Author Archives: Vlad

To Robbie, from the City of Angels, with love. (Warning: not safe for anyone, anywhere, anytime)

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Final warning: You should not read this blog post. Under any circumstances. Ever. I love Los Angeles. Best place on earth. Tons of energy. Tons of people. Tons of opportunity. I’m here on my second leg of ExchangeDefender 4 tour … Continue reading

Who knew Henry Ford was an infrastructure VAR?

IT Business, Vladville
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Today’s guest blog post comes courtesy of the page 18-19 of the latest issue of the Harvard Business Review. I think it sounds eerily similar to the attitudes we’re seeing in the IT field these days and felt it was … Continue reading

Off on the ExchangeDefender 4 Road Trip

ExchangeDefender, OwnWebNow
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As you may have noticed, I’ve been rather quiet about the ExchangeDefender 4.0 upcoming feature set. For a product scheduled for launch date of August 19th it’s pretty unusual for me to be this silent about it. So you know … Continue reading

Pampers and Clouds: The end of an IT generation

IT Business, IT Culture, Microsoft
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Geek Squad Dave first gained notoriety in the newsgroups for his very public lack of ability to grasp the basic concepts of vendor and client management and dealing with cost structure changes. After being condemned in public by most of … Continue reading

Perplexed by Change in Direction?

IT Culture
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It means confused, just in case you’re wondering. Why do companies that have been built on going direct suddenly decide to care about the reseller channel? Why do companies that have been built on the reseller channel partnerships decide to … Continue reading

Live from the Garbage truck worker convention…

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Ok, not really, that one is still scheduled for October 4th-6th, but the college football season in the south is getting warmer than a moonshine possum stew. Here with some thoughts is Chris Rue’s-black-half-brother-from-another-mother: Amen. Inspirational. SEC, SEC, SEC! (having … Continue reading

Being Vlad Mazek

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One of the readers emailed (vlad@vladville.com btw) to ask what it’s really like to be Vlad Mazek. Surely the post about working long hours can’t be real because nobody would believe that someone in my role would work that hard. … Continue reading

There are no rewards for just doing your job

IT Business
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Yesterday was a slow day, with all the 1st of the month stuff wrapped up people tend to sit back, refocus, adjust their appointments and plan for the week ahead so Monday morning doesn’t start on a bad note. It’s … Continue reading

Lucy’s Sail: Shockey Monkey Forever

Shockey Monkey
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After over two years in production, design and testing… The “When it’s done” just became “Done.“ v2 has been in use at Own Web Now for a while and the underlying framework is being used to power all our upcoming … Continue reading

By George, I think Dell’s got it

IT Business
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For years Dell lead the way of ugly PC manufacturing. Their claim to fame has been the cheapest and most generic PC on the planet, delivered to your doorstep in any variation of ugly you want. Beige, duotone silver, black … Continue reading