By Russ Levanway, CEO This week, several members of our leadership team will attend two different conferences, both of which are peer-driven. One is a vendor conference where we’ll learn about technologies that will take our services to the next level. We’ll attend with a couple hundred other IT companies, sharing notes and information about… Read more »
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By Jeremy Koellish, COO When you first start a business, it feels like your baby. You’re tired and excited and every time you look at her you swell with pride because she is beautiful and special (even if her head is a little coned and her cry sounds like a squeaky door). But a business is… Read more »
By Ruby Nahal, Systems Engineer A rose by any other name I, like many techs, think VMware’s “snapshot” is a pretty slick feature. I just think it should have been named something else. See, when it comes to functionality, VMware did not stick to the industry standard of what most of us regard as a… Read more »
By John Lim, CTO Memories for Ransom I have a question for you: If someone held your wedding photos ransom, how much would you be willing to pay to get them back? Here’s a different question: How much would you be willing to pay to ensure you never have to make that kind of decision?… Read more »
Santa Barbara, CA, February 16, 2016 – CIO Solutions, announced today that CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, has named CIO Solutions to its 2016 Managed Service Provider (MSP) 500 list in the MSP Pioneer 250 category. This annual list recognizes North American solution providers with cutting-edge approaches to delivering managed services. Their top-notch… Read more »
By Jeremy Koellish, COO Here’s how it starts: You’re presented with a problem and your mind instantly begins to work at it like a reflex instead of the complex wonder machine it actually is. You find you’re going nowhere fast and you wonder why. Sound familiar? Don’t worry, there’s a term for it – it’s… Read more »
By April Cole Worley Prodigal Sun The day Ruby was born her aunt cried. But not for the reasons someone raised in the West would understand. The tears were traditional in nature, for it was customary in India to cry at the birth of girl babies and celebrate the birth of boy babies. But Ruby’s… Read more »
By Russ Levanway Rhetoric vs. Reality The standoff between Apple and the FBI over access to the iPhone used by Syed Rizwan Farook in the San Bernardino mass shooting last December is a polarizing case. In the media, the rhetoric has primarily hinged on a question of safety vs. privacy: Should the government have backdoor… Read more »
By Jeremy Koellish, COO Today I’m going to talk workflows. Did the mere mention of the word ‘workflow’ just then make you nervous? Trust me, you’re not alone. That said, this article is going to address the most common barriers to developing workflows, reasons why you ought to move past those barriers and tricks to… Read more »
By Russ Levanway Keeping the Love Alive With Valentine’s Day coming up, relationships are on everyone’s mind. I’ve been thinking about relationships, too – not so much the romantic variety but, more appropriately for this column, the relationship between IT providers and their clients. What makes a good IT partnership work? I believe that for… Read more »