Helping You Use Information Technology Productively
Big Data continues to hold on to the headlines, although I think it's being over-hyped. Businesses have started to take notice, and some are making investments already and some have even referred to it as the 'new oil'. I don't consider big data … [Read more]
In my last article I wrote about how open source (OSS) can help your business. I spoke about the flexibility it can provide and how it can help your business be more competitive. While open source software offers many advantages, it does have some … [Read more]
Open source software (OSS) has been around for about three decades, but has made some real in-roads in the past decade. OSS has long been used by online and cloud service providers, but now OSS is also a serious contender in the enterprise. … [Read more]
When I started this business about 3 years ago, it was just me and my wife. I was the only technical person, so the business was going to be mainly me, a solopreneur as they say. I didn't know if I would grow it larger than just myself, but now I've … [Read more]
There is a growing trend in businesses to outsource their IT Security to Managed Security Service Providers (MSSP). I'll be upfront and state that I was not a big fan of this, as I believed that IT security is too important to pass off to a 3rd … [Read more]
"Have you ever had a data security breach?" Whenever I ask prospects this question and they tell me, "No!" – and most prospects do say no – I laugh heartily... in my head of course. Breaches have now become an almost inevitable part of data … [Read more]