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IT’s Most Needed Skills

IT does not exist in a bubble. IT is a business enabler, a way of taking an existing business and making it more efficient, cost effective, nimble and capable. Except for home hobbyist, and even there this isn’t quite…

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The Risks of Licensing

There are so many kinds of risk that we address and must consider in IT systems it is easy to overlook risks that are non-technical, especially ones…

If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It

We’ve all heard that plenty, right? “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” People use it everywhere as a way to discourage improvements, modernization or…

Business of IT

The Social Contract of Sales

In IT we tend to deal with more sales scenarios than most business positions will do. An accountant, for example, is rarely in a position to buy…

Virtualize Domain Controllers

One would think that the idea of virtualizing Active Directory Domain Controllers would not be a topic needing discussion, and yet I find that the…

Storage

When a Backup Is Not A Backup

Conceptually the idea of “backup” has become a murky area within IT. Everyone seems to have their own concepts of what a backup is and how they…