Brainstorm Immortalized
Years ago, when Jay and I began dreaming up a managed services practice (MSP), we set some goals: we would take on the accountability of our clients for the IT portion of their long and short-term business strategy. It seemed a natural extension from our growing consulting practice; which has always been rooted in delivering the best TCO and ROI-based solutions. We took seriously the idea that our projects had to enable our clients to make bolder and more confident business decisions; growing their own businesses becoming more profitable. Selfishly, this made great sense for the long term success of ITW too. As or clients grow, they would need more services from us! Win-win, right?
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Categories: Advice, Industry Observations Tags: business advice, cloud computing, Consulting, IT Weapons Data Centre, IT Weapons team, Managed Services, value-add service, virtual desktop infrastructure, virtual desktops, virtualization
McIntel…?
Perhaps you heard recent news that Intel bought McAfee. And perhaps you thought “Hmmm, that’s weird – why would a hardware company buy an antivirus company?” Admittedly, at first glance I was taken aback by this news but, after some consideration, it makes good sense.
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Here’s a common question lately: ”should my company implement virtual desktops?”
The short answer is, yes. But the devil is in the details. To virtualize your desktops right, the technology must be carefully designed and rigorously tested. We’ve seen many ad hoc, ‘thrown in’ virtual desktop implementations done by others where ITW ended up coming in to fix it after the users and admins started to complain. While we do love being the hero; swooping in to save the day, we also love helping our clients make the right choices the first time around. In the IT industry, as in carpentry … measure twice … cut once.
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