Last night we attended the 9th Annual CDN Channel Elite Awards – and for the 3rd year in a row, our team was recognized in multiple solution categories. We netted 4 awards. Today is a good day; the mood in the office is great and [...]
I’ve been talking a lot with clients lately about security and the Cloud. These issues aren’t new, but something came up in conversation that has been resonating with me for days. As with most interesting ideas, it is pretty simple. [...]
VMworld 2011 kicks off today … and while Las Vegas got overrun this morning by an army of over 20,000 IT professionals, Jason and I got a preview of VMware’s state-of-the-union during today’s executive lunch with VMware CEO [...]
We’ve all heard the latest buzz-phrase: The Consumerization of IT. What does it really mean? In the broadest terms it’s this: the penetration of employee-purchased mobile devices like the iPhone, iPad, and Android phones and tablets [...]
Have you had a call from a Super Computer Technician about the virus on your home PC? We had a pretty good laugh at the lunch table last week about the companies that are calling home computer users telling them that their home computer has [...]
California Senator Ellen Corbett has tabled a bill that would force online services and social networking sites to make the default user settings private (except for the user’s name and city of residence). Users will be forced to choose [...]
Here’s an industry cliche: downtime is a terrible sin. And lately, there’s been plenty of sinnin’. We’ve all heard the recent stories about the Amazon Web Services outage in late April and Sony’s giant data [...]
As part of ITW’s ongoing Weapons Grade event series, we are hosting another really unique educational session for our clients. We are brining in high-level reps from industry leaders to present their vision of IT; where they see their [...]
Phineas Taylor Barnum was the world’s first show-business millionaire. He could promote and sell anything. He is historically … but erroneously … credited with the following phrase: There’s a sucker born every minute. [...]
Another cautionary tale from the cloud. Last Sunday afternoon Google accidentally deleted the Gmail folders of tens of thousands of users. Contact lists were mostly intact, but for most victims, years of saved correspondence was wiped [...]
