Making Good Decisions vs. Making Decisions Good
As the business has grown certain things have gotten increasingly complicated. From the outside, there’s a nice sheen as we share information about awards, acquisitions, growth achievements, and magazine articles. We’re proud of these things, but our desire is to establish a healthy business to the core, not just a polished exterior. With any business […]
Technology and Our Humanity
About a year ago, my wife and I moved to Arvada, which is amazing, but it increased my commute time significantly. And so I’ve been redeeming that drive time by listening to audiobooks (Candice Millard’s historical narratives about presidents Roosevelt and Garfield deserve their own post…) and podcasts, with Radiolab and Invisibilia being my current […]
Safe Surfing on Public WiFi
Here at Greystone, we support a very wide client base, ranging across all sorts of industries: construction, professional services, non-profits, education, banking, accounting and C.P.A. firms, software and technology, oil/gas and energy, municipalities, and even a golf course. And on and on it goes. But there’s one thing that we all share in common these […]
Fringe Fixes – The Case of the Slow Application
As we care for and maintain our clients’ technology, we regularly encounter situations and solutions that are a wee bit… strange. “Fringe Fixes” will occasionally feature some of these scenarios. We recently took over IT management of a specialty insurance company, and their chief complaint was an intermittently slow and lagging line of business application […]
Tesla gives their competitors the middle finger… and their patents
Today Elon Musk and electric-car manufacturer Tesla Motors announced that they will allow anyone to use their patented technology in “good faith” without risking patent infringement litigation. I love this move for several reasons beyond the obvious fact that it makes me happy it when big companies cause big disruptions by discarding dumb rules. Musk understands there is […]
Yammer – A Social Media Tool for Business!
Here at Greystone, we’ve recently begun using a new tool for collaboration and communication. Aly DeWills-Marcano, our Service Experience Manager, was instrumental in rolling it out and she describes some of that process below: Since our mission at Greystone is to improve the business technology experience for our partners, we’re always researching and working to […]
7 Cool Google Search String Tricks
By Gary Aronhalt, Client Relationship Manager Raise your hand if you remember the Internet BEFORE Google? Remember AltaVista and Web Crawler? What about Ask Jeeves? Remember the days you had to use multiple search engines and then basically compare the results against one another? And then, Google. Google saved us from ham-handed searches and hair-pulling […]
The Ongoing Battle against Ignorance, Part II
The Ongoing Battle against Ignorance, Part II or How I Learned to Stop Fearing and Love Backups by Travis Ogle, Service Coordinator I have always considered myself a (at least fairly) well-informed person. That all changed when I began working here at Greystone. I know now that I am one of the cohorts of the […]
Business lessons from my Super Bowl trip (why I can’t hate Seattle fans even though I want to)
As I’m on my flight back from Super Bowl XLVIII in New York and processing the ugly Broncos loss, I can’t help but take a moment to call out a few key business lessons that can be taken away from this event. Yes, this is likely just because I need some place, any place, to […]
DNS vs. DHCP
By Lohr Childs, Service Coordinator I am part of a group within Greystone that has low basis/knowledge of technology and every month we learn more about what the medium we are working in does, and how it works, and what causes the errors we see. As someone who sees a lot of errors go past, […]
