It Takes All Kinds…Well, Four Kinds Anyway
Over the years I’ve had a chance to see a number of different organizations in operation – churches, non-profits, clubs, public companies, and private companies. I’ve found that in all these...
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SLales Quotas
It’s usually unwise to place bets on what the SoftLayer Slales Team can and cannot sell. We will blow the quota out of the water every time. But still, we like to place harmless wagers from time to...
View ArticleDress To Impress
I’ve recently discovered the TV show Mad Men, which is well into its second or third season now, and is just an awesomely good time. If you haven’t seen it or heard about it, the basic premise is this:...
View ArticleThe Case for Task Managment Systems
How many times have you received a “task” through email with no priority or due date attached? Just “Hey, do this…” with nothing more. It leaves you wondering when this particular “task” is supposed to...
View ArticleWhat Does it Cost (Part 2)
Your People and How They Relate to Your Infrastructure If you read my previous blog, “What Does it Cost (Part 1) – The Overview,” you may be interested to delve deeper into the conversation and math...
View ArticleGiving: Better Than Receiving
The holiday season for many of us is a time for giving and reflecting back on what we are thankful for, and this year has been an awesome one for SoftLayer. As a result of that awesomeness, we’ve been...
View ArticleServing and Supporting – Outside the Data Center
On Tuesday, Summer posted “Giving: Better Than Receiving,” a blog about all of the organizations SoftLayer has supported in 2011, and I’m one of the lucky SLayers on the new Charity Committee. We...
View Articleblue dog NETWORK: Tech Partner Spotlight
This is a guest blog from blue dog NETWORK about Hosted Sharepoint. blue dog NETWORK customers are realizing the results that every business wants from their information technology: intelligence,...
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Three Bars for Life
Working at SoftLayer has its perks, and one of my favorite perks to enjoy over the last three years is the ability to use a week and a half of my vacation time to travel over to Hawaii. I normally...
View ArticleWeb Development – JavaScript Packaging
If you think of JavaScript as the ugly duckling of programming languages, think again! It got a bad rap in the earlier days of the web because developers knew enough just to get by but didn’t really...
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