Archives for November 2022

We’ve made it to the middle of the week! Here’s to an almost complete to-do list for the week and day dreaming of what adventures the weekend holds!

In This Issue: Intentional Mornings | CAT6A Ethernet Patch Cable | Wired vs Wireless Networking in Manufacturing | News to Start Your Day

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The CK Daily – Intentional Mornings

Happy Wednesday!

This week my husband and I have taken on the challenge of waking up earlier to spend time together in the mornings and also to take our pups on longer walks before we get started with our day. With the time change, this has been more of a challenge than we thought (because who doesn’t love that extra hour of sleep) but has been so fruitful.

We’ve started reading together, sitting at our table, and eating together, and have been able to kick off our morning in more intentional ways rather than just rolling out of bed, getting dressed, and heading to work.

What does your morning routine look like? How are you more intentional with your mornings?

Have a great rest of the week!

Ashley

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Product Spotlights & Updates

We just saved you a ton of time and made managing your network cabling a whole lot easier! Introducing our EASYboot ethernet patch cables. These snagless Cat6a patch cords have skinnier cable boots to make it easier to connect and disconnect the cable, as well as to prevent the cable from catching when pulled through tight spaces. Built to last, our high-quality Ethernet cables are pure copper for maximum throughput and reliability. Individually bagged and labeled in retail packaging, these Cat6 cables are easy to store and the length and type is easily identifiable.

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Learning Center Article – Wired vs. Wireless Networking in Manufacturing

Modern manufacturing is amazing. With the use of automation tools, big data, and many other facets of the latest in technology, production capacity and efficiency constantly reach new highs.

Of course, using all of those resources requires a significant investment in networking. Manufacturing networks are often mission-critical these days, so it’s important to understand networking options and which ones are the best in manufacturing settings.

In general, you can choose between wired and wireless connectivity, and a direct comparison between the two reveals that one of these choices is better.

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Today’s News to Start Your Day:

• Track the U.S. Senate Election results here.
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever has already raced past $45 million in advance U.S. box office ticket sales, and there are several days to go before the highly anticipated Marvel Studios sequel officially opens in roughly 4,300 cinemas domestically.
• The Geico mascot that appears in the company’s TV advertisements is harder to find these days as the big auto insurer has had to sharply cut its $2 billion annual ad budget amid tough times in the industry.
• Disney fell short of expectations for profit and key revenue segments during the fiscal fourth quarter. They have warned strong streaming growth for its Disney+ platform may taper going forward. Shares of the company fell roughly 8% in after-hours trading.

It’s the perfect day to whip up a frothy, hot cup of cappuccino for your morning meetings to celebrate National Cappuccino Day! Where’s your favorite place to get your favorite cappuccino?

In This Issue: Get out and vote! | Kendall Howard 15U Rack | The Right Ethernet for the Right Network | News to Start Your Day

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The CK Daily – Get out and vote!

Good morning and Happy Tuesday! I hope everyone’s having a great start to the week! As I’m sure you’re well aware, today is a big day as it’s Election Day! I voted this morning and was pretty shocked at how long the lines were. Glad that people are getting out and exercising their right to vote! We are blessed to have the opportunity to vote and I highly encourage everyone to get out there and do it!

In other news, we’re having a CK Thanksgiving this Friday which I’m very much looking forward to! It’s been a great year here at CK and we have lots to be thankful for! Glad we’re taking some time to get together and reflect on all of our blessings!

Hope everyone has a fantastic week!

Rebecca

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Product Spotlights & Updates

This Kendall Howard 15U Open Frame Wall Rack is slightly larger than its 8U counterpart and is designed to give you additional space for all of your equipment. The same open frame concept allows quick and easy access to both sides of your units and provides optimal airflow. The unit comes with 25 rack screws and can be quickly assembled or taken down. If you have a little more verticle room, this unit is ideal for closet installations and areas where floorspace is at a premium.

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Learning Center Article – The Right Ethernet for the Right Network

An efficient Ethernet cable management plan, especially in high-density and challenging network environments, increases the versatility of network maintenance and operation. It also contributes to the system’s uptime and lowers operation costs, which makes your life a whole lot easier! The demand for high-density networks can be attributed to the following:

• The need for energy efficiency through minimized cable impact on the flow of air
• Merging of servers, storage, and virtualization

The results are more cables per rack and highly used cable racks. This could result in operators being confused by the many cables, which causes increased human errors.

