An Operations and Maintenance Approach to Improving Air Quality
The COVID-19 pandemic has been disruptive to physical workplaces for so many reasons. One of the biggest challenges for businesses has been adapting offices to new and often equally disruptive safety standards – social distancing, sanitization, contact tracing, etc. While there’s keen emphasis on these practices, indoor air quality (IAQ) in many offices is only now getting the attention it deserves.
System Considerations for RHN Satellite
tl;dr: DB and RPM storage are the big system design concerns, not memory or OS install. Average channel size is up to 15K packages at 250KB per, meaning 3.5GB of DB table space per channel. Actual RPM storage is about 30GB per channel. Make sure you can grow each partition easily.
Let’s fix Status Code 2!
Who hasn’t run into that pesky old ‘Status Code 2’ problem? Your backup fails with a NetBackup message indicating that "none of the requested files were backed up."
Well, let me dig through my notes and see what I did about it…
Ah, yes! I remember when a customer ran into a Status Code 2 error when running an SQL database backup. In my investigation to help them fix the problem, I stumbled across a Symantec support article specifically focused on this issue.
The KISS Method to Troubleshooting Network Connectivity Issues
When having what seems to be a complex network connectivity problem, sometimes the best method to tackle the issue is to implement the KISS Method. Look for the simple stuff first and keep these tips in mind when troubleshooting network connectivity.
Top 10 Tips for Troubleshooting Network Connectivity
Cybersecurity is a Shared Responsibility
We are approaching the end of national “Cyber Security Awareness Month,” so let’s take a look at some top cybersecurity tips we should all adhere to:
Technology Implementation goes Hand-in-Hand with Therapy, Steps 4 and 5
In the first blog entry of this series, I used this AdultSwim video on YouTube to outline the five stages of grief and then related them to the five steps to a successful technology implementation. The subsequent entries included have gone into more detail for each stage and step – Needs/Denial, Process/Anger, and Training/Bargaining. That brings us to this final entry in this series, which will cover:
Step 4: Technology Rollout; or, Stage 4: Depression
Stage 5: Rallying the Users; or Stage 5: Acceptance
Along the way I’ve drawn a comparison between Technology Implementation, Therapy and the Kübler-Ross Model for Grief. Implementing new technology in your agency, or any organization, can be hard and if not done right can have catastrophic consequences. Don’t believe me? Just ask Hershey; yes, the chocolate company. Hershey Food Corp spent $112 million and 30 months of implementation effort, however, when they attempted to go live in July 1999, the company experienced catastrophic failures with sales order processing, which had a crippling effect in shipping delays and deliveries of incomplete orders. That’s a lot of melting chocolate.
Technology Implementation Kübler-Ross Model, Step 3 /Stage 3
This is the fourth entry in a six-part blog series. In the first blog entry in this series, I revisited the YouTube clip outlining the five stages and focused on Step 1 Assess Needs/Stage 1 Denial. I can’t get enough of that video…if you haven’t watched it yet, now is as good a time as any.
Step 3: Training and Discipline; or, Stage 3: Bargaining
Technology Implementation Kübler-Ross Model, Step 2 /Stage 2
This is the third entry in a six-part blog series. In my last blog entry in this series, I revisited the YouTube clip outlining the five stages and focused on Step 1 Assess Needs/Stage 1 Denial. Now, it’s time to talk about:
Autodesk NavisWorks: Avoiding Project Pitfalls
Autodesk® NavisWorks® software solutions help project design and building professionals to unite their contributions into a single synchronized building information model. [acronym] online investigates how this new software can bring public sector project stakeholders together.
Maximizing CAD & GIS Technology ROI
In this article, Pete Kelsey, K-TEK Solutions’ founder and Autodesk Certified Instructor, shares his proven three-step process to help government entities manage change and maximize CAD and GIS technology ROI through standardization, implementation and education.