Category Archives: IT Business

How do you create compelling value on top of something that is no longer a problem people will pay to solve?

Posted: 7:54 am
March 4, 2010
IT Business
on How do you create compelling value on top of something that is no longer a problem people will pay to solve?

Long title but it gets the point across – how do you stay commercially viable when your offering is not something people are willing to recognize as a problem worth paying you to solve? I’ve been on record stating that … Continue reading →

Why Things Fail

Posted: 9:52 pm
February 28, 2010
IT Business
8 Comments

Warning: Adult situations and topics ahead. Have you ever heard these?    Seize the day.    Live each day as if it were your last.    Live life to the fullest. People like to say these things. But when it … Continue reading →

Service Provider Hyperbole

Posted: 10:40 pm
February 12, 2010
IT Business
2 Comments

Something that has been on my mind as of late, and on the minds of OWN senior management, is the level of difficulty required to obtain our services. Here are the polar issues involved: Our stuff is too difficult to … Continue reading →

Full Throttle

Posted: 3:05 am
January 30, 2010
IT Business, IT Culture
1 Comment

With about 47 hours left in January, I wanted to hit the neglected-as-of-recently blog and update everyone about how things are going here. Having wrapped one of the bitchiest weeks I’ve had in a long while I can now look … Continue reading →

Be Nice, Be Honest

Posted: 11:35 pm
January 27, 2010
IT Business
on Be Nice, Be Honest

It’s been a long time since Own Web Now Corp and ExchangeDefender were all about me. We’ve grown tremendously through the years, with a fair amount of pain, that is almost inevitable with success. With February 1st right around the … Continue reading →

Is it time to revise 2010 expectations?

Posted: 1:31 am
January 25, 2010
IT Business
1 Comment

This is the question that has been thrown at me time and time again by partners that I’ve talked to in the last week. The euphoria of the new year had passed. The “Windows 7” migrations didn’t materialize. World in … Continue reading →

Quiet Before The Storm

Posted: 10:05 pm
January 19, 2010
IT Business
1 Comment

Many of you have been emailing and calling to ask what I’m up to and what’s going on – yes, I have been quiet but not on purpose. We’ve been working remarkably hard on ExchangeDefender 5 and a few other … Continue reading →

Taking Technology Seriously

Posted: 11:17 pm
January 15, 2010
IT Business
on Taking Technology Seriously

Earlier today we launched the OWN University. That is to say, we formalized the process by which we will be creating, distributing, managing and enhancing the way we will aggressively get businesses into the cloud they can trust. Please check … Continue reading →

Randomized Services as a Security Precaution

Posted: 11:16 am
December 27, 2009
IT Business
2 Comments

The other day a muslim terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab who was on a no fly list failed to blow up a flight to Detroit. He successfully sent the panic and travel standards back to Fall of 2001. This is a … Continue reading →

SPAM Show 15: Liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive!

Posted: 12:53 am
December 22, 2009
IT Business
on SPAM Show 15: Liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive!

Dating back to the good ol’ SBS Show, we’ve always gotten together at the end of the year, poured some eggnog and looked towards the future. 2010 will be no different. This Wednesday, Mr Erick Simpson, Mr Karl Palachuk and … Continue reading →