Many years ago, my first boss had a habit of walking around the office shouting, “GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE CLOUDS.” I haven’t talked to him in a while but I’ve got a feeling that he may be rethinking that business philosophy when it comes to IT expenditures. Technology was, for the most part,…
If you’re anything like us, people are always making suggestions on what to read, what to buy, or what to listen to during all that downtime in your schedule. Yah right. Downtime is that other word for your daily commute or maybe the few minutes between brushing your teeth and that morning cup of coffee.…
Every time I think about renewing my software license, I conjure up a vision of an old man in a rocking chair. “When I was your age, we just picked what we wanted, figured how long we wanted to use it, negotiated the deal, and paid the man at the cash register.” Ah yes… the…
“Of course my IT consultant costs me money,” you may be thinking. “Consultants aren’t free.” No, they’re not, but they also shouldn’t be wasting your company’s hard-won budget on inefficient systems. A great IT consultant should be finding you ways to improve efficiency, lower costs (and monetize your investment), thereby providing value to your organization…
Did I hear someone say VDI?
“The budget evolved from a management tool into an obstacle to management.” Former Defense Director Frank Carlucci was talking about government spending when he made this comment but he may as well have been referring to those days leading up to the start of a new IT budget year. It’s that time when executives go…
If you’re like me, you probably learned to count to ten in kindergarten. But when it comes to a company’s telecommunications infrastructure, you’d be surprised how many corporate executives have trouble with simple addition. As a company grows, telco, like other IT investments, often gets treated as the necessary evil. “The new guy needs a…
What’s hot, what’s not, and what never will be? The Kardashians may be the barometer for teenage fashion trends, Apple may set the bar on things like wearable gadgets, and festivals like SXSW may determine what you will be listening to for the next twelve months. But where are things going in the exciting world…
Here in the northeast, a good dose of early spring rain is helping to wash away what we hope will be the last vestiges of snow and winter. That fifty-degree liquid sunshine is enough to get us all thinking about cleaning out the garage and getting things together for some summer fun. But what’s so…
“No one ever understood disaster until it came.” Controversial writer Josephine Herbst penned that phrase decades ago when the words “information technology” were still tucked away in Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard’s little garage. But as our dependence on IT and the mass amounts of data it generates became the center of our business and…