Submitted by Gene Fay on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 10:25am
The chart below was just put out by StorageNewsletter. It shows how far hard drive capacity has come since 1956. Having sold storage for most of my 18 year career this trend is pretty interesting. When I first joined EMC, in 1998 I remember our CTO telling me that a 1 TB was going to happen. We were selling 25GB and 50GB drives. I thought he was crazy, but he was correct. Next up a 5TB drive.
Submitted by Adam Sell on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 11:58am
Winter is at last beginning to release its grip, the crocuses are poking through the mulch, and baseball teams are turning double plays around Florida’s and Arizona’s diamonds. It’s nearly that time of year when you look at the clutter you’ve amassed in the past 12 months and reorganize it.
Submitted by Adam Sell on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 11:59am
Yesterday was Leap Day, that extra special day every four years when everybody wisecracks about people who are only turning 8 or 9. (Hey, I know a few Leap Day Preteens myself, so I’m not immune.)
On a practical level, Leap Day really just means the rent is due one day later, your paycheck shows up one day later, and the snowiest month of the year (at least in these parts) lasts one day longer. That’s the pessimist’s view, anyway.
The optimist says, “hey look, we get an extra 24 hours to play with.” What can we do with it?
Submitted by Adam Sell on Tue, 02/28/2012 - 11:56am
One of the most common complaints I hear about good social media etiquette and technique is that it’s too hard or that it takes too long. I can respect someone who says they don’t have the resources to do it effectively, but I don’t believe the “it’s too hard” excuse for a second.
In the last couple months, I’ve had several conversations with other IT industry executives about the direction that sales is moving for their businesses. Some of them think enterprise sales is dying, and they haven’t yet shifted their resources to the inside sales model. Others think there will always be room for enterprise sales folks, and there’s no point to the inside sales team.
Submitted by Adam Sell on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 2:55pm
Here’s a taste of the new partner onboarding program we’ve developed:
There are three main ways you can sell Powered By Nine®: as an a la carte offering, as an add-on to a single product or service, or as a suite of services. Think of it as one, two, many.
Submitted by Adam Sell on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 3:17pm
(I wrote a post about how you should get your loved one online backup for Valentine’s Day, but then I decided that was too trite even for me, so I quickly edited the post to make it, well, not Valentine’s Day related.)
Submitted by Adam Sell on Fri, 02/10/2012 - 1:35pm
No, this post has nothing to do with Madonna, I just needed a title.
A couple weeks ago, I was forwarded the new magazine published by our organizational partner ACRBO. It’s pretty slick, and it’s got some good insights and information for the computer repair business owners that the ACRBO serves.
And most notably, the magazine is published digitally (in addition to physically). It’s a smart move; in an age of e-readers, tablets and smartphones, the ability to get this content digitally will help expand the audience.
Submitted by Adam Sell on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 11:48am
(Don’t tell anyone, but my penchant for musical theatre is coming through here – the title of this post comes from the song Friendship, from Cole Porter’s classic musical, Anything Goes.)
In the last couple months, I’ve had several conversations with other IT industry executives about the direction that sales is moving for their businesses. Some of them think enterprise sales is dying, and they haven’t yet shifted their resources to the inside sales model. Others think there will always be room for enterprise sales folks, and there’s no point to the inside sales team.
