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Getting Ready For The MSP

  • Posted on November 30, 2015
  • by Alan Berkson

They say a clean desk is the sign of a sick mind. At least I’d like to believe that’s true, considering the sorry state of mine. And while I can usually find what I’m looking for in the chaos of…

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  • IBM MSP

The Weakest Point of Most IT Organizations

  • Posted on November 27, 2015November 30, 2015
  • by Alan Berkson

There are many arguments for and against outsourcing and managed services. However, there is one compelling reason — and perhaps the weakest point in most IT organizations — that is not often discussed. Many decades in technology have shown me…

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  • IBM MSP

Farewell to Windows 2003 Server, Hello Cloud

  • Posted on July 16, 2015October 6, 2015
  • by Alan Berkson

Did you feel it? We passed a milestone in infrastructure technology, a vestige of our 20th century infrastructure roots. When it comes to technology, what we hear in the media is often not a reflection of what is going on…

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  • IBM Midsize Business

iPhone Sits on the Cusp of Consumer and Enterprise – Revisited

  • Posted on August 1, 2014August 1, 2014
  • by Alan Berkson

It’s hard to imagine a world without iPhones, but there was a time when RIM ruled the roost, Blackberry’s were ubiquitous enough to warrant the moniker “Crackberry,” and Blackberry Enterprise Server was the standard for enterprise mobility. IT departments dished…

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  • IBM Midsize Business

How Do You Eat A Software Implementation?

  • Posted on May 1, 2014May 1, 2014
  • by Alan Berkson

How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. When it comes to software implementation projects, cloud changes things. Not everything, but a lot of things. Beyond the obvious impact on the need for a level of technology…

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  • IBM Midsize Business

The Institutional Technology Gap

  • Posted on October 24, 2013October 25, 2013
  • by Alan Berkson

I was watching Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone do an interview on a morning talk show recently. Just before the break they asked him about what he thought about the much maligned healthcare.gov debut. The response from Biz: “I think they should…

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  • IBM Midsize Business

Where Oh Where Is My Cloud Middleware?

  • Posted on September 28, 2013January 4, 2017
  • by Alan Berkson

As I wrote in Who’s Dictating Cloud App’s in the Enterprise?, the “there’s an app for that” culture has trained us to find our own technology solutions to our problems. While it gives consumers a wonderful variety of solutions, this culture creates…

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  • IBM Midsize Business

Does Moore’s Law Apply To People?

  • Posted on December 20, 2012May 18, 2013
  • by Alan Berkson

So Microsoft is changing the way they license users. Interesting to see that perhaps the balance of power has returned to the users. Software licensing has always been a strange animal. I recall well my days as an IT integrator and…

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  • IBM Midsize Business

3 Infrastructure Reasons The Cloud Makes Sense For Application Development

  • Posted on October 25, 2012October 25, 2012
  • by Alan Berkson

I don’t often blog on specific products or services but I when I recently saw the new partnership between IBM and Cloudshare for agile development I had an epiphany. What caught my attention was not the specific features of the individual products…

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  • IBM Midsize Business

10 IT Security Tips for Midsize Business

  • Posted on August 17, 2012August 17, 2012
  • by Alan Berkson

I recently asked the following question on the IBM for Midsize Businesses group on Linkedin as a basis for discussion and a means to crowdsource some tips and best practices for IT security: Security attacks often arrive unannounced, but a…

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