Author Archives: Vlad

Shockey Monkey Update

Posted: 9:21 pm
June 13, 2011
Cloud, IT Business, Shockey Monkey
1 Comment

It’s been a few months since I’ve offered you an update on Shockey Monkey. Since last fall the product has been very solid and in a few months we will be celebrating our first birthday! Over the past few months … Continue reading →

Opposing Business Models or Solution Variety?

Posted: 1:49 am
June 12, 2011
ExchangeDefender, IT Business, OwnWebNow, Pimpin
4 Comments

MSPs and IT Solution Providers have an inherent business model flaw: They can’t compete on both price and performance at the same time. Your solution cannot simultaneously be the best and the cheapest because the cheapest is always getting cheaper … Continue reading →

Best Buy dislikes their product, hires lawyers that don’t know trademark law

Posted: 4:22 pm
June 9, 2011
IT Business, Legal, SMB
2 Comments

Have you ever been to a Best Buy and just left the place floored at how knowledgeable or expert the staff there is? If you have, someone must be reading this post to you because there is NO way you … Continue reading →

Microsoft Tablet vs. Apple Office: Which idea is worse?

Posted: 11:52 am
June 8, 2011
Apple, Microsoft
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One of the biggest signs of success and opulence is losing respect for money. If you have trust-fund-baby friends out there that have never had to work for a dollar (or euro or pound to be fair to my readers), … Continue reading →

Apple iCloud Relives Past Mistakes

Posted: 11:21 am
June 7, 2011
Apple
4 Comments

Apple is slowly taking over Microsoft as the dominant software company both by mindshare and by revenue. It has hung it’s hat on being the leader in the post-PC (read: no-Microsoft) world. It’s actually a quote straight from Steve Jobs. … Continue reading →

ExchangeDefender Web Share Uploads for Clients

Posted: 10:00 am
June 7, 2011
ExchangeDefender
2 Comments

ExchangeDefender Web Share has been one of the most popular ExchangeDefender features in the 5.0 release and we’ve improved it quite a bit in 7.0 – with the biggest request in all of ExchangeDefender platform: We need to allow our … Continue reading →

I’m back

Posted: 9:21 pm
June 6, 2011
IT Business
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Well, 2011 has been nice. Almost half of it down with some back-to-back binges personally and professionally. I spent the end of 2010 with another baby, then started 2011 with a 3 month Ironman session that ExchangeDefender 7 was born … Continue reading →

Launching Stuff The Right Way

Posted: 10:46 pm
June 2, 2011
IT Business
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On Monday we launched ExchangeDefender 7. So to be fair, I’ve had 7 opportunities to learn how to do this right 😉 I’m offering this out loud because as much as it is just simple common sense, you don’t have … Continue reading →

ExchangeDefender 7

Posted: 3:22 am
May 31, 2011
Uncategorized
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Something totally awesome and cool just happened. We launched a product at 9 PM, published a bug hotline, did a live switch in a live environment… and the line didn’t ring once in 6 hours that I’ve been sitting next … Continue reading →

When should you open your mouth?

Posted: 8:28 am
May 24, 2011
IT Business
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This is something I wish I knew in my 20’s but I often encounter much older people that have not learned this lesson. Quick question: When should you open your mouth? It’s so easy to get dragged into fights online … Continue reading →