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Today’s News to Start Your Day:

• Shares of Facebook owner Meta rose Monday following a Wall Street Journal report over the weekend saying the company could start mass layoffs as soon as Wednesday. The layoffs could impact thousands of employees.
• Anheuser-Busch is the first Fortune 500 company to purchase a Major League Pickleball team.
• Subtropical storm Nicole is expected to make landfall early Thursday morning above West Palm Beach.
• A total lunar eclipse is happening Tuesday, and it might be a good time to catch a peek, because the next one isn’t for three years. The initial phase of the eclipse begins at 3:02 a.m. ET, according to NASA. The partial eclipse then begins at 4:09 a.m. ET, when to the naked eye, it looks like a bite is being taken out of the moon. The lunar disk enters totality at 5:17 a.m. ET and will last for about an hour and a half.

Happy Monday! We hope you had a wonderful weekend and enjoyed time with family and friends. If you’re a UGA fan or an LSU fan – it was a good weekend for you!

In This Issue: Soaking up the extra hour! | CK 3-in-1 Charging Cable | What are the advantages of OM5 Fiber? | News to Start Your Day

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The CK Daily – Soaking up the extra hour!

Happy Monday!

Goodbye daylight saving and hello “extra” hour of sleep! It’s one of my favorite times of the year, although I will miss some of the sunlight. This weekend we didn’t really do anything exciting or notable, we put together some cube storage and repotted some basil plants, and that was about it. There’s beauty in having an uneventful weekend. Often times those are my favorite types of weekends, where I can catch up on chores, read a good book, or catch up on a couple of shows. And/or on Disney plus has been a delightful favorite of mine lately. Its tone and pace is a little different than the recent Star Wars series (i.e. The Mandalorian and Obi-Wan Kenobi); if you are a fan of Star Wars it’s definitely worth a watch. Have you watched any good TV lately? Any Sci-Fi recommendations?

Also, a friendly reminder that tomorrow’s Election Day and if you haven’t voted yet, I encourage you to do so. It’s something I’ve taken for granted in the past, but as I get older I value and see the importance of voting.

I hope you have a great week and crush all your tasks and goals!

Cris

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Product Spotlights & Updates

Tired of looking for the right charging cable for your devices or tired of packing 3 different types of cables when traveling? Well, look no further! This 3-in-1 charging cable eliminates the need of carrying separate USB-C, Micro-USB, and Lightning cables.

This convenient and compact charging cable is a lifesaver for all your devices. Use it in your car, use it while you’re on your couch, connect it to your laptop and charge your phone, there are so many different possibilities! Did your friend Billy forget his charging cable and he’s the only friend you have that has to use a Micro-USB charging cable? Well with this cable, you got him covered! The CK Red is sure to stand out among all your boring old standard charging cables and the nylon braiding not only feels cool, but also helps the cable from being tangled.

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Learning Center Article – What are the advantages of OM5 Fiber?

Information technology has headed in one obvious direction for the past several decades. More people come online every year, and the constant demand is for more speed. As these systems grow, infrastructure will continue to be put under greater strain in order to keep up with the trend.

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Today’s News to Start Your Day:

• Sweetgreen is launching its take on the Rice Krispies Treat, its first dessert since 2014.
• Blood grown in a laboratory has been transfused into humans for the first time in a landmark clinical trial. Two patients in the U.K. have so far received tiny doses of the lab-grown blood as part of a wider trial to see how it behaves inside the body.
• The Powerball jackpot keeps growing. After no one matched the winning six numbers drawn for Saturday’s $1.6 billion jackpot, the grand prize rolled over to the next drawing on Monday and ballooned to a record $1.9 billion, with a cash payout option of $929.1 million.
• Apple is working to simplify how users interact with Siri. The company has reportedly spent the past few months training the digital assistant to respond to “Siri” instead of “Hey Siri.” On the surface, that’s a simple change, but one that Gurman says involves a “significant amount of AI training and underlying engineering work.” The reason for that is that a two-word trigger phrase like “Hey Siri” increases the likelihood of the software responding to a request.

