Another cruel lesson in the realities of multi-national cloud computing platforms. Did you hear that Microsoft’s Azure storage cloud fell down last week because of a school-boy error? [...]
The holiday season is often a time for reflection and strategizing for the coming year. I worry about 2 things. First, people who wait until the holidays to start thinking…
After more than 20 years in our industry, I’ve seen a lot of changes. What’s funny is how the technological advancements are reflected in the job market and the trajectory…
The Onion is making fun of big tech companies who talk about “the cloud.” This is fascinating to me. You know a topic has completely saturated our culture when it…
I love Tim Hortons. IT Weapons was born in a Tim Hortons on Dixie Road in the Spring of 2000. That coffee shop was our base of operations and the source…
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… [...]
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…
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 [...]
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…
If you haven’t heard yet … scores of businesses have been paying the price for trail-blazing early adoption with Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS). Over [...]
