Entries by Kirill Bensonoff

Is Google Going to be Everyone’s IT Department?

October 2, 2012 in , /by

  Article first published as Is Google Going to be Everyone’s IT Department? on Technorati. You know those computers from the 1950s you’ve seen pictures of? The ones that filled whole walls and ran on punch cards? Well, to the 14-year-old who you’re going to be hiring in 10 years, that’s kind of how the […]

The Long Telecommute to Work

September 28, 2012 /1 Comment/in , /by

A recent survey down by Florida based company Protech showed that 28% of IT professionals listed flex time as their number one perk.  The study goes on to suggest that some employees with take a cut in pay or even their health insurance in order to telecommute. The thinking is that if workers don’t have […]

What is Hyper V?

September 24, 2012 in , , , /by

So you’ve got all this business related data.  It’s important to your business and your customers that this data is safe, secure, and accessible even or especially in a crisis.  What to do, what to do? Well you could set up Hyper V on your Windows Server.  The virtualization system that shipped with the Windows […]

IT and the Customer Experience

September 21, 2012 /1 Comment/in /by

In the world of free enterprise being better than your the competition is the name of the game.  However, how do you measure better?  Price is a major factor, but that’s often out of your control.  Quality of goods is another facet; however, you and competition have access to the same manufactures so that’s wash.  […]

A Few Things to Expect From Jelly Bean 4.1

September 15, 2012 in /by

Jelly Bean sounds like a delicious candy, it is, but it’s also the code name for the Android operating system.  Jelly Bean 4.1 is rumored to come out some time in November and will boast quite a few new features.  If you’re an Android smartphone user you should pay attention. On the most basic level, […]

Will Outage Hurt GoDaddy Where Activists Failed?

September 13, 2012 /1 Comment/in , /by

Hundreds of thousands of website owners and administrators found themselves feverishly refreshing their browsers Monday after GoDaddy’s servers went dark. Now, GoDaddy is fighting to convince the public that the outage was the result of internal problems, not a hack by Anonymous Collective activists. But the bigger question may be, will the annoyance users experienced Monday convince […]

The Economics of Tech Businesses

September 10, 2012 in , /by

Everyone seems to be talking about the economy.  Politicians, school teachers, and even that guy holding up the sign at the street corner are all asking if we are better than we were four years ago.  At the core of that question is faith and belief.  Publilius Syrus once said that, “Everything is worth what […]

What’s the Deal with Cloudstack?

September 9, 2012 in /by

In an attempt to capitalize on the success of Amazon cloud hosting services, several new contenders have sprung up.  Most notably are Openstack and its spin off Cloudstack. Openstack has created a lot of buzz in recent months.  Companies supporting this new cloud resource hosting service include HP, Rackspace, and NASA.  Openstack is an open […]