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Backing up your Android’s mail: An important chore

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:31:05 +0000

Personal and professional emails that you send and receive from associates, friends, and family buzz between your Android device and the Google servers with ease, and you rarely, if ever, think about what would happen, if someday, that relation ship were to fail.

Google Green?

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:15:47 +0000

Google is many things… an advertising company, an ISP, email provider, a cloud pioneer and even a mobile phone maker (almost), but one thing it is not is an energy waster. To prove that, they recently unveiled Google Green – The Big Picture, a website that highlights the many ways that Google uses its brain [...]

In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:13:57 +0000

Few outsiders get an opportunity to pierce the guarded armor of Google known as simply “The Plex” to most. However, Steven Levy is one of the few non-Googlers who has been granted what seems to be unprecedented access to The Plex and many of those who call it home, including the two that started it all: Co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. From dorm room [...]

Google Secrets Exposed: A Data Center Tour

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:35:58 +0000

Take a peek inside a Google data center to see how the big boys do it (personal transport device included).

Google Apps and cPanel 11/WHM 11

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:17:44 +0000

After several weeks of trial and error, Wright PC Consulting has finally made a transition to Google Apps for mail and other services. This transition has no direct affect on current or future clients. As a Google Market Place vendor, we have helped others smoothly migrate to the Google Apps platform before. However, while the [...]

30GB Zune Ends the Party Early

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:38:35 +0000

Owners of the Software giant Microsoft's 30 Gig Zune MP3 player all over the world experienced the unexplained reboot and freeze.

There’s Data in them Walls!

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:35:10 +0000

You don’t have to be involved in super secret espionage to value the ability to hide your data from prying eyes. Heck, the folks at Instructables.com have been showing us how to hide money in all sorts of geeky places to keep the bad guys from find it; so why not data? This interesting, if [...]

Finding a Local Data Center

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:19:12 +0000

Anyone who has tried to find a local data center for collocation, hosting or other services knows that it is not always easy. An easy to use and navigate website, datacentermap.com makes that search easier. And, because users can update their database, new centers can easily be added as they go live. Here are the [...]

Google: Ingeniously Creative or Just Nuts?

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:32:50 +0000

This week technology followers including Slashdot and Data Center Knowledge have been reporting yet another move by the search, SaaS, storage and email giant Google that may have many wondering whether the air inside Googleplex is too thin or just filled with a special creativity element. Google has reportedly filled a patent application for the [...]

HostDime Power Failure Explanation

Wright PC Consulting, LLC — Mon, 26 May 2008 21:19:38 +0000

Early in the morning on Friday, May 23, 2008 power was lost at the HostDime data center that houses Wright PC Consulting, LLC's leased server. While, that is not that big of a deal, there are both UPS and a Generator for such occasions, what followed is. Here is what happened and what is being done to prevent such future failures.