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My title today is a tribute to Dr. Strangelove. A movie that has great personal meaning.

This week – a new Safegov blog posted, a new IASA blog posted and 7 new blogs on my other two blogs. I do rewrite the ones for safegov considerably as those tend to be more polished thoughts than the ones held here.

I have been thinking about my transition away form the Macintosh computer and then back. I suspect I am not the prime apple customer – although I do tend to look for options and devices that support what I need to do.

Which brings me to the question who is the ideal technology customer? Do the companies want people who are going to string together 3400 USB devices or are they looking for the user that has 1 USB device connected at t a time.

Who is the ideal consumer?

First, (and you probably already guess where this is going) you have those users who ask for net new solutions and therefore contribute to the broader IT Sprawl problem. Then you have users who master a program to the point where when the organization moves on from that solution, they can’t go with the org as easily. Finally you have the people who try and discard technology at a rapid rate. Each of them contributing in their way to the problems of IT Sprawl.

But when we consider them as consumers we now begin to see the pattern. You must upgrade to the latest and greatest version or you are missing out.

The ideal consumer – a play in four parts.

Part 1: someone with money or need for a solution

Part 2: someone willing to part with the money to fill the need

Part 3: someone who can set-up or find someone to set-up the new solution for them.

Part 4: someone willing to buy into the endless upgrades offered by the vendors.

Umm…

I wonder where the problem really is?

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Speeding up file transfers on the home network…

May 27, 2012doandersen

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Moving files around your network shouldn’t be such a pain and yet it is. Windows Home group was supposed to fix some of that problem but frankly it is still there. As much the network itself as it is anything else. For the most part as we head into the modern “cloud” age we don’t think as much about file transfers as we used to.

Once upon a time a file transfer was limited to about 12 meg – or just less than the maximum capacity of a 1.44 meg floppy disk (although by then the disk was no longer floppy).

With the advent of networks we began moving larger files. But you still have limits and reality. Now we move larger and larger files in more and more places and it seems to me that the reality has slipped away.

This weekend I started consolidating a bunch of family videos and began moving them into my family pictures and family video achieves. The reality of the transfer is that it takes forever.

I am also consolidating several document libraries into a single store for future sharing purposes. The reality is that I have to move more than 120 gig of data across my home network. When you consider that most of the traffic is in fact over a wired network not a wi-fi network the total net new transfer shouldn’t take more than 4 hours. Of course it does because of the nature of file transfers.

My new thought pattern is the overall concept of how do we make file transfers better. Bit level replication has been a dream for a number of years. There are several WAN acceleration companies that offer WAN compression but not copying duplicate bits over the WAN.

But the home network remains saturated when you move files around.

Someday…

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Redmonditis

May 25, 2012May 25, 2012doandersen

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Its time for a rant!

First let me explain that while a Microsoft phenomena (Redmonditis) it is in fact a problem many companies have.

Redmonditis defined:

Initially (this was early in my MS career) I felt this disease was simply a “locked in a rainy never go-outdoors-climate” problem. I later realized that it is something many product companies have an issue with around being unable to hear what customers are saying. And by customer’s I mean everyone outside of whatever locale the corporate headquarters or primary development location is.

Interesting note: I have met a couple of ex-softies who have Redmonditis really bad. Also a couple of folks who never worked for Microsoft who have it really really bad.

So what are the symptoms?

Hearing what they want to hear. They have the answer, regardless of your question. The problem is? The answer is to the question they hear not the question or statement you made.
You know the person has it when they start questions with “I don’t know what you experienced but, what you said is wrong.” Then they go off and talk about something you didn’t even talk about. You can’t stop them, because they are always right. So let them run on as long as they want, then pull them aside and correct them.
A new symptom I’ve noticed to this disease that I thought was MS only is they don’t share. Sure they will give you information if asked, but it will always be in a PDF or some other unusable format.
They don’t take guidance well

For many years I thought this was an MS only problem. I guess I should have known it was a communications problem.

Oh well…

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The always on lifestyle…

May 22, 2012doandersen