Many of my readers will know that I am very wary of just following everyone else into the cloud. I’ve spoken a few times now both in public presentations and on this blog about how the cloud is something to be cautiously evaluated and considered before jumping into it. Here then is an upside that I’ve personally experienced with the cloud. This website SBSfaq.com … [Read more...]
Virgin Airlines seeks $20M in damages–are you protected?
Here in Australia, we’ve been familiar with the troubles that Virgin Airlines has had over the last few weeks with it’s outsourced IT Infrastructure. They’ve had literally DAYS of problems with flights having to be cancelled, customer services issues, you name it. All of this has caused a major loss of face and public support for Virgin. The finger is being … [Read more...]
Apple Humour – does it scale?
I received this via email – so I can’t easily credit the source, but I thought it was quite funny and in reality it shows how things tend to work in the industry. People get into the idea that if they do something once at a given size that they can just scale up from there and the world will beat a path to their door. Classicly Apple seem to be on the right path … [Read more...]
Time Management Skills for SMB IT Pros
Ok – I’m going to be the first to admit that I’m hopeless at time management. Being an SMB IT Professional, most of my work day is taken up with working on or for clients. Much of that is interrupt drive based on whatever problem comes up first. You can get to the end of the day each day and feel as if you’ve not accomplished anything much at all – and that … [Read more...]
Sydney Business Development and Cloud Services workshop – Registrations NOW OPEN
Robert Crane – leader of the Sydney SMB IT Professionals group has announced this morning that registrations for our next workshop are open. These workshops have been outstanding successes for all involved and if you are not part of it, I suggest you get moving along to be part of this. Just because you don’t live in Sydney, does not mean you can’t be part of … [Read more...]