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A lot of companies sell a lot of different products. But very few companies advocate any of the products that they sell. There is a small, but very noticeable difference between the act of selling and the act of advocating a product. The question then stands, what makes you an advocate of a product [...]

Author’s Note: I am currently a MSP Partner with Calyptix Security, and have been selling their product for about a year now. I am exceedingly happy with my decision to work with Calyptix, and for the sake of transparency thought I should make this point clear to readers that are new to my blog, s[...]

With the ever changing face of social networking it can be a horrid pain to keep up with all the new sites and tools that are out there, but I finally managed to get around to becoming a Twitter member. With as much as I’ve read recently about people finding others through Twitter or business rela[...]

This weekend I’m up in Northern New Jersey attending the SMB Nation East conference, spending a lot of time talking to companies and other consultants. Lots of talking, lots of looking and listening to sales spiels for software and new service solutions. The big topics of the seminar seem to be Mi[...]

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[...]