Announcing our digital preservation and imaging practice
A new chapter for the company. Drone imaging, document and photo scanning, map digitization, fragile-document handling, and legacy media migration are now formally part of what we do.
— Field notes
Stories from the workshop.
Real lessons from the field. Project breakdowns, technical deep dives, and the occasional opinion about why your network is slow.
Cloud
Why the cloud is not always the answer
The cloud is great. It is not universal. Workloads that still belong on-prem and how to think about the choice.
Security
Email is still the front door
Despite years of "email is dying," email is still where most attacks land. What real email security looks like.
Networking
Switching out a switch without taking down the office
A practical guide to replacing a network switch in production with minimal disruption. Preparation matters more than the swap itself.
Managed IT
When in-house IT outgrows the spreadsheet
Every IT team starts with spreadsheets. The question is when to leave them. Here are the signs and what to move to.
Engineering
Federated identity for organizations that have never had it
A primer on federated identity for organizations still managing accounts in 12 different systems. What changes and why it matters.
Security
The vendor risk question nobody asks
Vendor risk management has become a checkbox exercise. Here is the question that actually changes the answer.
Networking
Picking a managed firewall vendor
Firewall vendor marketing is a sea of acronyms. Here is what to actually evaluate.
Engineering
Designing internal tools that people will actually use
Internal software lives or dies on adoption. Most of it dies. Lessons from building tools that people actually use.
Public Sector
County IT and the federation question
Counties wrestle with whether to federate IT across departments or keep them separate. There is no universal answer, but there is a useful framework.