Warning: This is an opinion piece and quite honestly, a rant. You have been warned. Our business has been supporting the technology needs of SMBs for 12 years now, after we stepped out of the corporate world. The early years were comparatively easy – a business wanted I.T. support, we’d upgrade a server or two…
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The world is changing and so is Spirent
Sometimes it’s great to sit down for a presentation with no preconceived ideas. It makes it interesting to listen to a guy up the front in a company t-shirt, who you’re not viewing as the ‘Vice President of Marketing & Product Strategy’. The title doesn’t actually do justice to Neil Holmquist from Spirent Communications. The…
The problem with Partners
As a ‘partner’ in the ‘channel’ (just imagine the air quotes), I’m going to stand on my soapbox and have a little chat about the role that we play in making software & hardware companies successful. Yeah, that totally sounded conceited, but follow along with me here. There are so many facets to this chat that…
An Office 2013 product fails to install after removal of Click to Run
The Click to Run software manages the streaming of the installation of some Office products and a virtualised environment to enable different versions to run side by side on a Windows computer. If this software gets its ‘knickers in a knot’ (technical term), you might come across some issues with your next Office software installation.…
How SMB IT service providers view the Cloud
It’s not news that IT is an ever-changing industry. The skills that I learnt when I first started are now mostly irrelevant. I say ‘mostly’ because some of the fundamentals of disks, files, networks etc still hold true (once we’d migrated off token ring anyway). And I still use the command prompt to search for…
A looong weekend
Monday in Queensland is a public holiday to observe labour day, which is quite apt because yes, I’m working. Now before you pity me that I don’t get three whole days off (in a row!), I’m not that concerned actually. Long weekends are the perfect structure for me. I’ve had time to spend with friends and family, time…