Tag Archive for: Networks

What a way to learn. I was with my colleagues Dave and Geoff, a couple of people from Microsoft, and a dozen or so customers at Glen Arbor Golf Course. We called it the Nicom IT Solutions/Microsoft “Golfinar”, a combination golf game and seminar.

We now have this huge computer network called the Internet and we usually think of it in terms of Web pages, but it has potential for a lot more than just providing online marketing material for us to look at. Organizations with offices across multiple locations can make use of high-speed Internet connections and replicated databases to transfer data from one place to the other, and keep one another up-to-date on what’s going on.

Your office has grown to 20 people. You have a server that holds your accounting system, proposals and other files that you all share. Your office administrator runs a backup every night and your nephew comes in on the weekend to make sure everything runs well. Life is good.