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  • Managing IT atop Mount Washington

    Posted March 23, 2009 - 10:35 am

    Mount Washington is located at the convergence of three main storm tracks. Consequently, it boasts a near constant combination of severe cold, fog and low visibility, loads of snow, rain and rime ice (frozen fog), and extraordinarily high winds. It is in this most inhospitable of environments that Steven Welsh hangs his IT hat.

  • Extreme IT: Hurricanes, high winds and heavy seas

    Posted October 13, 2008 - 2:00 pm

    When Lance Gibson, the offshore infrastructure communications supervisor for Chevron's oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico, talks about a storm knocking out his systems, he doesn't mean the infamous worm.

  • Extreme IT: Accessing technology in unique circumstances

    Posted December 30, 2007 - 8:29 pm

    We're all accustomed to daily Internet use -- but what happens if you find yourself in extreme circumstances? Here are some examples and ways to get connected.
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