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The Gartner Grind
Being an IT analyst is tough work! You need to stay awake through gigabytes of power-point every day.
Additionally, if the person making the presentation is a paying client who is launching a new product or service, you’ll typically also have a lot of polite moments where you go “Great Idea, but haven’t companies A, B, E & K done something somewhat similar before?”. Typically, the accompanying thought stream is “Yeah, Yeah, tell me something I don’t already know – so I can stop pretending to be excited”
When we made an analyst/media briefing ppt for … Read the rest
Tags: analyst, Carbonite, dropbox, gartner, Mozy, Online Backup, Vembu Home
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Carbonite (and Mozy’s) Achilles heel
Online backup service provider Carbonite has been in the news for some time now. They were recently in the news for the wrong reasons. Hot on the heels of the Belkin fiasco , “biased reviews without disclosing affiliations” are getting a hard rap on the knuckles!
The objective of this post is not to debate on companies’ marketing tactics (that too from 2 years ago – I’m not sure if that’s really relevant now) but to point your attention to something else that’s indeed relevant…
Sometimes, we have a VAR/MSP who uses StoreGrid to offer online backup services to … Read the rest
Tags: Bekin, Carbonite, Mozy, online backup service, Pogue, support
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