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By now we’re all pretty well acquainted with the idea of “work anywhere.” In practice, though, “anywhere” does have its limits—but with it’s Rugged Extreme laptop series, Dell is looking to push back at them.   Unless you’ve spent some recent time in the military, on a construction site or working as a police officer, you probably haven’t seen laptops like these. The Rugged Extreme boxes are sold as being waterproof, dustproof, shockproof, resistant to extremes of temperature—in short, pretty well impervious to any of the daily hazards that stand to reduce ordinary laptops to expensive paperweights.   These aren’t designed for whipping through spreadsheets down at the neighborhood Starbuck’s. They’re designed to be taken just about anywhere that work needs to get done, and to perform perfectly even in some pretty brutal conditions. The Rugged Extreme laptops are built and tested to military specifications, and have been shown to ...

AC/DC said it best,—“You’ve been Thunderstruck:” your expensive DR plan has been pushed back into the next fiscal year, like it probably was for the previous 3 years.  If you had only known about a more cost effective method to provide your organization with true DR, the company might have bought into it. Fortunately, there is such an option.   You already know that disasters of various types can strike your business at any time. Fires, floods, lightning strikes, malware attacks and other calamities can and do happen. Thankfully, these aren’t frequent occurrences for most of us – but when they do take place, woe to the unprepared.   In my last blog post, I discussed Backup as a Service (BaaS) and its ability to safeguard data and get problem-plagued companies up and running again within a reasonable time frame. BaaS is a great safeguard for companies that are able to ...

This past week, former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton announced her candidacy for the presidency. As with every election in living memory, we can probably expect her and her fellow candidates to attack one another mercilessly on virtually every issue imaginable. In Secretary Clinton’s case, it’s more than likely that her opponents will raise her private email server as a campaign issue like they did again today. It’s a “nerd” issue if there ever was one – but it’s still worthy of discussion. Clinton’s use of the private Clinton.com email server to send and receive official messages while still a government official raises questions of security and secrecy, and the possible vulnerability of any private network to hacking creates the possibility of espionage or blackmail. It can be said that the decision to use the Clinton.com email server for official correspondence was probably not Secretary Clinton’s most inspired decision. But it ...