The global circumstances around the Covid-19 outbreak, which the World Health Organization is now calling a pandemic, continue to rapidly evolve. It is important that businesses be proactive and vigilant in order to minimize the risks. At Kerkhoff Technologies, we are regularly monitoring the situation and putting structures in place to continue to serve our…
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I know that, like me, you’re getting inundated with emails from people you don’t normally hear about, as to what they are doing with Covid 19. To actually help you, I just wanted to share these free materials from LinkedIn on how to work remotely, considering culture, communication, tools etc. We’ve got no choice but…
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Here are some of the SaaS resources that have been useful to me and my companies over the years. Let me know (email, contact form, or LinkedIn) if you have suggestions to add to it, or just to let me know if any of these have been useful to you too! -wim Dan Martell Dan…
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As announced in a previous blog post, Richard and myself presented at the BC Tech Association several months ago. We shared our story on how we repurposed DevOps, software development, and system monitoring tools (like Grafana) to transform our business by visualizing the key drivers to our business model. In this blog post, I’ve shared…
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– Reprinted from July KTI Technology Bulletin – In April the Netherlands celebrated the coronation of King Willem-Alexander. People gathered around their computers for live video feed of the event – so many that Dutch internet service providers crashed leaving millions without access to the event. Luckily for ISP client, KlikSafe, and thanks to massive…
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I came across some interesting data from one of our cybersecurity partners (Knobe4). KnowBe4 reports every quarter on the top-clicked phishing emails. The results come from a combination of the simulated phishing emails used by our customers as well as from the millions of users that report suspicious emails to their IT department. I wanted…
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I have an email folder dedicated to various cybersecurity newsletters I’m subscribed to, and it’s over flowing Rather than zoom in on the details of a specific recent attack or compromise, I decided to share a couple high level updates to give you a taste for what’s going on out there. I barely have…
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So you’ve just hired an A player in a technical role – young, super “green,” and with all the potential in the world. You’ve developed and taken her through a tight onboarding program; a couple weeks of learning, training, and culture-infusion. She’s hooked and ready to start real work. Now what? Here are three things…
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The culture in many companies (not just technology) is to blame an employee for mistakes, not doing a good enough job, being sloppy, being slower than expected, etc. However this is kind of culture is hugely demotivating to anyone to improve, and often comes across as a personal character attack. I’ve created a video on…
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I came across this recent blog post on OpenSource.com about the Top 10 Grafana Features. We too love Grafana of course (blog post). it’s amazing that for a project that’s under 7 years old already has over a 1/2 million installations! Here are the top features of Grafana that we use ourselves, or help our…
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