Welcome to our little Dime Store, where we talk a bit about the ol’ work vs. life balance. Whether you think the work / life balance question is truth, myth, fact or fiction, sometimes evaluating and reprioritizing your focus is unavoidable. With any luck, maybe this show’s content can be of help. Hey, stranger things have happened.
After missing a whole week, I finally get it in gear, and bring you another show. This week has some more music from outstanding artists that can be found on the PodSafe Music Network, tips to make your computer experience safer, and one of my soon-to-be-famous rants. Please enjoy!
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This week I briefly recount my trip to the San Francisco LinuxWorld Expo, and discuss what that experience may say about the commoditization of technology infrastructure, and the maturity of the Linux market on the whole. Some more awesome music from the PodSafe Music Network is mixed in for your listening pleasure. Please enjoy!
Taking a breather from hardcore “techie” stuff this week. Instead, I share some rant producing tid-bits from the news and current events, and some really cool PodSafe Music from some of my favorite female vocalists.
As a follow-up to WPF #4 on hosted services, we come up with good questions to ask your potential service providers before signing a contract, how to make the final xSP decision, details to to watch for in the contract, and 5 xSPs that I have used with positive results (Disclaimer: these are not endorsements for every situation. Do your own due diligence, or work with technologists to match your needs to xSPs).
This week we tackle to topic of hosted services…what they are, the business value of using them, the challenges you might face, and how they may fit into your organization, all to set up next week’s show where we take a deeper dive into how to evaluate and choose the hosted service providers that best fit your business. I also share with you my 5 favorite podcasts available at www.podshow.com, and throw in a couple of cool songs from music.podshow.com.
Got a burning question about an IT topic related to your business? I think there’s a ointment for that…but you can also email me at with your questions, comments, or ideas for future shows.
If the phrase “the third time’s a charm” has any merit, you have to check-out this week’s show! I do my best to de-mystify the concepts and tools surrounding the “virtualization” craze, and try to provide some insight into the business value of server consolidation using this “very cool” technology. Oh, and there’s some more hilarious music.
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In our second podcast, I include a little fun music, some follow-up from show #1, and then dive right into how one can painlessly “explore” Open Souce applications that will run on your Windows machine.
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