Con men have their confidence tricks, some IT vendors have their sales tricks. There is actually a surprising similarity between the two. Read on and learn how to stop from being a mark in an IT swindle. 1. Bait and Switch is a classic swindle where the artist baits marks by advertising products at a [...]
Data Acceleration “Worst” Practices
Feb 8, 2013 by Leave a Comment
I am constantly getting emails with “Best Practice” advice — for everything from traveling to IT. Well, it got me thinking: why doesn’t anyone provide “Worst Practice” advice? Can’t we all learn from other people’s mistakes? So here goes, this is my top 5 list of misconceptions and things to avoid in the data acceleration [...]
Seven Tools That Quantify Cloud ROI
Jan 10, 2013 by 2 Comments
“Going to the Cloud” may have implicitly meant saving money for many in 2012, but increasingly, IT has to provide deeper fiscal justification for its cloud strategy if it’s to get buy-in from the business. Matters are only made more complicated by the emergence of different types of clouds. As I point out in my [...]
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