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Flight Troubles & Business Continuity Planning
by Jake Dwares on January 11, 2023 at 4:15 PM
This morning, the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) system for alerting pilots and airports of real-time hazards, called NOTAM (Notice to Air Missions), went offline around 3:28AM EST. While flights have slowly resumed to normalcy, this recent event is a further example of a bre …
Reflecting on the AWS Outage and Cloud Disruption Risks
by Jake Dwares on December 9, 2021 at 4:38 PM
Cloud computing and cloud hosting popularity has skyrocketed over the past several years, and the trend is likely only to continue to grow. It began as a means to a more efficient way to host data in the cloud rather than on-premises, and COVID-19 amplified the growth and adoption of …
Succession Planning and Testing – Who Will Step Up to the Plate?
by Patrick Hughes on February 1, 2021 at 9:52 AM
Succession planning is so important to organizations, yet so often overlooked. Many folks are not really sure what it is. For those that get the idea of it, many are at a loss for where to start. In the next couple of minutes, I will take you through what succession planning is, how t …
IT Asset Management – Disposal of Assets
by Kyle Daun on October 21, 2020 at 1:30 PM
As we reach the end of this asset management blog series, we have discussed the need for establishing governance policies and procedures, how to acquire hardware and software for your organization, and how to monitor and upgrade assets throughout their lifecycles.
IT Asset Management – Monitoring and Maintaining Assets
by Kyle Daun on August 6, 2020 at 3:45 PM
It has been a few months since my last blog post about IT asset management was published. Daily events are causing rapid changes that organizations are having to adapt to, leaving IT leaders asking, “how do I account for all of my equipment”? This can be accomplished in a variety of w …
IT Asset Management – Acquisition of Assets
by Kyle Daun on May 14, 2020 at 1:15 PM
In part one of this IT asset management blog series, we discussed governance policies and procedures. In this second part to the blog series, we will discuss the process for acquisition of assets from reputable and vetted vendors. A lot has happened since part one was written, which a …