By Josh Erdman, IT Pro When you imagine a lab you probably think of white lab coats, test tubes, clipboards, and beakers. In this way, Baker Wine & Grape Analysis is your typical lab, white coats and all, but there is something else going on here that feels very different from what I expect. It’s the… Read more »
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By Russ Levanway, CEO So you’ve identified your company’s mission. Now, are you ready to defend it? As times have changed, a lot of what we buy has a very limited lifespan and is not easy to repair. “They don’t make it like they used to” is actually quite accurate. The phone in your pocket… Read more »
By Jill Lowe, Healthcare Account Manager Can you believe a quarter of 2017 is already behind us? For those who have not yet started on their MACRA MIPS plan, it may seem a bit daunting. But keep in mind, what we do in 2017 can put us in a position to receive the highest possible… Read more »
By Joshua Erdman, IT Pro Flour, eggs, sugar, butter, baking soda, salt… Individually these ingredients would never be considered a meal, but together you have a good base for some cookies. The same can be said for the tech scene on the Central Coast. Individually no one city can claim to have all that is… Read more »
By Ruby Nahal, Senior Engineer With the rise of hosted exchange services like Office 365, it has increasingly become a challenge to preserve Outlook performance on RDS servers. Back in the day, you could only run Outlook in online mode on a remote desktop server. This was for the better because back then exchange deployments… Read more »
By Josh Erdman, IT Pro Nestled between fields of strawberries and spinach lies the powerhouse that fuels the National Hotrod Association (NHRA). Santa Maria Valley, with its rich agricultural and viticulture heritage, is also the home of Top Fuel drag racing legend Alan Johnson Performance Engineering. Inside Alan Johnson Performance Engineering, 610-pound blocks of aluminum are… Read more »
By Russ Levanway, CEO Asset or Liability? Once upon a time, people came to IT companies like us to do two basic things: 1) take care of their computers and 2) upgrade their equipment. IT was essentially an expense line to buy and maintain hardware and software. In other words, a liability. As times have… Read more »
By Joshua Erdman, IT Pro I never thought I would be writing an article on the Arts. For the last 22 years my whole world has been all about tech. From studying Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science at Cal Poly to running an IT business for 11 years, I had made up my mind that the… Read more »
By Ruby Nahal, Senior Engineer Domain Controllers and Recovery The USN rollback issue may not be an everyday problem for some organizations, but as an Engineer at a Managed Service Provider (MSP), I have seen my fair share of the condition. The problem is global – and is caused from restores of domain controllers in… Read more »
By Josh Erdman, IT Pro I’m sitting behind the wheel of a big rig. The odometer reads an incredible 608,000 miles. Normally when I visit CFL it is an IT Consultant checking in on their network, but not today. Today I am learning about what it takes to be a truck driver with my big rig… Read more »