Food, water, shelter… internet?
October 11th, 2011
Food, water, shelter… internet?
2011 Cisco Connected World Technology Report finds that 55% of college students and 62% of employees under 30 say they could not live without the internet
What ever happened to pizza, beer, music, dating and cars? Cisco’s survey of 2800 college students and young employees in 14 countries revealed the following:
- 1 in 3 of those surveyed consider the internet a fundamental human resource such as air, food, water and shelter.
- 4 out of 5 believe the internet is vitally important and part of their daily life’s sustanance.
- More than half think the internet is “an integral part of their lives.”
- 2 out of 3 college students globally would choose an internet connection over a car.
- 40% of global college students say the internet is more important than dating, friends or music.
- 27% of global college students prefer Facebook to dating, friends or music. Within certain countries, updating Facebook ranked as their highest priority over all other choices.
- 66% of students and 58% of young employees cite a mobile device such as a laptop, smartphone or tablet as “the most important technology in their lives.”
- Only 4% of those surveyed said the newspaper is their most important tool for accessing information.
- 1 out of 5 students had not bought a physical book in a bookstore (excluding textbooks necessary for a class) in the last 2 years–OR NEVER AT ALL!
- 91% of students and 88% of young employees have a Facebook account.
- 81% of those students and 73% of those employees check their Facebook page at least once a day.
- 1 out of 3 of those students and 3 out of 10 those employees check their Facebook page at least 5 TIMES A DAY.
- Students reported constant online interruptions while doing homework or projects from social media updates, instant messaging and phone calls -
- 84% reported being interrupted at least once an hour
- 24% said they are interrupted 3 to 5 times an hour
- 12% said they are interrupted so often they lose count
- 70% of employees surveyed “friended” their managers and/or co-workers on Facebook, indicating a blurring of work and personal lives.
- Of employees who use Twitter, 68% follow the activity of either the manager or colleagues.
What does this mean to you and your business? Attitudes toward information access, mobile devices, and social media will influence the future of work –from business communications and work lifestyles to corporate cultures and talent acquisition. As a result, increasing demands for information access
will put new demands on businesses and their networks.
Meraki MR16 Dual Radio 802.11n Access Point
October 11th, 2011
The Meraki MR16 is an enterprise class, dual-concurrent 802.11n access point designed for high-density deployments in large offices, schools, hospitals, hotels and large retail stores. The MR16 features dual-concurrent, dual-band operation and advanced 802.11n technologies such as MIMO and beam forming, delivering the high throughput and reliable coverage required by the most demanding business applications like voice and video.
The MR16 is monitored 24×7 and managed through the Meraki Enterprise Cloud Controller, with an intuitive browser-based interface that delivers real-time alerts if your network encounters problems. Remote diagnostics tools enable real-time troubleshooting over the web, meaning multi-site, distributed networks can be managed remotely. The MR16’s firmware is always kept up to date from the cloud. New features, bug fixes, and enhancements are delivered seamlessly over the web, so you never have to manually download software updates or worry about missing security patches. And it self heals, responding automatically to switch failures and other errors.
The MR16 features integrated, easy-to-use security technologies to provide secure connectivity for employees and guests alike. Advanced security features provide wire-like security while still being easy to configure. One-click guest isolation provides secure, Internet-only access for visitors. The policy firewall (Identity Policy Manager) enables group-based, granular access policy control.
Despite its incredible power and feature set, the MR16 is the lowest profile 802.11n access point available – at just one inch thick, it blends seamlessly into any environment. In addition to looking great, the MR16 is earth friendly: we’ve eliminated excess packaging and documentation, and 90% of the access point materials are recyclable. A maximum power draw of only 10.5 watts and a cloud-hosted, multi-tenant controller mean that pollution, material utilization and your electric bill are kept to a minimum.
Contact Small Business Technology Solutions, Inc., your Meraki Authorized Reseller during October to obtain a special 30% discount on the MR16 and all other Meraki products. This offer is good on Meraki products only and expires on October 31, 2011.
Get 30% off on all Meraki Wireless Products purchased by Oct. 31st 2011!
October 5th, 2011
WiFi at Southern Wisconsin AirFEST
September 1st, 2011
Today everyone wants to be connected, all of the time. We have become accustom to having internet access everywhere we go to keep up on emails, projects, conduct business…well and to check facebook; lets be honest. In our normal day to day life this has become routine, but what about the places we go that are outside the norm? How about an airport on the edge of town with less than perfect cell coverage, hosting an airshow with 30,000 spectators just like you? What are you going to do to keep up with your friends on facebook, or check that important email while watching the show?
That is where Small Business Technology Solutions comes in, we will bring the internet to you even in an unlikely place. SBTS is setting up a temporary large scale Wi-Fi hotspot to cover most of the grounds at this year’s Southern Wisconsin AirFEST in Janesville WI. SBTS using leading edge equipment will cover the almost 3/4 mile airport tarmac with high speed, reliable, and free WiFi. This will allow the businesses in the chalets to use their iPad’s to work on that important email, and the thousands of spectators to upload that picture of their kids in front of the fighter jet with their smartphones. This will take some stress off of the now overloaded cell towers from the influx of thousands of users for the 3 day event. For SBTS this will just be another day “outside the office”, where they help local events and expos bring affordable WiFi coverage into areas that never had any before. If your event is interested in having WiFi temporally installed , or have a location that needs a permanent connection contact Small Business Technology Solutions at 262-671-4898 or visit them online at http://www.seeus4it.com/business-solutions/wifi/.
Do you know where your website is hosted?
July 7th, 2011
Most businesses cannot answer that question, which for something as important as your website we find a bit alarming. We would like to tell you a little bit how we treat our customers different…
We have invested heavily into our systems to make them as reliable and high performance as possible, yet affordable. Our web hosting system stretches across 3 geographically diverse datacenters, giving our customers assurance there website will stay up and have backup servers to take over just in case. Our primary Tier IV datacenter is located in Washington DC connected to one of the highest concentrations of fiber in the US supplying over 20 Gigabits per second to our systems and providing less than 30ms latency to the Midwest. The facility features multiple redundant power connections, 3 2-megawatt generators and 8 redundant UPS units. It features 3 on site 600-ton cooling towers fully meeting N+1 standards.
Backing up our world class DC datacenter is our secondary facility located in Dallas Texas. This Tier III N+1 facility pulls power from 3 separate electrical grids, 6 redundant UPS units and has 5 100-ton cooling towers. The center is connected to a network with over 60 Gigabits per second of bandwidth with less than 40ms of latency to the Midwest, providing our backup web servers with the speed and redundancy you need.
Finally backing up our DC and Dallas datacenters is our own private Janesville WI Tier II facility. This center has bandwidth capacity upwards of 30 megabits per second along with redundant UPS systems.
All of our servers are fully virtualized to protect against hardware failure, and unlike other companies who simply resell hosting we manage and have full control of our servers. What this means for you is no red tape, no waiting on hold for an 800-number to get a setting on your site changed. It also means if there is a problem we have direct remote access to the systems to fix the problem, an being virtualized allows us to recover from hardware failures almost instantly.
All of this starting at less than $10 a month. Basically we got your covered!
For more information about our hosting services including Email, SPAM filtration and offsite storage please visit our website at seeus4it.com.