Thousands of Internet Services Unavailable Following Amazon AWS outage

End users around the globe are calling their respective help desks today reporting issues with popular internet services, including streaming services, Amazon’s Alexa, Ring, and Kindle devices, and many well known iPhone and Android Apps. Users who attempted to console themselves with a cheeseburger found that the McDonalds app is also unavailable.

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Cryptojacking: A Love Story

How do you know that coffee is really from Columbia? I mean, they’re spending a lot on advertising to make you believe that, but is there really any way to know? What about contracts, land titles, or marriage certificates? What about your identification? Can we use technology to prove something is authentic? Can we know that those beans are really 100% pure Colombian Coffee?

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Tech We Love: Openpath

Last year we were finishing the construction of our new headquarters. During this process we needed to pick an access control solution (physical door system) that gave us more flexibility.

Openpath was exactly what we were looking for. It provided a cloud based door locking system that allowed us to have touchless entry, ditching the cards and using our phones to authenticate to unlock doors. Once the system identified we should be allowed in, you can just waive your hand over the door sensors and they would unlock.

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Clark Beggs
What is SD-WAN? Top Ten Things You Need to Know

Anyone who types “What is SD WAN?” into the search bar, looking for a simple definition, might soon stumble headlong into a sea of vendors, carriers, and providers touting diverse features and benefits, Gartner magic quadrants, and the sort of security concerns that accompany new technology. Our engineers explained that SD-WAN is a marketing term that can mean several things. On the surface, SD-WAN stands for “Software Defined Wide Area Network” which is proof that technical people are bad at naming things. We apologize for this. To make it up to you, let’s demystify this a little bit together.

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Tech We Love: reMarkable 2

Let’s face it, taking notes during meetings is tough. If you’re on a computer it’s often perceived as you’re not engaged. The alternative is handwritten notes that end up in a pile, get lost or never get converted to a digital format.

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Clark Beggs
The Values That are Core to Datapath

Datapath’s core values help us make decisions every day. Hiring decisions, sales decisions, and everything in between. Any member of the Datapath team is well aware of these values and understands what it means to make them part of their core.

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Clark Beggs
SOC It To Us

As cyber security breaches increase the requirements to ensure the compliance of your organizations and those that you work with is going to increase. Datapath believes it’s important to use processes such as the SOC certification to ensure your processes and procedures are compliant and aligning with safe cyber security best practices.

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David Darmstandler
5 Keys To Managing Your Remote Team

At Datapath, certain changes to our tools and practices have helped us manage our teams, our customers, and our operations with increased efficiency and success.

Here’s our guide for managers to help your virtual team perform to its full potential. These are five actions you can take as a leader to manage your remote team more effectively.

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Devin Beggs