3/19/13
Today I went around to three different businesses and wrote a summery of each

Rocky mountain chocolate factory makes chocolate candies and ships them. They use technology in many different ways, they use the same virtual servers as Stone Age, The used to use paper fileing systems but now they have scanned in all there documents so that they can look up a name or order number and be able to see that document instantly. Like Stone Age Skype and VoIP phones are used for long distance communication. They have a program that allows them to see though all the security cams in any of their stores. They also have a monitoring system that allows them to see exactly how many of every kind of chocolate they sell and how much money they make off of that particular product. This works for all the stores they own, including the ones in Japan and the middle east. They use software to monitor how many sales they are making at all of their stores and allows them to predict up to 3 days in advance how much they have to produce with their machines. All of their machines are also controlled by their network. My favorite part of their technology was their ability to see into any of their stores.

Seccuro provides IT, security, telecommunications and limitless Tec support to all of their customers. They also use Virtual computers to supply all of the companies that use their services. They have their own server room, but create and supply and maintain servers for their customers as well. They maintenance computers as well. They service some banks and hospitals as well so they have to stick to a security system called HIPAA. The thing I thought was the most interesting was the fact that they maintained there telecommunications net work 99.99 percent of the time, when the standard is almost 15% less.

Durango space is a small company that works with startups to invest. They also have a service called messenger pigeon that allows people to put stickers on their things and then find them again though an app. Jim and I talked allot about careers and the direction technology was going. We talked about how everything is either getting very small or very large. For instance Google and Samsung are competing to create a watch that would allow consumers to have their smart phones on their wrists. On the other hand computers are now using vast numbers and trying to find trends and patterns in human nature. My favorite part was watching some videos about robots and some creations that MIT are working on.