While attending the Ingram-Micro Spring Partner Connection Summit this May in sunny Hollywood, Florida, I watched lifeguards rescue swimmer after swimmer that lost track of their location in the ocean and were pulled out to sea in a dangerous riptide. My wife and I couldn’t understand why swimmers weren’t splashing within the limits of the […]
Evaluating 1:1 Initiatives
I was talking with a school administrator recently that is retiring from his Superintendent’s position this June. Earlier this year, his School Board had been discussing and planning a 1:1 laptop initiative. The Superintendent is tech-saavy; he can knowledgeably reboot servers and run commands from terminal, but also knows how to make technology work as […]
Schooled in the Cloud
Cloud computing and collaborative environments topped the 2010 Horizon Report of technologies to watch and expect in the K-12 arena for the coming year, and both private companies and publicly funded entities are creating and merging products to meet that expectation. Infrastructure Technology Solutions serves 20+ K-12 education clients throughout Eastern Iowa with security cameras, […]
Smart Web Strategies for Small Business
Before we built our data center and developed our consulting offerings, we built a lot of web sites for customers. With a guy to write code and a guy with a sharp eye for design, and we could roll out sites that showcased businesses’ products and services fairly quickly. The customers we worked with didn’t […]
The Largest Cloud
It’s funny that when we talk about cloud computing and the major players, we mention Google, Amazon, Rackspace and others. Recently, though, cloud experts are pointing out that another agent claims a large chunk of real estate in the cloud. This real estate is actually a widespread network of computers infected and controlled by viruses […]