Recent Articles
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MSPs ID Lack of Network Visibility as Top Problem
Is the latest cat video that’s gone viral on YouTube clogging your customer’s network? Got more than a few employees listening to their own private radio stations on Pandora? A new survey of managed service providers reveals that more than half of them spend 13 percent of their time troubleshooting sluggish networks—sluggishness that can be…
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Framing a Common Definition for Cloud Computing
The channel spent years deliberating and debating the true definition of what constitutes a managed service. I don’t know if the issue was ever really settled or if the channel just got bored and moved on. Now that we’re entering the era of cloud computing, the opportunity for renewed debate over cloud computing’s definition. Frankly,…
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Google Clarifies Channel Position; Questions Linger
Following the publication of my article “Google’s Incomplete Channel Program Still a Work in Progress” on Monday, the G-men sent me a note to clarify a point in the article—where to find information about Google’s channel program(s). While Google is all about organizing and simplifying access to information on the Internet, it’s no different from…
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Are Data Centers Factories? Washington State Says No
Microsoft may be doing a forklift move of its new 470,000-square-foot data center in Quincy, Wash., after state regulators declared the facility is not qualified for tax exemptions intended for manufacturing facilities. Data Center Knowledge reports that Microsoft is threatening to move the facility designated to host the Azure cloud-based operating system and application services…
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Did Twitter’s Hack Cause You Pain?
Did your world come crashing down on Thursday when you tried to tweet something and it failed? I, for one, survived the well-publicized hack attack on Twitter that also apparently slowed or stymied the Facebook Web site. I think most of us made it through the day without real pain from tweet withdrawal, though I…
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Gasp! Microsoft Takes Linux Hyper-V Drivers Open Source
Microsoft temporarily suspended its fear and loathing of all things Linux this week. The Windows juggernaut released Linux Hyper-V drivers under the GPL version 2 and submitted them for inclusion in the main Linux kernel source tree. What next? Sharepoint running natively on Linux? Let’s not go that far. But while submitting device driver code…