“For Andrew McLean and I, who set up AppLayer in 2009, the catalyst for us moving from using our own personal laptops to setting up a secure networked system was a simple cup of coffee. A cold cup, actually. It brought Andrew’s laptop to a halt when the spilled liquid met the computer’s hot electronics, [...]
Hind sight is 20/20, how many times do we hear that day? No matter how often we hear it though, we still seem to fail to take preemptive measures at protecting ourselves from common things: like data loss, or server crashes. No matter what make or model, virtual/or physical, technology you use, there is still [...]
You probably don’t need anyone to explain to you the advantages of redundancy. Almost everyone has learned this at some point, probably the hard way, for example by discovering at the last minute that a carefully crafted PowerPoint presentation is inaccessible because of equipment snafus like a laptop that gets stolen or is incompatible with the projector.