Archive for April, 2010

Our new digs in the Mission

After a week of moving in and getting settled, we are finally starting to feel at home in our new office at 660 Alabama in San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood. With floor-to-ceiling windows and an airy wide-open space, it’s a perfect set up for us. We’ve shared a few photos so you can get an inside look.

Enjoy, and happy Friday, everyone!

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– Posted by Marie Williams

Miles the Piñata Goes Out With a Bang

In celebration of our upcoming office move, Meraki engineers Dan and Brian and sales development rep Mary created a piñata in the form of our beloved mascot, Miles. Last Friday, we threw a fiesta to say goodbye to 99 Rhode Island and give Miles a good beating.
For those of you concerned that we demolished our own mascot, it’s supposed to be good luck. In Mexico, piñatas are believed to have originated among the Aztecs, Mayans, and other native peoples of Mexico, who made clay pots in the shape of their gods. The pots were meant to be broken forcefully with poles and sticks, so the contents spilled to signify abundance or favors from the gods.
In fact, Miles the piñata was so well-constructed – true to Meraki standard of course – that he broke bats, warped a metal rod and gave our user experience and design guru, JT, a nasty arm injury after he elbow dropped Miles (check it out at the end of the video).
Hope you enjoy the video, and stay tuned next week for photos of our new office!

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In celebration of our upcoming office move, Meraki engineers Dan and Brian and one of our sales development reps, Mary, created a piñata in the form of our beloved mascot, Miles. Last Friday, we threw a fiesta to say goodbye to 99 Rhode Island and give Miles a good beating.

For those of you concerned that we demolished our own mascot, it’s supposed to be good luck. In Mexico, piñatas are believed to have originated among the Aztecs, Mayans, and other native peoples of Mexico, who made clay pots in the shape of their gods. The pots were meant to be broken forcefully with poles and sticks, so the contents spilled to signify abundance or favors from the gods.

In fact, Miles the piñata was so well-constructed – true to Meraki standard of course – that he broke bats, warped a metal rod and gave our user experience and design guru, JT, a nasty arm injury after he elbow dropped Miles (check it out at the end of the video).

Hope you enjoy the video, and stay tuned next week for photos of our new office!

Free Tools for IT Pros

Software that makes your life easier is pretty sweet. It’s even better if it’s free.

We were pleasantly surprised to find our WiFi Stumbler mentioned over the weekend on ILoveFreeSoftware.com – a nifty site that catalogs some of the best free software and web tools in a quick-to-read format.

The site got us thinking about the free software we use. Solar Winds offers a great FTP client. PuTTy is the perfect SSH client and IfranView is handy for fast image editing on PCs.

ILoveFreeSoftware has featured other free tools that we think look really useful too:

Fiddler’s network traffic logger
Draw Anywhere’s online diagramming tool (a Visio replacement)
Jasper Reports, which allows you to easily visualize the trends in your data

Let us know if you find these tools useful.

– Posted by Joey Baker