The governor of Massachusetts, where I live, just closed schools for another month. After just a couple weeks of this, my teenage boys are already restless and actually want to go back. I love my kids, but, like most of us, I am used to spending at...

It’s getting harder and harder these days to find a company that doesn’t use business continuity management in cloud computing. If you’re one of the businesses that haven’t made the switch, you’re putting yourself at a huge disadvantage and...

In my all of my modest IT career, I’ve not seen or heard of something quite like the buzz surrounding the COVID19 coronavirus. Among the concerns of personal health and safety, customers are turning to me and iuvo Technologies, looking for guidance...

With the likelihood of Covid-19 (Coronavirus) having at least some impact upon the United States in the near future, IT departments will be asked to provide a response. For organizations that already have highly mobile workforces, the response from...

Not terribly long ago, Amazon introduced Transit Gateways, a nifty service that simplifies AWS networking. A transit gateway (or TGW) acts like a lightweight router that can be used to connect multiple VPCs, potentially in multiple accounts,...

All startups, biotech or otherwise, need IT. Email, file storage, means to collaborate (chat, phones, meetings), laptops, networking etc. all have to be working before day one. That is, this all has to be working before one can even think about...

Documentation.  Nobody likes it, but the alternative of not having it is a potential disaster when it comes to an IT environment.  Have you ever stepped back and thought to yourself, what if something happened and I did not know how to seamlessly move...

A Story From Another Century

A few years after its initial release, I had the opportunity to discuss development of Jini (more recently known as Apache River) with one of the lead software engineers on the project[1]. Jini has a very complex...

I have a friend who used to be a member of the MIT Blackjack Team. He's fond of making the assertion that he could "teach a stick of wood to count cards". It's obviously hyperbole, but the point is that it's not that hard to teach somebody to count...