Feb 27
2018
By Ruby
Nahal, Senior Engineer
If you are a business who has decided to dive into the countless benefits of the “cloud approach” to boost innovation and thus boost productivity, growth and profitability, the next decision is the migration approach. Many different methodologies can be used to migrate to the cloud. Normally you want to really plan this sort of a thing instead of diving head first and using the lowest effort method of fork-lifting your current infrastructure into the cloud. more
Jan 23
2018
By John Lim, CTO
Over the weekend, the residents of Hawaii got some crazy alerts about a missile that had launched. People were in a panic…but it was a false alarm. How can clicking one button immediately send out an alert like this, causing a state-wide panic, with no precautions in place and no “false alarm” alert handy just in case? How does a mistake like that happen? more
Jan 23
2018
By Ruby Nahal, Senior Engineer
Pretty much everyone agrees that IAAS and SAAS is the future for IT as more and more traditional infrastructure is being converted into cloud infrastructure, and more and more businesses are choosing SAAS over in house applications.
As such, there may be less stress imposed on the backups for infrastructure housed in these cloud offerings (Amazon web services, Azure). Yes, the cloud offerings do give us the luxury of scalability, flexibility, and redundancy.
That does not, however, take away the necessity of having a proper backup solution in place.
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Jan 9
2018
By John Lim, CTO
As you may have heard, there are two major security vulnerabilities in the wild coined Spectre and Meltdown. These two vulnerabilities may impact computer, phone and tablet processors dating back to 1995. TekTegrity is working with major technology vendors to immediately address this situation.
What is TekTegrity doing for you?
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Dec 15
2017
By John Lim, CTO
When it comes to tech, most of us don’t have the need to look too deep into the systems we’re using. We go about the day using the system in place and don’t have to think twice about what’s going on under the surface.
But when something goes wrong and all of a sudden a server goes out or a system crashes, we hope that there are some precautions and hidden tricks up the sleeves of our IT company.
Enter: logs.
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Dec 10
2017
By Ruby Nahal, Senior Engineer
The Story Behind Toy Story 2
We all know about the movie “Toy Story 2”. Pixar’s amazing creation where toys save the day. But did you know that the film was almost lost? And all because of human error. The primary files were accidentally deleted and when an attempt was made to recover from tape backups, it was discovered that nothing had been backed up for months due to systems failure. Luckily, Pixar was able to recover from a stray copy of files from the technical director’s personal backups.
We have all heard horror stories or experienced failed backup scenarios. From punch cars to Magnetic tape to the rise of floppy disks to the CD and evolution of Optical disks to the modern era of cloud backups – backup solutions and best practices have gone through a big evolution over the last century.
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Dec 3
2017
By Russ Levanway, CEO
At the beginning of this year, I predicted trends for 2017 and discussed my single biggest concern: security. I talked about the changing security landscape and how crypto-ransomware is a real force to reckon with. Sadly, my predictions turned out to be true.
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Nov 22
2017
By Ruby Nahal, Senior Engineer
It all starts in the cloud
Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of IT resources. This includes computing power, database storage, and applications through a cloud services platform via the internet.
A Cloud services platform owns and maintains the physical servers, the network-connected hardware required for these application services and the redundancy for high availability. You then provision the resources you need through a web console and you pay for what you use.
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Sep 29
2017
By Ruby Nahal, Senior Engineer
Roadblocks to recovery
Right after I came back to the office after maternity leave, I had the pleasure (NOT) of having to deal with a terrible disaster recovery. We were trying to recover a database application from crash-consistent backups and meant lots and lots of hours on the phone. Needless to say, by the end, my nerves were shot.
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Jun 20
2017
By Russ Levanway, CEO
Action = Reaction
Recent events have tested the resolve of our mission ‘Productivity Enhanced, Lives Enriched’ and we’ve decided to do something about it.
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