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What December’s AWS Outage Means for Cloud Computing’s Future
In the cloud computing market, AWS receives a lot of media coverage. But not always the coverage they want. On December 7, AWS clients lost access to their services. Amazon said the root cause was “an impairment of several network devices,” which could mean almost anything. What it doesn’t mean is that new clients and …
Read onEmbracing Discomfort: What Makes Regroove Different as Canadian Cloud Consultants
“I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.” Michael Phelps I don’t like change, but who does? Change can be uncomfortable. Change forces you out of your comfort zone, which we avoid during our day-to-day work. But regardless of how uncomfortable it …
Read onWhy clients love working with Regroove, and you will too (probably)
“You will love working with us.” ?????????? Every company says this, but can it always be true? The truth is you probably don’t love most of the companies you work with; you tolerate them. We cultivate relationships with our customers to not only provide value but develop working relationships that we all love. Earlier this …
Read onRegroove – Reducing Emissions in Victoria, BC
How We’re Partnering to do More Are you working on projects that make you feel a little more optimistic at the end of the day? We certainly are and recently we worked with a local company committed to helping our environment with reducing carbon – this is a topic that gets all of us at …
Read onHow to extract and clean Microsoft Stream transcriptions for content re-use
This video demonstrates how to extract the transcribed text (transcriptions) from your Microsoft Stream videos so that you can then clean it up for re-use elsewhere, say on blogs, in documents, video descriptions, etc. There are a few steps to this Stream Video Transcription Export process: Capture your Stream video and ensure transcription is enabled …
Read onDudes (in IT). Be Cool. Don’t be an Asshole.
Good afternoon friends and peers. I’m pissed off. Normally I schedule these videos with my video accountability coach Chris … but today I’m going off script because if I don’t share this now, I’m going to lose it. (Sorry Chris ? … Ps. Chris is amazing – you should work with him and his team …
Read onGood Morning 2021 – The Robots are coming…
Good Morning 2021, Not sure how many folks noticed but yesterday Tesla had their “AI Day”. And while the event was mostly a recruiting exercise for new talent, they also introduced their plans for a “Tesla Bot” (a ‘friendly’ prototype we might see next year to eliminate dangerous, repetitive and boring tasks – one that …
Read onMusic Bingo – CountrifiedUK and Rockstar Bingo chat
Music Bingo is becoming a big deal, for me… ? Typically I use this space to talk about tech, the cloud, workplace culture and doing all that I can to help others embrace change. But today I thought I’d share a podcast I was recently on as it is very near and dear to my …
Read onHelp. I’m the hulk on my webcam!?
Put this one in the well, that was weird pile… Sean WHAT I have 2 Avermedia Live Streamer CAM 313 Webcams. Cheap and worked pretty great for 6 months. One I use at home, one at the office, both connecting to the same laptop (Microsoft Surface Laptop) via the Surface Dock. I just sit down …
Read onSolution for “The document you are trying to load requires Adobe Reader 8 or higher”
WHAT This comes up a lot lately, particularly as more and more folks switch to browser based email clients (like Gmail and Outlook on the Web). When you received a fancy PDF (often from the Canadian Government for us … blurgh), if you simply click to open it, your ‘default’ client for PDF might be …
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