In this three part blog series, John Appleby sits down with Nick Miletich, CTO at Managecore, to discuss how building a next generation managed service firm had to include automation at the helm.
My son, currently nine years old, is an active Cub Scout and we’re coming up on one of the most popular Cub Scout yearly events, the Pinewood Derby. For anyone not familiar with the Pinewood Derby, it is a competition where the scouts are given a small block of wood along with four little plastic wheels and are given the opportunity to design a car that will be raced against other scouts.
It only feels like yesterday that I was writing about the new features in Avantra 23.0, but today I’m pleased to announce that Avantra 23.1, our first feature update of Avantra 23, is ready for download. We’ve been working on a number of different areas that I’ll try to summarize here, but I apologize for the length of this post! For those who want a complete list of changes, check out our public release notes.
"How do we keep our data secure?" is the question nearly every organization is asking these days. The last spot any organization wants to be in is that of a security breach. Stephane Nappo, an industry known Chief Security officer, is often heard saying "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and a few minutes of cyber-incident to ruin it". And here he's just referencing the fall out of a business's image from a breach and not even touching on the mass harm that can be done with stolen data in the wrong hands.
Back in the day, before I was a father, before I was a husband, back when I was more of an adrenaline ‘junkie’, one of my ongoing adventures was skydiving. I wouldn’t necessarily call it a hobby as I never followed through with a certification, but I took my fair share of jumps. When I first started I would go with either a ‘static line’, where a cord hanging from the plane would pull my chute, or go on what is called ‘tandem’.
Back in my mid to late 20s, my most prized possession was my Yamaha R1 motorcycle. Living and working in the city of Milwaukee meant I didn’t need to worry about finding parking, gas was cheap, and it was fast, one of the fastest sport bikes on the market at the time. But with that speed and power comes great responsibility, and I took that responsibility seriously. If I was going to go out and meet friends, I promised myself, not one sip of alcohol.
SAP system refresh automation is extremely powerful when leveraged with care; system refreshes are complex and challenging processes to manage. System refreshes can be fraught with risk for organizations with critical data due to their level of complexity. Mitigating this risk comes down to knowing the benefits of automation and how the processes work. This article will help you: To try out Avantra's SAP automation features, sign up for a free trial.
Recently I joined a team to run a ‘Ragnar’. A ‘Ragnar’ is a running race where you and an additional seven teammates run a course that typically lasts around 24 hours non stop. Our team joined over 300 other teams running this Ragnar trail course in the middle of the woods in northern Wisconsin. This course consisted of three loops, a 3 mile loop, a six mile loop and a seven mile loop.
