Category Archives: Editorial

You Need Offline Backups

Posted on February 16, 2019 by

If you hadn’t heard about it, VFEMail may be dead. At least, that’s what the founder was thinking in this article. A malicious hacking incident took place last week, and though they’re back up and running, who knows if customers will stick by … Continue reading →

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A Supercomputer in My Pocket

Posted on February 15, 2019 by

I work with data on a regular basis, and I really depend on my cell phone to help me with both work and life. I regularly make notes and get ideas for articles and editorials from things that happen when … Continue reading →

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Someone Lost My Data

Posted on February 14, 2019 by

It was bound to happen. I’m sure it’s happened before, but this event was interesting to me as it wasn’t a customer issue, but a cloud vendor problem. There was an outage in Azure on Jan 29, which happens, but … Continue reading →

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Google’s Expensive Confusing Rules

Posted on February 13, 2019 by

I worked through the Y2K crisis. I call it a crisis because so many of us were worried and millions, probably hundreds of millions of dollars were spent by companies trying to ensure their software systems would work when the … Continue reading →

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