I never walked into a business without discovering gaping holes in their backup and recovery systems. When an independent business person recently told me their story of woe of losing gigs of files, I pulled this picture up on my phone. While cumbersome and old school, it is my only guarantee that I will not…
Cyberattacks Target Cloud Services
Trust is important. My love of sports reminds me of “having all the bases covered”. We worry about ransomware, identity theft, viruses, and even sometimes internal malfeasance. Now we are reminded that the cloud is not the absolute safety net. Do you have a plan for all contingencies? Are you really prepared? Do you even…
Be Disaster Proof
We worry about ransomware, identity theft, viruses, and even sometimes internal malfeasance. Trust is important. My love of sports reminds me of “having all the bases covered”. We worry about ransomware, identity theft, viruses, and even sometimes internal malfeasance. Now we are reminded that the cloud is not the absolute safety net. Do you have…
Driverless is Coming
Despite my unwillingness to submit to the idea of driverless vehicles, that day may come. People do make mistakes. Distracted by their troubles, texting while driving, thinking about a problem at work, thinking about a problem at home. Wondering about their retirement plan, concerned about the election. All these are but a few of the…
Do You Really Have a Disaster Plan?
Key technology questions to ask yourself, as a business owner. Do you have a written disaster plan? Can everyone understand it? Is there a single source for help? If yes, is that a good thing? Are you absolutely sure you have every contingency covered? What would you hate to lose the most? the least? How…
Changing Fast Enough?
I always loved change. In my technology career I have found pushback to change/innovation in some organizations. My football career made me enjoy change because every week someone had a new wrinkle to try to throw the competition off their plan. Being ahead of that curve is a driving force in my technology plans. Today,…
Flirting With Disaster
Back when I was much younger, I took small businesses from manual, paper-based business operations to automated, computerized systems. The business owners feared the security, reliability, and accuracy of a computer system against their paper-based system I was taking away from them. Throughout my technology career, their concerns remained in the back of my mind….
Communication, Trust and Delivering
20+ years ago someone was telling me how video conferencing was going to eliminate business travel. I politely nodded but inside I was laughing at the insanity of that thought. Nothing replaces face to face communication. It never will. Trust comes from a whole lot more than what we hear and what someone does. It…
Are the Changes Overwhelming? Questions?
When I chose technology as a career some time ago, I embraced the change. It reminded me of playing football, where the good teams always threw something at you to take one out of balance. You had to stay on your toes (literally, in football) to be ready for the surprises. I was constantly trying…
Is it safe? Is it True?
Proper use of any technology requires users to understand all the insights that the technology is delivering, in addition to understanding its weaknesses from its inflexibility. The properly educated user provides insights that no technology can predict. Click here for evidence of the limitations of technology and its consequences in the Wall Street Journal.