The Stroots

As a CIO I am charged with delivering high quality, low cost IT services to our business units. I know what it costs to build data centers, buy servers and storage and manage them – support, backup, disaster recovery and patching. I know what it costs to buy electricity and network bandwidth, etc.

So when I was setting up this blog I found that I could buy services that are dirt cheap. Frankly, I am still astounded at what I could get for less than $50 per year or <$5 a month!

2 years of hosting, and a domain registration for $65 USD*

· Unlimited diskspace and bandwidth

· Unlimited MySQL Databases

· Unlimited email accounts

· Unlimited Domains hosted (I have two)

This is the type of service and scalability that I’d like to offer our corporate clients.

via The Wandering CIO.

There you have it Apple fans, Apple’s final Macworld keynote has come and gone. As expected, Steve Jobs was nowhere to be found - indeed due to health reasons as many had dismissed as false until Jobs’ recent letter was issued on Monday. Phill Schiller had some pretty big shoes to fill but he did a great job and even threw in a joke or two. As for the announcements, the only surprise was iLife ‘09 and we think it was a pretty good surprise in fact. Apple looks to have made some great updates to its suite and we can’t wait to upgrade and start playing with all the new features. As far as the three other big announcements - iWork ‘09, the new 17″ MacBook Pro and DRM-free iTunes - leaks did an ok job of covering each one to some extent. In terms of the massive list of rumors that weren’t made a reality today, this year’s Macworld had more rumors surrounding it than ever before so most were obviously destined to be squashed. We would have liked to have seen a refreshed iMac and Mac Mini, case manufacturers would have liked to have seen an iPhone nano and Apple’s board would have liked to have seen a more sustained and significant spike in Apple shares today. Hey, you can’t win ‘em all…

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