Imagine this: You are the CEO of a company that generates hundreds of thousands of data files each year. Your back-up systems include standard servers and secured off-site storage. But September 11 happens or a wild fire threatens your facility. Suddenly greater security is an issue, but you can’t justify the cost or rely on [...]
Continue reading …In the dark days following the terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon, many businesses suffered major revenue losses. Many didn’t recover, and lots that did found new niches for their services.Locally, Old Town Guesthouse in Old Colorado City was among the survivors, but not by doing business as usual.“The terrorist attacks hurt our [...]
Continue reading …CBS’ Marshall Loeb outlines 10 nat’l developing economic trends at luncheon
June 21, 2002 Comments OffMarshall Loeb, senior correspondent with CBS Market Watch, is considered by many to be the dean of American financial forecasting following stints as managing editor of both Fortune and Money Magazine, as well as Time magazine’s business and economy editor.In a recent trip to Colorado Springs to address the Greater Colorado Springs Economic and Development [...]
Continue reading …When Kurt Jensen was laid off from his technology sector job supporting local Department of Defense companies, he did the same thing a lot of the other hundreds of laid-off technology workers in Colorado Springs did. He became a consultant, with his own company.The company is called Ingenuity Source, LLC. His specialty: educating companies on [...]
Continue reading …When the national media shows coverage of the fire in the mountains west of Colorado Springs, they’re telling people Colorado is on fire – and that just isn’t the case, according to a handful of tourism officials, elected officials, and even the Mayor of Manitou Springs.But, that’s not to say the fire is not devastating [...]
Continue reading …The security of military data and information on commercial computer networks could be safer because of a new education and research center planned by the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and the U.S. Space Command. It is called the Network Information and Space Security Center. Projects will initially focus on technological and management issues [...]
Continue reading …Last week I joined a group of fifteen realtors on the “Sales Group Tour,” a monthly shuttled event, organized by Steve Wrestler of Prestige Properties. The program is an informal one – cost is just $50 per year to get on the list. What a great, low-key way to get educated about the Pikes Peak [...]
Continue reading …The “Five Nines” (99.999) refers to the “perfect world” of near 100 percent uptime in an information technology network. Between scheduled maintenance of servers, routers, firewalls and LAN’s to intervention both reactively and proactively for viruses, worms, etc., it is, from a practical standpoint, nearly impossible to achieve 99.999 percent uptime. Short of such digital [...]
Continue reading …As one of the partners in the firm sat on the other side of the polished conference table, I could tell he thought I was one brick shy of a full load. I had often seen that same look on my wife’s face. “I don’t think we need a firewall,” he said. “What we do [...]
Continue reading …Frequent-flyer program members are significantly more likely (72 percent) than non-members (60 percent) or “elite” frequent-flyer memberships (59 percent) to book flights online, according to a recent Colorado Springs Airport marketing study. Most flyers book their own flights, with only 27 percent saying they use a corporate travel planner. Business travelers typically book flights with [...]
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