaining Network Order and Security with Forwarders Since most of our clients have a server or virtual server through Amazon through best practices, we channel all DNS traffic to that server and then out again...
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In the last couple months, we've got an unexpected surge in warranty claims. It didn't matter who the manufacturer was: it was across the board. From Dell to Lenovo, Apple, and HP: hard drives, motherboards, and screens all began to fail. It’s par for the norm for hardware, and so it is not unexpected that hardware will fail even if...
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In the last week, an update proliferated through our clients' servers. A small minority of our clients' servers went down during these updates. A vast majority did not have a problem at all. But that small minority represented hundreds of users. One of the questions I was asked was: do we really need to do updates? Yes, You Need To Do...
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