March, 2011
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Petite Lap Giraffe: Is That A Thing?
You may have seen the DirecTV commercials—“I am Epic Win” and “Opulence, I Has It” with the Russian guy in his gold-plated palace talking about how he loves saving money with DirecTV. In these spots, as a part of the scenery, you’ll see a tiny little mutant-looking giraffe thingy hanging around like a housepet. At [...]
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Why Do People Keep Their Money In The Bank?
Because the bank has a better safe. Is your data ultimately safer stored on a server in your office, under your direct control, or in a third party cloud provider’s data center, under their direct control? This is something of a polarizing issue, and concerns about offsite data security could be considered the biggest sticking [...]
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Tablets or PCs…or Your Room?
People love their iPads and their iPhones. Talk about raving fans, some of these followers are fanatical. The “if it’s not an iPhone, why would I want it?” mentality is pretty powerful and once it takes root, really difficult to shake. I credit Apple and their great marketing. But, in the minds of most business-minded [...]
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Cisco and The Cloud
It’s been an interesting ride, even from the sidelines. We’ve watched Cisco and The Cloud at first pretend to ignore each other, but eventually flirt, dance, play coy for a time then, finally, they’re beginning to come together into something we hope is starting to looks like a coherent strategy. Back in December ‘10, we [...]
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Does it seem too good to be true? Then it probably is.
Just when you thought you might actually save some money……they find yet another way to keep our pockets empty. A key premise upon which the propagation of cloud and hosted computing solutions for businesses has been based is prolific amounts of bandwidth for everybody. Enough of the business marketplace has stable and reliable enough internet [...]
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Lawyers in The Cloud: Ethical Shades of Gray
In a blog reposted from The New York Law Journal last week on www.law.com, Devika Kewalramani opined on an Issues Paper published by the American Bar Association’s Ethics 20/20 Working Group on the Implications of New technologies. The Issues Paper, Concerning Client Confidentiality and Lawyers’ Use of Technology, illustrates a number of possible issues with [...]
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I don’t care how cheap it is
…if it doesn’t work. I sometimes get to have great conversations with friends and colleagues and coworkers, about industry and technology issues. It’s one of my favorite parts of my work; getting to debate issues with some really intelligent, informed people. Recently I was in the midst of one of these conversations (my conspirator shall [...]
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3 Easy Ways to Lose a Good Client
1) Become invisible Allow a customer to forget about all the hard work and value you provide to them for your monthly fees, and they will stop paying you and find another provider. This axiom has held true since the before the days of the Managed Services business model. When you are doing your proactive, [...]
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Pre-Sales Engineering Is Important. So is Steve.
Do you know Steve Noel? Technical Product Manager for Autotask? Great guy. Smart, experienced guy. He has worked a quarter of a century in the IT services industry. Working in all aspects of the business as a consumer, provider, and vendor, Steve continues to keep his fingers on the pulse of the IT services market [...]
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84% of All Statistics Are Made Up
“There are three kids of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.” –Mark Twain Research and statistical data analysis are important functions for people in business, people whose livelihoods depend on essentially placing bets on future performance of their own and other businesses. I’m not disparaging that, not at all. But there is a darker side [...]
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The Terrible, Terrible Twos
It’s just a phase. This too will pass. If you know me personally, you probably already know that I have a two year old daughter. That little girl is the joy of my heart, and every day with her is full of brand new excitement and adventure. But the thing is, she’s two, and every [...]
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Cloud Computing: Bubble Or Boom?
Matt Rosoff of Business Insider wrote last month about recent research from UBS comparing current tech stocks values with that of the dot-com era. UBS comes to the conclusion that The Cloud may be driving a new bubble, one that will eventually burst due to its unsustainability. Ruh-roh But other are looking at the same [...]
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Why Is This Guy Blaming our “Big Cloud Push” On The iPad?
Tommy Trogden, vSpecialist with EMC, wrote in his blog this morning that as he’s out in the wild working with EMC partners, he is finding an interesting trend among end user customers—if somebody wants an iPad for a business purpose, they’re going to want The Cloud to go along with it, even if they don’t [...]
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This Week’s Weather Report Podcast: The Single Biggest Question, with Special Guest Steve Noel of Autotask
The single biggest question that solution provider and MSP business owners face is how to market their business and grow. Steve Noel of Autotask and Kate Hunt discuss some of the keys to unlocking this mystery in this week’s Weather Report podcast. Are you allowing your business to grow or causing it to grow? What’s [...]
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They’re In It For The Money, Honey
Why do people send out those awful, obnoxious spam email messages, causing us to need protection from it via solutions like ExchangeDefender at all? Whether your inbox is plagued with millions of “cheap prescription drug” offers or not, it’s hard to understand sometimes why there are so many spam-sending botnet armies out there in the [...]
