Category Archives: IT Business

Failure Point: Where innovation meets old habits

Posted: 12:05 pm
December 10, 2007
IT Business, Microsoft
1 Comment

As Mick Jagger would say, old habits die hard. Unfortunately for SharePoint, arguably the biggest piece of innovation from Redmond in 5 years, this leads for further commoditisation (it’s a word if I say it is) of the Microsoft value … Continue reading →

SMB VARs Guide To Overcoming The Lonely 13 Year Old Girl Syndrome

Posted: 10:47 am
December 5, 2007
IT Business, SMB
8 Comments

I am not going to claim that I am, ever have been or ever will be a lonely 13 year old girl. However, I am rapidly becoming more and more familiar with grown men and women that act like 13 … Continue reading →

AT&T starts offering low-cost DSL (NSFW)

Posted: 9:44 am
December 2, 2007
IT Business
4 Comments

Warning: Clicking on the links in this post will get you fired/divorced. But if you were not expecting that you wouldn’t be here anyhow. In a fake show of concern for the consumer, FCC did something nice in its act of collectively screwing … Continue reading →

Vista SP1 vs. XP SP3 Performance Stats: Flawed Samples or Market Reality?

Posted: 5:09 pm
November 28, 2007
IT Business, Microsoft, Vladville
13 Comments

The bad news for Microsoft Vista keep on piling on, this week from a group outraged that the Vista SP1 is apparently only focusing on the stability and reliability, not performance. Through what is arguably flawed test, a group has … Continue reading →

Sign up for the Vladville Newsletter!!!

Posted: 5:05 pm
November 26, 2007
IT Business, IT Culture, SMB, Uncategorized, Vladville
on Sign up for the Vladville Newsletter!!!

Lot’s of people want to keep track of what I am up to but do not have the time to read every word, every day. I also get plenty of items that people would like to bring attention to, but … Continue reading →

The K.I.T. Challenge: Pursuing Leads

Posted: 11:00 pm
November 23, 2007
IT Business, SMB
on The K.I.T. Challenge: Pursuing Leads

Remember your senior year of high school and all the K.I.T.’s in your yearbook? Keep in touch, a promise you probably live up to every 5-10 years around reunions. That may work for friends, but that does not work for … Continue reading →

The SMB Microsoft Partner Challenge

Posted: 2:20 pm
November 22, 2007
IT Business, Microsoft
on The SMB Microsoft Partner Challenge

Happy Thanksgiving Folks! I hope spending time relaxing, hopefully with family and the ones you love is recharging your batteries and making you look forward to cracking that SMB Microsoft Challenge I asked you to think about the other day. … Continue reading →

123-Reg Hosting Service Offline All Weekend

Posted: 5:00 pm
November 19, 2007
IT Business
on 123-Reg Hosting Service Offline All Weekend

I tend to keep my company to a really high standard because not only is it my business, but my business rides on top of that infrastructure. So when someone has a problem, its my problem too. I tend to … Continue reading →

Who’s yo daddy now, bitch? (Microsoft 2, SMB IT Providers 0)

Posted: 7:50 pm
November 18, 2007
IT Business, System Admin
9 Comments

Mark says: “ODG, was Vlad actually right?” Now Mark is a pretty smart guy but I get the “I hate it when you’re right” speach every other day from people that deal with me (as opposed to “OMG, you’re not … Continue reading →

CEO Gig: Optimization vs. Interaction

Posted: 11:11 pm
November 17, 2007
Friends, IT Business, SMB
on CEO Gig: Optimization vs. Interaction

This week was supposed to be my first full week of work at the Atomic Tangerine studios.. Monday was a holiday, Tuesday was a sick day and week was more than half over by the time I finished hanging the … Continue reading →