2010: Server Upgrade Choices for the SMB

Many small to mid-range companies upgraded their server assets with the release of Windows Server 2003. The 2003 server was very popular and contributed to Microsoft retaining a 88% server market share, fending off Mac and Linux in this space for most of the decade.  However, as it’s now five years old, the 2003 R1 [...]

Living Outside the Box – Part Deux

Some of my readers might remember my experimentation with open source solutions back in February. My mission: identify and use open source products instead of common ISV (Independent Software Vendor) products from Microsoft. I wanted to try out the alternatives so I could talk about them honestly with students and clients. So, in another post [...]

Free

I wanted to take a few minutes this week to talk about a great book that just hit the shelves from one of my favorite contemporary business and technology authors, Chris Anderson, Editor at Wired Magazine. His latest book, “Free”, explores the business strategies behind digital media and explains how less is more. A lot [...]

Email (In)security

This week, one of my clients talked to me about a strange set of coincidences. When he was discussing a specific topic in email, the next day, the exact same topic/phrase came back to him in the form of spam email, and the next day, the same thing. In fact, he could see a common [...]

The End of Work

Maybe I’m being too harsh with the title – perhaps “the evolution of work” would be better? Well, let me jump into the idea. TIME Magazine’s May 25, 2009 cover story revealed the rapidly changing nature of the workplace. What was revealed was a stark contrast to how we’d perceive work today, and the story’s [...]