We have all been talking about Microsoft’s software plus services play. Hosted exchange, hosted sharepoint, hosted collaboration – all of these make sense as an extension of Microsoft into a managed services / hosted services model.
What is a bit of a surprise is to find Microsoft studying the profile of managed service providers and customers. [...]

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This from an email sent from a friend of mine in our industry, specifically pointing to the announcement of Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing initiative.
Isn’t that the truth?!
Combine the changes in the economy with the changes in our industry – both in terms of technology and in business models – and you may feel like you [...]

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I presented my vision for the future of IT services and our company to the employees of Everon today.  I think it went well, but there were obvious signs of anxiety, including the following question:
“Based on what you just told us, I’m concerned that we may not have job security in the future.  Will we [...]

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This was the headline of an October 6th article written by the folks over at Gartner. I believe it is true that everyone is bracing for an overall slowdown in the economy, if they are smart, but for the IT industry an economic downturn can be something to take advantage of as more businesses look [...]

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I’m sure many of you have heard of the recent presentation from Sequoia Capital to the companies it has invested in telling them that this economic downturn is for real, and that they had better act like if they hoped to survive.  I had not seen it myself, however, until Michael Beecher from CoreIP Systems [...]

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