Alternate Solutions

07/31/2018

Looking to make some extra cash?? Alternate Solutions is looking for small to medium size businesses that need IT services. We offer proactive management at a fixed cost! If you give us a qualified lead that we close we'll give you $200 cash!

Proactive management of your entire technology platform at a fixed cost. Many companies operate under what is known as a break-fix model when it comes to their technology support. Meaning updates or repairs are done only when a system goes down, not before. Managed Services proactively monitors all....

01/31/2017

It's been a while since I posted anything. We're still here. Getting busy again.

12/12/2015

Trial of the Cisco Meraki product stack. If you're not familiar with the product line this is Cisco Cloud based solutions. They've created an impressive single pane of glass web management experience. Super impressive the amount information packed into this product. Most impressive is how easy it is deploy. I was able with no training emulate our entire environment in under an hour. When they say plug and play they mean it.

06/14/2015

Sunday-Funday installing 32GB of RAM in an HP DL380p. Expanding the RAID5 configuration by 1TB and adding a hot standby drive. This server is getting prepped for a few additional "VM's (virtual machines).

06/05/2015

Today's project - configuration of a multi-site MPLS VPN network infrastructure using Cisco ASA Firewalls in conjunction with Avaya Ethernet Routing Switches.

Let Alternate Solutions Design Manage Configure and Install your next infrastructure project. We take pride in everything we do and own the project from concept to implementation and finally ongoing maintenance.

05/22/2015

A small redundant server installation in Baltimore Maryland. This data center is located in Under Armor's corporate world HQ. They seem to have a very relaxed culture.

02/02/2015

Tom Wheeler, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, is expected to propose reclassifying high-speed Internet as a telecommunications service.

10/13/2014

Forget iPhone wearable's. I'm fascinated by the potential of this technology.

http://nyti.ms/1CWiq7n

There is an emerging class of computers that adhere to the skin like temporary tattoos, or attach to the body like an old-fashioned Band-Aid.

10/06/2014

Preconfiguration and burn-in of Cisco 3650, 2960's and the fan-less 2960-C for a small campus environment

05/16/2014

Imagine controlling the lights of the spire on top of the new World Trade Center 1 building from your smartphone! I say its only a matter of time before it gets hacked - too easy.


http://www.wired.com/2014/04/one-wtc-lights/

The spire atop One World Trade Center contains more than 1,700 LEDs and a rotating beacon visible from as far as Connecticut.

12/09/2013

At the Telx Data Center 60 Hudson St installing an SBC server. Bring your $10 million Certificate of Insurance if you want to work in this center.