Hensley Elam Blog

The HEA and Cisco team are at Thursday Night Live behind the Lexington History Museum on Short Street tonight. We're loaded with IP Video, IP Telephony, Digital Signage and Video Conferencing solutions for you to look at while you're in the area! Get DOWN TOWN!!

I think that some days people would not believe the numbers that are related to SPAM and Viruses if we were to tell them. Our Barracuda Service that we use on our own and our clients hosted email has stopped nearly 156 million spams in it's service lifetime. That is an INSANE amount of nuisance emails. To be more specific, yesterday the device stopped 106,000 spam email and 768 viruses that were attached to email. If you aren't a believer, you will be.

Last week on my way to Disney World on vacation I was able to catch up on some of my "geek reading". The June/July edition of the Harvard Business Review had some things to say about Cloud Computing and the data now on hand coming out about the real costs of Cloud Computing. It might not be the "real cost saver" that everyone projected..
http://hbr.org/2010/06/what-were-watching-in-cloud-computing/ar/1