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Understanding the true Value of a Product

Scott Cover - March 23rd, 2008 | Comments
As I have lamented here previously, we had a Juniper SSG-140 for our Firewall at the office. This wasn’t even remotely close to my choice for the firewall, as personally I would have enjoyed installing a Calyptix AE3000, but the person that was being groomed to be the Network Admin was adamant abo[...]

The Tenacity of the Sales Guy

Scott Cover - March 21st, 2008 | Comments
We are currently in the process of looking for new connectivity and voice providers for our office, due in most part to long standing issues with the current provider. I have never personally been a big fan of ATX, but the list of things that have been wrong are just overwhelming if you ask me. One [...]

Usability versus Unending Feature List

Scott Cover - March 13th, 2008 | Comments
After a recent installation of a Juniper SSG-140 Firewall, I came to question the philosophy behind the development of the product. Don’t get me wrong, the product works, but it feels like the setup is needlessly complicated for the sake of complication. Frankly, I think the biggest problem stems [...]

Why the name of your Vendor isn’t important…

Scott Cover - March 6th, 2008 | Comments
So many technology consultants these days all seem to have the same list of partners littering their websites, with much of it being equivalent to those pieces of flair that employee’s of Chotchkie’s love to flaunt. Everyone is a partner with Symantec, Cisco, Microsoft, and a large list of other[...]