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Opinion Piece By CompTIA Member And Alvaka Networks EVP Kevin McDonald
I’ve noticed a lot of gratuitous talk by our legislators about being all for small business and protecting the individual. They bandy about rhetoric about the Constitution and consistently are finding rights that are not spelled out or even vaguely contained in its language. Then they blatantly violate a key provision that is in fact clearly spelled out.
The Dangers Of Posting Your Photos Online
Be careful when posting photos on-line. Almost all new smart phones record where and when you took a photo. Many of the new high-end dedicated cameras do the same thing. Beyond the photo that you see and innocently post is a wealth of data you may not want to publish. That data is called EXIF, for Exchangeable Image Format.
Making Trademark Enforcement An Actual Profit Center
I read about a new product today from a company I never heard about. They are called CitizenHawk. (http://www.citizenhawk.com/brand-protection.aspx) I have never used or tested their product so this blog is not any sort of endorsement. I am writing about them as they have some interesting promises that they make.
Make It Work Abruptly Closes
A few years ago when the economy was stronger and investment capital more readily available I remember hearing advertisements on the radio from a company called “Make It Work.” They were advertising IT services that appeared to be targeted at SOHOs (small offices and home offices) and individuals. The advertisements were good and they talked about little red Mini Coopers the techs traveled in. I even saw a few.
Honest VARs and MSPs face problems with cloud storage services
If you’ve been in the IT industry for awhile, you’ve no doubt noticed that it goes through one hype cycle after another. Many of us witnessed the dot-com explosion, implosion and subsequent MSP market conversion. Watching the cloud hype cycle of the past few years is a little disturbing -- not because I lack excitement about the massive possibilities of distributed computing, utility billing, virtualization advancements and economies of scale; they are large parts of my company’s business model. What bothers me is the extent to which companies will go to make a claim about the cloud. The exaggerations and omissions -- stemming from either ignorance, lack of risk aversion or outright dishonesty -- being used to sell cloud computing and cloud storage services are just nauseating. As an officer of a company competing in this environment, it’s especially hard for me to ignore these problems with cloud storage.
How to Protect Your Company’s Data
As a computer systems network manager and member of the nonprofit High Tech Crime Consortium, Kevin McDonald has seen all manner of data disasters: the medical company whose patient treatment records were lost in a warehouse fire; the police department whose website host vanished overnight; even the careless employee whose leaky liter of Coke ruined a computer server. “If you are a small business and you have a catastrophic loss of data, more likely than not you will never recover,” says McDonald, executive vice president at Alvaka Networks in Irvine, Calif. “Data storage is so cheap now, if you can’t afford it you should shut your business down and do something else.”
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