To wrap up this sugar-filled week, today is the perfect day – National Candy Day! Now that you’ve had your sugar fix and time to evaluate all the Halloween candy – which is your favorite? Ours is M&M’s! 😉

In This Issue: The most wonderful time of the year is here! | Yealink EHS36 Wireless Headset Adapter | Understanding the basics of network switches | News to Start Your Day

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The CK Daily – The most wonderful time of the year is here!

Happy Friday, folks! So if you’ve been out to any stores in the last week or so, you probably noticed Christmas decorations popping up. This triggered an interesting conversation between coworkers discussing when they put up Christmas decorations. Some wait until after Thanksgiving, so they can enjoy their turkey before the Christmas decorations go up! Others are ready to put their decorations up now!

My family puts out our decorations the week of Thanksgiving. My kids love helping put the outdoor stuff up way more than the indoor stuff! It’s always a lot of fun!

So this brings me to my question: is it too early to put up Christmas decorations? I’d love to hear your perspective!

Chris

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Product Spotlights & Updates

The new advanced Yealink Headset Adapter EHS36 guarantees optimum efficiency in reception areas, call centers, and offices. It is approved for use with wireless models made by major manufacturers, including Jabra, Plantronics, and Sennheiser. With its ‘plug-and-play’ feature, it enables you to seamlessly answer and hang up calls remotely.

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Learning Center Article – Understanding the Basics of Network Switches

Networking is a big topic. In fact, it’s too big for a single conversation. In order to distill such a massive concept into manageable bites, it’s best to look at one component of a network at a time. This time around, that bite is network switches. They come in many shapes and sizes, but you can navigate through the field of options pretty easily when you break switch features into three categories.

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Today’s News to Start Your Day:

• Starbucks reported quarterly earnings and revenue that topped analysts’ estimates, fueled by U.S. customers spending more on iced coffee drinks and Pumpkin Spice Lattes.
• Amazon is pausing hiring for roles in its corporate workforce. The company had already announced last month it would freeze hiring for corporate roles in its retail business, but the latest update affects its other businesses.
• An email to Twitter employees announced that they will be laying off staff members. In the email, Twitter said it would notify staffers by email about their employment.
• Facebook’s parent company Meta is now the worst performer in the S&P 500 this year.

Happy Thursday! The countdown to Thanksgiving is on with 21 days until we are sitting around a table feasting. In preparation for your Thanksgiving festivities, what’s your favorite side to prepare and enjoy?

In This Issue: Being Thankful | Kendall Howard Desktop CPU Wall Mount Shelf | Best Way to Connect Multiple Switches | News to Start Your Day

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The CK Daily – Being Thankful

Happy Thursday!

It is amazing that at the stroke of midnight Monday night it switched from Halloween to Christmas everywhere. It started before then at a lot of places but now it is officially everywhere. I totally get it, but what about Thanksgiving? Haha!

So, we are in the month where we are all a bit more mindful of being thankful. Unfortunately for me, this is not something that I constantly do, but I know I should. It is so easy to let that slip our minds and take the things we have or the lives we have for granted. With it being a whole new month and the “month of being thankful,” before I get out of bed each morning, I am forcing myself to name one thing I am thankful for. This is just part of my goal for this month of shifting my perspective and being more intentional with my thoughts and outlook this month. I wrote down 11 things to remind myself of every day and have them sitting on my desk, so I constantly see them:

Be Thankful
Be Happy
Be Kind
Be Faithful
Be Gentle
Be Joyful
Be Peaceful
Be Disciplined
Be Generous
Be Focused
Be Positive

These are the attitudes and mindsets that I want to have each day and begin to intentionally ingrain into my actions, words, and thoughts. Seems like a good month to really start retooling some of my daily activities and habits around these, especially with the busyness of life and work here at the end of the year.

I hope everyone has an awesome rest of the week and weekend! Big football game this weekend for a lot of us in the South, especially in Georgia. So, with that said…Go Vols!

Jason

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Product Spotlights & Updates

Kendall Howard’s Desktop/Tower Wall Mount CPU Brackets are designed to get the computer off the floor and the desktop. The brackets make it easy to secure and mount any desktop PC to the wall or side of the desk. The included velcro strap secures the PC to the bracket.

