Stephen West, Trend Micro Australia, Small Business Manager for ANZ has let me know that he’s moving on to other challenges and will be leaving Trend at the end of 2009. He’s been one of the moving forces behind Trends deep penetration into the SMB market here in Australia and I’m sure will be sorely missed by Trend Australia. Dave Patniak – Trend Micro Australia’s … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2009
Correct Solutions in top 50 IT companies in Australia
We all know the economy is not good globally, so it’s with great pleasure that I announce that my other company – Correct Solutions which I started back in 1997 and now share with Ryan Spillane has made it to number 21 in CRN Australia's top 50 fastest growing IT companies. The CRN Fast 50 was designed to highlight those resellers in Australia that have grown above and … [Read more...]
Microsoft Security Essentials
The news is all abuzz about Microsoft releasing free Antivirus software recently. Indeed they have – Microsoft Security Essentials is available free of charge. So like any good techo, I need to take a look at this. I’m evaluating this from the perspective of finding out if it could replace Trend Micro WFBS on our client sites. I uninstalled Trend Micro WFBS 6.0 from my … [Read more...]
SMBNation 2009 – Post Conference Thoughts
I wrote this blog post a few weeks back now, but “lost it”… I figured the information is still relevant so I’d post it anyway. I’m due shortly to fly home to Australia for Las Vegas. I’ve been here now for 8 days, a little longer than I should have due to a planning mishap on my part. I wanted to put together a few thoughts on the event, the people and the location for … [Read more...]
HP MiniNote 2140 SATA vs SSD
I recently moved my 2140 from a 160GB SATA drive over to a 120GB SSD drive. Below you can see the performance of the system with the disk at a rating of 5.4. Following the replacement with the SSD, you can see below the performance has gone up to 7.1 which is pretty darn impressive. From my perspective it does seem to run faster all round. In fact I’m finding it hard … [Read more...]