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Currently Level3 is having routing problems in the Dallas area. Our customers using Comcast and Verizon may be affected as Comcast peers with Level3 for internet access in this area. This will affect users of Sharepoint and hosted Exchange Services. Show Level 3 (Baltimore, MD) Traceroute to ca[...]

We are preparing to roll out new Remote Reboot Devices for our fully managed customers over the next two months. All existing clients will be contacted to schedule an installation in the near future. Any new customers that are brought on board will have this installed as part of the on-boarding proc[...]

I put together a little script for our roll-out of the new ExchangeDefender platform for our clients. This is put in with addition to any firewall rules on all clients (just in case the firewall is not capable of IP rules that granular). This automatically puts the ExchangeDefender IPs into the allo[...]

Jared Goralnick of SET Consulting has started a non-profit group called Bootstrap Maryland that’s mission statement is simply: "Bring together young entrepreneurs and the necessary tools for running a lean and successful technology business. We want to see Maryland, DC, and Virginia flourish wi[...]

We have begun the roll-out process for our new monitoring platform this week, which is great news for all of our clients. With this new system we will be offering free basic monitoring for our clients Internet and Servers. The basic monitoring will simply include is it up monitoring and alerting, wi[...]

It may be Friday, but I'm still working to recover from my trip to SMB Nation in Seattle last weekend. Great event, with lots of excellent content, lots of great vendors and plenty of good times. We all enjoyed ourselves, it was nice to finally meet some of the non-Ben's from Calyptix, and plenty of[...]

I'm looking to run a little Virus Fight Club, but I want to expand the test set and use exclusively UTM firewalls for my test. I'm looking for two things, people that can provide malware samples and people that can run tests on various firewalls for me. Currently I have the following UTMs covered[...]

I’m currently in the early stages of talks with another company about some cross collaboration and it just so happens that we are both users of the PSA from Autotask. I’m curious if there is anyone out there that has used Autotask between two companies to pass ticket assignments back and forth a[...]

Author’s Note: I am currently a MSP Partner with Calyptix Security, and have been selling their product for about a year now. I am exceedingly happy with my decision to work with Calyptix, and for the sake of transparency thought I should make this point clear to readers that are new to my blog, s[...]

My long trusty Dell Dimension 9100 started overheating last week due to a power supply fan failure. This machine has been extremely faithful to me and for being a first generation dual core system, I can’t complain about my experiences with the box at all. I ordered a PC Power and Cooling unit to [...]