Tag Archives: hosted services

Creating an IT business in the USA, Episode 2: Live Your convictions!

I’ve done it! I’ve successfully created a Single Member LLC in the great state of Arizona! w00t!!!1! Okay… sooooo… now what? If you recall in the first part of the first episode of this series over on my old blog and the second part of the first episode posted on this blog, my direction when [...]

Creating an IT business in the USA, Episode 1: Stop… rewind!

In my previous posts concerning my efforts at starting an IT business in my new home state of Arizona (Episode 0, part 1 and part 2), I had decided that a simple sole proprietorship was the way to go. However, I began to reconsider that course of action when I realized the liabilities involved in [...]

Corporate IT – More Suggestions of the Changing Role of the SysAdmin

The Corporate Executive Board (CEB) has released yet another article that suggests we IT people will have to adapt or risk being disappointed when the inevitable changes take place. The article, published on BusinessWeek.com, predicts that within the next five years a major shift in corporate IT will be taking place. It’s already happening now. [...]

Avoiding SysAdmin Obsolescence; The Only Thing We Have to Fear is Telepathic Robot Drones

A recent article at queue.acm.org piqued my interest. Titled “Overspecialization can be the kiss of death for sysadmins”, a budding SysAdmin asked “What is the biggest threat to systems administrators?”, specifically referring to the SysAdmin profession. The answer was a 14 paragraph monologue that, in my interpretation, was very good advice but answered a completely [...]

Verizon Plunges Into the Mist with new Cloud Services – What Does This Show About a SysAdmin’s Future?

Network Computing recently reported that Verizon has entered the cloud services market with the help of a McAfee backend. Apparently in June of 2010 Verizon SMB customers with 50Mbps or less connections will be given free e-mail and Web security powered by McAfee’s MXLogic service that Verizon itself hosts in their own datacenters. But that’s [...]