Shore Networx

02/23/2017

Always beware of free public WiFi hotspots!!! Message me to find out more on how to protect yourself from "Rogue WiFi Hotspots"

02/23/2017

Off to a days work!!

02/23/2017

February 07, 2017

Norwell, MA - aNetworks, Inc., the Massachusetts based IT Managed Services Provider, has announced its acquisition of AKA Computer Solutions, a local IT Support Company headquartered in Abington, MA.
After several months of collaboration between the two companies, aNetworks has completed an acquisition that will bring the two companies together. The acquisition provides AKA clients a technology solutions company that delivers a high level of service through combined resources, experience, and access to a wider array of technological advancements. Serving small to enterprise-level businesses across various vertical industries, the company will continue to maintain its offices in Norwell, MA, and will grow to about 20 full time employees.

aNetworks engineers hold top-notch certifications from industry leading manufacturers, including Cisco Systems, Microsoft, and VMware, along with technology specializations such as cloud computing, business continuity, security, and mobile IT solutions. Using comprehensive remote monitoring and management tools, aNetworks focuses on providing proactive IT solutions and quick problem resolution for over two thousand endpoints spread across a diverse customer base. Through this acquisition, aNetworks will offer an increased level of service, including proactive IT solutions that improve the reliability of systems and add efficiencies to AKA clients business processes.

Crucial operational components will remain the same throughout the acquisition and customers will continue to work with the firm as they have in the past. There will be no changes in current personnel and additional hiring is anticipated. The new company is managed by CEO, William H. Minahan, Jr., and President, Robert C. Connella.

Headquartered in Norwell, MA, aNetworks was founded in 1997 as an IT services company. It has grown to include expert Managed Services, Business Continuity and Cloud based solution design and implementation, as well as a vast portfolio of integration and support services.

AKA Computer Solutions was founded in 1999 by Joseph J. Keegan. The primary focus of AKA Computer Solutions has always been pride in servicing customers, combined with the ability to communicate in clear, concise and simple terms, regardless of a clients computer knowledge. We are pleased to be expanding our technology offerings to you with the synergy that has developed between aNetworks and AKA Computer.

To learn more about aNetworks, Inc. and the services and solutions provided please visit:

www.anetworks.com

10/13/2016

Making custom category 6 Ethernet cables

09/18/2016

Custom made, any length you need, category 6 Ethernet and cross-over cables

09/18/2016

CISCO! the only way to network

09/18/2016

09/18/2016

An update on my custom server rack! The four blades are in place and fully functional!

05/11/2016

DATA BACKUPS ARE IMPORTANT!

Your data is valuable. It will cost you time and effort re-create it, and that costs money or at least personal grief and tears; sometimes it can't even be re-created, e.g., if it is the results of some experiments. Since it is an investment, you should protect it and take steps to avoid losing it.
There are basically four reasons why you might lose data: hardware failures, software bugs, human action, or natural disasters. Although modern hardware tends to be quite reliable, it can still break seemingly spontaneously. The most critical piece of hardware for storing data is the hard disk, which relies on tiny magnetic fields remaining intact in a world filled with electromagnetic noise. Modern software doesn't even tend to be reliable; a rock solid program is an exception, not a rule. Humans are quite unreliable, they will either make a mistake, or they will be malicious and destroy data on purpose. Nature might not be evil, but it can wreak havoc even when being good. All in all, it is a small miracle that anything works at all.
Backups are a way to protect the investment in data. By having several copies of the data, it does not matter as much if one is destroyed (the cost is only that of the restoration of the lost data from the backup).
It is important to do backups properly. Like everything else that is related to the physical world, backups will fail sooner or later. Part of doing backups well is to make sure they work; you don't want to notice that your backups didn't work. Adding insult to injury, you might have a bad crash just as you're making the backup; if you have only one backup medium, it might destroyed as well, leaving you with the smoking ashes of hard work. Or you might notice, when trying to restore, that you forgot to back up something important, like the user database on a 15000 user site. Best of all, all your backups might be working perfectly, but the last known tape drive reading the kind of tapes you used was the one that now has a bucketful of water in it.
When it comes to backups, paranoia is in the job description.