For Love, Not For Spite, Fear, Or Hate

  • Post author: [Tom Jelneck](/content/author/tom-jelneck/ "Posts by Tom Jelneck"/index.html)
  • Post published: February 18, 2025
  • Post category: Business / Tech Strategy

Many times in the IT department, we feel that our warnings are viewed as fear mongering or desperation for a sale of services. But that's not what drives us in our daily IT fight. What really…

IT Lessons Learned : Meet Sal and The Sticky Situation Wallpaper Paste Company

  • Post author: [Tom Jelneck](/content/author/tom-jelneck/ "Posts by Tom Jelneck"/index.html)
  • Post published: October 23, 2024
  • Post category: Business / Tech Talk

Sal is a doer. A real mover and shaker. He spent years learning and honing his craft as a wallpaper glue adhesive guru. He knows the ins, the outs, and the top secret tricks to make…

Mitch and the Messy Multiverse of Software

  • Post author: [Tom Jelneck](/content/author/tom-jelneck/ "Posts by Tom Jelneck"/index.html)
  • Post published: August 29, 2024
  • Post category: Business / Data & Recovery

Mitch is a seasoned IT professional. He’s been around the block, so much so that he remembers vividly the nightmare that Windows ME was. He’s seen operating systems come and go, he’s seen hardware rapidly change…

Hybrid Harvey & The Horrific Hacker

The alarm clock screamed to life and it was WAY too early. Harvey reached across the night stand, fumbled to find the snooze button and realized he got to sleep in for at least another hour.…

Like The Ceiling Can’t Hold Us

  • Post author: [Tom Jelneck](/content/author/tom-jelneck/ "Posts by Tom Jelneck"/index.html)
  • Post published: August 4, 2024
  • Post category: Business / Tech Talk

The big day was finally here. The contractors were putting the finishing touches on the shiny new office space. A little touch up here, a little trim work there, the newly designed space was everything that…

Taming The Wild Wild West

  • Post author: [Tom Jelneck](/content/author/tom-jelneck/ "Posts by Tom Jelneck"/index.html)
  • Post published: July 11, 2024
  • Post category: Business / Municipalities

“It's like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules.” Steven Wright The rules are on their way… From ransomware, to malware, web application hacking, insider privilege and date misuse, to target infusions there are no…

Meet Mike, The Man In The Middle.

  • Post author: [Tom Jelneck](/content/author/tom-jelneck/ "Posts by Tom Jelneck"/index.html)
  • Post published: June 18, 2024
  • Post category: Business / Municipalities

Being the middle child stinks. You get hand me downs, you get less attention, you get less of everything, you sometimes get the shaft. Meet Mike. Mike is a middle child. From day one, little Mikey…

Water, Water, Everywhere… But Not A Drop To Drink

  • Post author: [Tom Jelneck](/content/author/tom-jelneck/ "Posts by Tom Jelneck"/index.html)
  • Post published: May 28, 2024
  • Post category: Business / Municipalities

Mike hit the snooze button one last time. “Ooof, is it already 4am?” he asked himself. Dragging his bones out of his warm bed, he hit the shower, guzzled some freshly brewed coffee and made his way to…

A Decade Of Dedication

  • Post author: [Tom Jelneck](/content/author/tom-jelneck/ "Posts by Tom Jelneck"/index.html)
  • Post published: April 15, 2024
  • Post category: Business

This past weekend, ASSI turned 10! That’s 10 years of spam fighting, preventative server maintenance, locking down networks, monitoring networks all over Central Florida, serving municipalities with expert IT insight, keeping auto dealerships and their tech…

The Ole’ Switcharoo

  • Post author: [Tom Jelneck](/content/author/tom-jelneck/ "Posts by Tom Jelneck"/index.html)
  • Post published: March 30, 2024
  • Post category: Business

Speedy Sam sped through his morning routine. Tossing back a big ole’ bowl of sugar fortified sugar snaps cereal and guzzling a 22 ounce black coffee, he needed to get to the office… and.. Fast.