Do you ever talk to an “Old” IT person? You know, like 40ish. Man, do they have some stories about how IT used to be back in the day. Things sure have changed a lot. You probably think to yourself “Man, they have no idea how things are now”. How about …
We run into a lot of questions about Cloud, mainly “What is it?”. So we created this table of Terms and Definitions to help clarify things. [custom_table] Term Definition Advanced Virtualization Advanced Virtualization is when the virtual IT infrastructure includes servers, storage and networks, and has automated management of the …
Let’s face it, I.T. is a big expense. As a former CEO of several organizations, I can tell you looking at the I.T. expense is a head shaker. Chalked up as a “cost of doing business” today, I.T. is a significant line item on just about any company’s budget. It …
You may or may not be aware of the battles that are raging between Microsoft and Apple, Microsoft and Google, Microsoft and Salesforce.com, basically… Microsoft and everybody. Over the years, Microsoft has proven to always be “late to the party”, but once they arrive, they historically seem to just take …
There is a reason so many companies are using software and servers that are 1, 2 or 10 versions behind the current ones. Fear! Fear of cost, Fear of downtime, Fear of data loss, Fear of losing your job in the wake of an upgrade catastrophe. Are these fears legitimate? Absolutely, as all of the above can easily happen.
Some of you younger whippersnappers may not remember the days when data was stored in file cabinets. That’s not a metaphor, I mean actual metal file cabinets. It’s true! In the olden days, we used to have rooms full of them.
There is a cloud of marketing and hype surrounding “cloud” technologies. A fog of jargony words and needlessly ugly acronyms obscure understanding and make everything look like the same, soft grayish fog. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, cloudware, private clouds, cloudsourcing, utility computing … even the word “platform” gets overused and abused, …
Microsoft announces improvements to its support for security and privacy in Office 365.
Thirty-eight percent of U.S. banking customers are online-oriented and 18 percent are mobile-enabled, according to new research.