Everyone needs a CPU bracket to protect their PC. Computers located on the floor are in continual danger of being jostled and kicked, not to mention the difficulty in accessing the drives, ports, and card readers. Desktop computers and PCs that sit on a desk take up valuable work space, look cluttered and unorganized and run the risk of being damaged by a soda or coffee spill. The Kendall Howard Desktop CPU Wall Mount Bracket protects the PC and creates a more functional, organized workspace.

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Learning Center Article – Best Way to Connect Multiple Switches

What is the purpose of connecting multiple switches? In most cases, the goal is to expand network access. When you connect switches, you get more ports that can be used, and that means more devices can utilize the network.

Depending on the configuration, connecting multiple switches can also increase the bandwidth of the network. This is important for any demanding network that is short on total bandwidth.

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Today’s News to Start Your Day:

• Nikolas Cruz, who murdered 17 students and staff with a semi-automatic rifle at a Florida high school, was formally sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday after listening to hours of testimonies from survivors and victims’ relatives.
• For the first time in MLB postseason history, there has been a combined no-hitter. Houston Astros’ Cristian Javier, Bryan Abreu, Rafael Montero, and Ryan Pressly combined to no-hit the Philadelphia Phillies in their 5-0 win in Game 4 of the World Series, tying the series at two.
• Toho, the Japanese studio that created Godzilla, will release a new film next year in Japan, its first since “Shin Godzilla” in 2016.
• Google recently announced a new feature in Gmail that lets you easily track packages for things you’ve ordered. Gmail will, in the coming weeks, provide a small green indicator in your inbox that shows when a package has shipped and when it’s expected to arrive.

Happy Wednesday! If there’s any way we can be praying for you this week, let us know. We hope the rest of your week proves to be fruitful!

In This Issue: Book Recommendations | Dell PowerEdge T710 Gold Series Tower Server | How to Repair Cut Fiber | News to Start Your Day

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The CK Daily – Book Reccomendations

Happy Wednesday! I hope everyone is having a great week and have recovered from the sugar high we kicked off the week with.

I’m on a mission to finish my book goal for the year, but need some book recommendations! I’m open to your suggestions. I find myself leaning toward historical fiction or any kind of mystery but also have enjoyed reading various self-help books.

I’m about to dive into Every Good Endeavor by Tim Keller but want to prepare for my next read. So, please send any and all recommendations!

Have a great rest of the week!

Ashley

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Product Spotlights & Updates

The Dell PowerEdge T710 servers were developed with purposeful design, energy-optimized technology, advanced virtualization capabilities, and simplified systems management. These servers provide awesome performance and are a perfect fit for enterprises, remote workgroups, and expanding businesses.

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Learning Center Article – How to Repair Cut Fiber

As we all know, fiber optic lines are complicated, powerful, and delicate. They provide incredibly powerful communication signals with high bandwidths and great reliability. But, because they are so delicate, they can be damaged.

When damage occurs, you can either repair it or replace it, and the former option is much cheaper. Here are the steps to repair a cut fiber cable.

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Today’s News to Start Your Day:

• Tiger Woods’ and Rory McIlroy’s new sports startup is drawing some big-name investors. TMRW Sports announced a new investment group that includes basketball great Stephen Curry, race car driver Lewis Hamilton, women’s soccer player Alex Morgan, pro football’s Tony Romo and Josh Allen, Justin Timberlake, and Serena Williams, in addition to several professional team sports owners.
• Mortgage rates dropped for the first time in more than two months, but demand continued to weaken. The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($647,200 or less) decreased to 7.06% from 7.16%. Mortgage applications to buy a home fell 1% for the week and were 41% lower year over year.
• Former Yext CEO Howard Lerman has spent over a year creating Roam, a virtual office interface that allows employees to communicate less formally and more efficiently. Roam functions like an office building in the cloud, and a beta version of the platform launched Wednesday morning.
• The Biden administration is providing over $13 billion in aid to help low- and moderate-income Americans lower their energy costs, including grants to pay electric bills as well other incentives to make energy-efficient upgrades to their homes.