Once upon a time, a merchant took a customer’s money in exchange for a spindle of fabric or a sack of flour. After completing the exchange, she wrote the details of the purchase in a ledger so that she could keep track of the monthly sales figures. Today, the methods for keeping track of monthly sales even for the smallest of small businesses holds little resemblance to those [...]
Just over a year ago, you might remember the day Amazon technology died. Lasting for 4 hours, many companies probably thought it felt like death. Amazon Web Services (AWS) servers crashed at 12:30 p.m. on a Tuesday afternoon and never came back online until close to 5 o'clock later that day. 4 trillion pieces of data inaccessible. Hundreds of millions of dollars lost for close to 200,000 [...]
“Hey Curtis, please call 423 and ask them what the technical problem is. I don’t have time to deal with them and don’t really want to anyway.” “Yeah they’re just a home user and not really that big a deal anyway, fit it in when you can this week.” Advanced Technology Consultants exists to make sure you never have to do business with these guys again. [...]
