For a while now there’s been a new catch phrase, “The consumerization of IT”. It’s what happens when employees bring their own computers, phones and iPads and use them for work purposes. In the not very long ago, employers owned all the technology but increasingly now employees own the technology. […]
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This week we have two new staff members starting. As you most likely know, we’ve been looking for the right people for a very long time. Our search has been long and careful. Contrary to popular belief the market is not over flowing with talented people looking for jobs. We […]
We have entered a period of rapid change. The initiator of this rapid change is Cloud services. But is not the reason for the rapid change. The reason for the rapid change is how software and hardware companies are reacting. This reaction creates both pitfalls to avoid and opportunities to […]
It seems like only yesterday I opened my email and with great surprise found that I had joined an elite group of IT professionals as a Microsoft MVP. But here it is 7 years already and this New Year’s day I again received that email from Microsoft. It doesn’t lose […]
The end of 2011 is rapidly approaching so I wanted to take a minute to thank one and all for the great year. Our customers have been wonderful. You guys are the very best to work with and we enjoy every minute it. This year, we have struggled to […]
It is that time of year when we need to get together to talk about the future. It’s planning season. We specialize in unique businesses. We don’t cookie cutter anyone. We make sure your IT fits you and enables your staff to be more productive. Your business is unique but […]
I reported earlier about how the situation in Thailand will be affecting the availability of a hard drive for the next 12 months. Since that time we’ve had some disturbing news. There are now no hard drives available for Canadian distribution 70 million hard drive orders will go unfilled per […]
As a Microsoft MVP and a recent speaker on the Small Business Community Roadshow (13 cities around the Country – it was exhausting) I have been offered an opportunity to enter a local non-profit into an Extreme IT Makeover contest. This is sponsored by Microsoft and Hewlett Packard, who will […]
It turns out that the world is flat, or at least it is in many aspects other than physical. You may have heard that Thailand is flooding in a big way. People are displaced. People are dying. Perhaps you felt bad for those people but didn’t think the flood would […]
Yesterday starting about 12:30pm, the main data center for the spam, email and web hosting service provider that we recommend to all of you experienced a catastrophic failure. The initial problem was a power failure. This normally isn’t a big deal for a data center, since they are connected to […]