Happy Wednesday! We’ve made it through half of the week and the weekend is on the horizon. We’re sending you full coffee pots to help keep you pushing through this week and hope you’re looking forward to a long weekend!
In This Issue: Big Life Celebrations | HP ML350 Generation 8 | Reasons to buy a Refurbished Server | News to Start Your Day
The CK Daily – Big Life Celebrations
Happy Wednesday!
I hope everyone is having a great week! This weekend was one for the books as we got to watch my younger brother walk across the big stage and graduate high school! We couldn’t have been more proud of him. We had his graduation on Friday and then gathered together with several family members and friends on Saturday to celebrate him. It was so sweet to see listen to all of the memories that people reflected on with him and to see the intentional gifts they brought to shower him with.
It was an exciting time for my parents as well, as it was their last of three to officially graduate! Come August they will officially earn the “empty nester” title. My mom said it best in that all she could say about how she was feeling is proud. Proud that we have all graduated and have great plans for what’s next, proud that we accomplished what we set our minds to (and still do), and proud that she got to be our biggest cheerleader through every up and down.
I often think back to when I graduated high school and even college and think about how I felt at that time. When I graduated high school, I was terrified but also ready for what was next. I had no clue what I wanted to do when I graduated high school and at that point had just picked a school to attend out of a recommendation to me. When I graduated college, I remember being hopeful but also so sad. Sad that the community I had spent the last 4 years building and growing in was going in all different directions in a blink of an eye. It’s such a strange thing to sit back and reflect on.
Do you remember your graduation day and the emotions that it brought? I’ve encouraged my younger brother to really grab on to those emotions and take them in because while it may not seem like it at the moment, you learn so much from those moments in your life.
Hope everyone has a great week!
Ashley
Product Spotlights & Updates
The ML350 G8 server is an up-gradable, performance-based, dual processor tower that delivers superior performance and expand-ability. The sixth iteration of the ML350 now has more memory capacity and hard drive compatibility than previous generations.
Learning Center Article – Reasons to buy a Refurbished Server
As your company’s IT manager, you are required to make many decisions when it comes to selecting which technology you will utilize to best fit the needs of your company. One of the decisions you will be faced with is selecting a server that fits your needs for both price and performance. When it comes to shopping for servers, the options and price ranges are nearly endless.
Today’s News to Start Your Day:
- Peloton unveiled a new marketing strategy designed to capture a new customer base. The company is introducing a new, tiered pricing structure for its digital app that includes a free membership option.
- Netflix said it began alerting customers that their password-sharing days were over. Members can transfer a profile of someone outside of their household so that the person can begin a membership they pay for on their own. Or they can pay an extra fee — $7.99 a month — per person.
- Alternative satellite internet company Astranis has its first spacecraft in orbit and says it’s working “perfectly.”
- Mortgage applications to purchase a home dropped 4% for the week and were 30% lower than the same week one year ago. Applications to refinance a home loan decreased 5% from the previous week and were 44% lower than the same week one year ago.