Category: IT Issues & Insights

Internet Outages In Schools Give Districts a Failing Grade

schools get failing connectivity grade

Internet outages do more than inconvenience school districts. For many, they disrupt class curriculum, halt testing, disrupt parent communications and make homework inaccessible. With so much learning moving online, schools can’t afford to lose connectivity.

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Interop News: Experts at Interop Talk About the Role of the CIO, Shadow IT & The Future of the Cloud

interop news

Here are three Interop news articles from the October, 2014 event. “The New CIO: C Stands For Change” via InformationWeek, “IT pros should pay attention to ‘shadow IT,’ Interop NY keynoters urge” via ITworld, and “Interop News: The Future Of Cloud Computing” via InformationWeek.

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GoDaddy and the Terrible, Horrible, Very Bad, No Good DNS Day

No DNS no internet

Today many GoDaddy users suffered the misfortune of having their websites inaccessible for several hours because of DNS issues. Think about it. What’s the cost of having your website down? We found some startling statistics about network downtime. To give credit to the GoDaddy team, they acknowledged the problem, apologized for the inconvenience and maintained… Read more »

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