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03 Nov

When It Rains, Grab a Cisco Umbrella

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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10 Mar

Always Online: Industries That Never Sleep

by Trave Harmon

in Managed IT

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We have a client who absolutely must be online, ALL THE TIME. Are they a stock broker? A police station? Bank? Nope. Solar array farm. Yup, fields, and fields of solar panels. The Power Must Flow Why? Simple. The electric company doesn't tell them when they aren't generating power, and if there is no power being generated, the return on investment of the...