Reliance on technology

November 26, 2009

During the past few weeks I have been moving my base of operations, and during this move I came to realize how reliant I am on technology.

Living in the Boston area, I enjoyed connectivity everywhere I went, but moving to rural Florida I came to realize how much I took for granted. My cell phone that “just worked” everywhere in Boston, was always searching for a signal in Florida. The same held true for my wireless card that I relied on for Internet access. I was stranded.

This made me think about the need to know what services are available in any given area if you are providing operational support. To setup a call center, or to allow users to work remotely requires that the necessary infrastructure services are available for this to work properly.

In the end, I had to switch cell phone providers, as well as the provider of my wireless card for Internet access. This was a long and painful process, that had I researched a little more, could have been avoided.

Chief Solution Provider

Justin Law is the Chief Solution Provider for <a href="https://outinfronttech.com/">Out in Front Technology Solutions</a>, which provides a turn key solution for small to medium business that outsources their IT implementation and support leveraging cost effective cloud based services for website, email, phone and internet while enabling the business to project a large company image. Previously, Justin was an Information Technology Specialist here at OpenView.