Category Archives: IT Business

Idiots guide to vendor relationships: What does a VAR want?

IT Business
2 Comments

This will be a brief series of posts describing the relationships that vendors and vars have and how they can effectively use their positions to screw one another. I happen to sit on both of these chairs so I’m offering … Continue reading

Orlando ITPRO Meeting This Thursday

Friends, IT Business, IT Culture
1 Comment

Orlando ITPRO meeting is scheduled for this Thursday, August 2nd at 6:30 PM so come on over. It’s at the New Horizons (meeting not open to general public, must be a member of ITPRO due to confidentiality issues, lawyer speak, … Continue reading

Some Thoughts on SBSC by Vijay

Friends, IT Business, SMB
on Some Thoughts on SBSC by Vijay

I know how alergic you are to clickthroughs so I’ve reprinted the whole article Vijay wrote because its perhaps the finest piece of social/business reflection on what it is most of us do. If you are moved to respond please … Continue reading

Debating Apple Marketing

IT Business
5 Comments

Lord knows I hate Apple users. For decades Apple has been known for its delusions about being better while holding on to less than 5% of PC market share so now that they actually have significant share of a certain market they had … Continue reading

Dell Buys SilverBack

IT Business
4 Comments

SilverBack, also known as the company with the best damn swag at WWPC, got bought out by Dell. Conversely, this means Dell is buying itself into the managed services space. Interestingly, nobody seems to have raised a lot of interest … Continue reading

Are you going to SMB Nation?

Events, IT Business, SMB
24 Comments

No. Of course not. If you’d like to know why, read below… Everyone seems to be asking if I’m going. After last years sales festival everyone seems to be trying to figure out if Dana and Arlin are really going … Continue reading

Interesting weekend ahead: Big Infrastructure

ExchangeDefender, IT Business, OwnWebNow, System Admin
on Interesting weekend ahead: Big Infrastructure

Every now and then poor planning and an incredible growth curve meet to make something special. We’re having a special maintenance cycle this weekend at OwnWebNow and rather than to test our luck I’ve extended the maintenance cycle by 5 hours to make sure … Continue reading

Vlad’s School of Customer Service: Callbacks and Voicemail

IT Business, SMB, Vladville
8 Comments

One of the joys of business travel is the mandatory trackback week that happens when you make it back to the office. If you’re lucky, someone has listened to your messages and written down the people to call back. If … Continue reading

WWPC: Impression-Reflection

Events, IT Business, Microsoft
on WWPC: Impression-Reflection

The other night I was traveling back from WWPC with two girls from Microsoft that were heading to their MDX meeting. I did my best as a Floridian to give them an idea of what to do, where to go, … Continue reading

Why geeks make horrible executives

Friends, IT Business
4 Comments

A few months ago I spoke to Dana who was working on OpenID authentication for AuthAnvil. OpenID, eh? (not a slant on Canadians, just pure interest in decentralized authentication technology) It got me thinking, I comment on a ton of … Continue reading