Want to know a productivity hack to tidying up all those loose ends? – Schedule some time away from the office. There’s no motivation like an immovable deadline! Next week I’m travelling to Sydney for three Microsoft events. This time I’ve booked an AirBnB and the family are coming with me. I’m looking forward to…
After the announcement of Microsoft 365, I’d pushed it into the “look at this later” pile. A recent Microsoft presentation at a reseller event flicked the switch for me on how Microsoft 365 Business could really help SMBs who are still stuck on Windows 7 or Windows 8, and how the device management can help with Macs, Android…
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…
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…
I’ve seen a few discussions amongst the Australian IT community recently from people who are very anti-Cloud. Aside from privacy concerns (NSA access to data centres not located in Australia) and Internet infrastructure concerns (yes, many businesses still have pitiful Internet speeds), the next favourite objection involves every time a Cloud service has ever has…
I’ve picked up a great book called ‘Stop bitching, start pitching’ by Marty Kellard & Ian Elliot. It’s forced me to really stop and think about how we pitch our managed service product, B.E.S.T. They claim it’s not enough to have the best solution and the best sales message for it. Instead you really have…
