In the company I’m working in and the companies I’m providing consultancy services, I always feel a little bitterness both from the management and from the end users. I can safely say that government tax officials are more welcome than myself, no matter how I behave or what I wear. Really, am I the only […]
Doing more with less. Current business climate. Unemployment. Still increasing workloads. You have been here? You have seen this before, right? Wrong. Your IT staff, doing the best they can but still getting nothing except a pat on the back has a drained morale, are frustrated, angry and exhausted. And as the human nature dictates, […]
I have a diverse background. An ocean-going master mariner that had a sharp mid-life career change to a childhood love (the computers) and then a Microsoft Certified Trainer. Luckily, this diverse background helps me see things from different perspectives. Especially managing people on board as a captain brings a lot to the table when speaking […]
I am always amazed that the IT people operate in a very disciplined, task-oriented manner but fail to understand how people think and work, let alone working in harmony with the users or customers most of the time. Even the fact that the IT people themselves are already users do not help make their relationships […]
The cloud, being one of the major IT transformations for the past couple of years, has been a big bandwagon for the merchants to jump on. You see marketing materials everywhere, especially with the interactive cost calculators that immediately tell you the savings involved. If you look at these cloud calculators closely, you will see […]
In all my discussions about migrating your data center to the cloud, I have taken a broader view of benefits offered by the cloud. In this article, I will specifically talk about the benefits of moving e-mail to the cloud. I chose e-mail on purpose: e-mail is a service that has a low performance score […]
Internet is all about the articles on Information Technologies, the most regarded ones are the how-tos and breaking tech news for the system administrators. Then comes the product announcements, support forums, downloadable tools, career pages. But what about the IT pro? Throughout my life in IT, whether as an IT pro, IT user or as […]
I have presented my humble views on the future of the current IT job descriptions in my previous article titled “Cloud Jobs: Skyrocketing is an Understatement.” All of the job descriptions were fairly self explanatory, but one needed a complete discussion: IT/Enterprise Architects. Before giving a technical definition on it, let’s see how the cloud […]
Constant efficiency and availability are critical factors for any company whose business revolves around e-commerce. Every element of the organization’s architecture from operating system and web applications to hardware and network connectivity must be designed with fault tolerance and redundancy in mind. An inaccessible website or damaged OS kernel could put your operation on halt […]
At first glance, cheap hosting is an ideal solution for individuals and small businesses looking to create a web presence. After all, why pay top-dollar when so many hosts are offering the same service for next to nothing? Yes, cheap hosting appears to be the route for obvious reasons but is it really a reliable […]