Information Technology Navigator

Author: Bruce Hall, Director of Technology

You had to be living ‘off-grid’ this week if you didn’t hear about the widespread problems that resulted from the millions of consumers trying to download Apple’s new iCloud sharing and data protection service… come on you know you contributed to that problem, I know I was. 

You are tasked with solving your company's latest IT challenge; you decide to set up a meeting with your favorite and not-so-favorite technology manufacturers. Oh yeah, you also remind yourself to include a meeting with your local VAR who always comes through in a pinch when you actually have to deploy something. In your meetings you hear about solutions that will move, manipulate, protect, and organize your data while getting 35/mpg, run on alternative fuel and go from 0-60 in five seconds. After many hours of technology overload and resetting your focus on the initial task at hand, you run into your boss in the hallway. Your boss asks how the project is moving along, you reply "Great. We will be able to get the entire IT staff to and from the office for a month while carrying a cord of wood, towing the company bulldozer, all on a single tank of gas. Waite a minute, do we even have a company bulldozer?"