Remote work is not a trend, it is likely to increase. In light of the recent Wuhan Coronavirus many companies have been left scrambling to figure out how to set up employees for remote working. Seemingly overnight, remote work has gone from that rare unicorn of workforce arrangements to a standard component of many people’s…
MPLS stands for Multiprotocol Label Switching and it is used in designing and routing wide area networks (WAN). The technology directs data from one node (locaiton) to the next based on short path labels rather than long network addresses. This allows the routers at each branch avoid complex lookups in a routing table. This technique…
In light of a worldwide pandemic school teachers, customer care teams, solutions specialists and staff functions have had to be moved to remote workers. IT also has gone remote as do a lot of retail associates for certain sectors who can. Everything that can move to a work-at-home environment has or is being moved until…
One of the best things about being in a technology driven society is that many of us can work anywhere. As long as we have an internet connection, it’s relatively easy for us to get most of our day-to-day work done. To build that report, manage our sales teams, send that email, or set up…
In 1997, when Billy Beane took the general manager position for the Oakland A’s, a Major League baseball team with lower-than-average payrolls, the businessman/baseball player applied a new type of statistical analysis to find his winning team. Nine years later, the Athletics ranked 24th (out of 30 teams) in player payroll but had the 5th-best…