On August 4, widespread outage in the Tennessee Valley and other part of the U.S. caused businesses to love revenue. Many retail stores could only accept cash and some couldn’t do transactions of any kind.
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I have a customer that has 2 ISP’s connected to a Cisco ASA. They were recently using SLA monitor and altering their route tables if an interface went down. I am trying to find a solution where they can have both lines active and in use.
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Jim Hill, Director of IT at Admiral Beverage, a beverage production and distribution company, describes how he fool-proofs his IT network.
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Recently, we came across a great post, Hybrid WAN or SD-WAN, on NetCraftsmen. As the article’s author, Peter Welcher, explains there are a number of new offerings in the space. “As witnessed at Network Field Day 9, there is a hotbed of innovation occurring right now in the Hybrid WAN or SD-WAN space. I’m still… Read more »
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How can I make Office 365 and OneDrive work better? Q: We recently made the switch to MS Office 365 and OneDrive for business. We were led to believe it was a smart business choice to migrate these application to the cloud, however we’re struggling with sluggish performance and sometimes our applications are unavailable. What’s… Read more »
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Do you work in education IT? Then you have to see how you compare to the Johnsburg School District in Illinois. In the past, Johnsburg operated 5 buildings with no more than two T-1 lines each. The buildings were interconnected through a VPN, and throughput could only be increased through a command-line. They also had… Read more »
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Cisco ASA 5505 and Ecessa PowerLink Every day we receive emails and phone calls from IT directors and network administrators striving to make their networks run better. We’re going to share some of those questions and our responses with you in a series of “Q&A with Ecessa” posts. Today’s question comes to us from a… Read more »
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Coordinated attacks on fiber optic Internet cables in California are labeled acts of vandalism, and they cost businesses dearly in loss of connectivity, revenue and productivity. Diversify your service!
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Remember when you were in school and you had a big test day? Depending on your study habits, you were likely one of two types of students: You studied hard and walked into the test feeling prepared. You didn’t study and walked into the test hoping for a miracle. If you were the second type… Read more »
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Free coffee cost some Starbucks stores their business. This is why it’s vital to keep systems that rely on an Internet connection–like POS systems– up and running.
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