The World According to Mitch

In 1625 King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden ordered his shipyards to build (among others) a mighty fighting ship called the Vasa. He gave very specific instructions for what he wanted in this ship, how he wanted it outfitted, and made it clear that it should be the mightiest ship on the seas, and it was...

I was sitting in a cafe minding my own business the other day when I overheard a couple of network administrators discussing the benefits of virtualizing their server room.  As this is a topic about which I am quite passionate I was delighted to hear the 'buzz'... the fact that organizations...

For years I have been saying that Small Business Server was the best solution for small businesses that did not have huge IT budgets; it allowed them to take advantage of the same enterprise-level tools such as Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL Server, and SharePoint Server without having to purchase several...

Tuesday evening was the inaugural meeting of the IT Professionals Community of Greater Toronto ( www.itprotoronto.ca ).  The event was hosted at Nexient in Mississauga. The evening's presentation was entitled ' Virtualization Fever... Catch It! '  Although the main focus of the...

I have known Richard Campbell for some time now and every time we meet up we have the same discussion that I should do a segment for RunAs Radio (Once upon a time it was for .NET Rocks Radio) but we just never seemed to follow up. This week-end we caught up on line and decided that he and his co-host...

The SMB Nation 2007 Fall Conference is coming up this week-end (September 29-October 1, 2007) and I am really excited to be a part of it. It is looking to be an incredible array of conferences focused around four separate tracks – the 'Pocket MBA' business track, the Community track, the Technical...

From time to time an event pops onto my radar that I really believe will be exciting to all IT Professionals. The SecTor Security Education Conference is one of those events, bringing some of the world's best IT security professionals to Toronto for two days in November. I have spoken with some of...

Some time ago I was asked to submit an on-line profile for a web site. I did, and adding a small touch of humour at the end, after listing some of my accomplishments and whatnot, I added the line ‘Mitch is not married, has no kids, and has never been to Cleveland.’ Since then I have used a variance of...

One of the great supporters of the IT Pro community in Canada is Rick Claus of Microsoft Canada. Rick has been a great inspiration to me and to my career over the past few years. If I had to point to a single moment in time that has most positively altered the course of my professional life it would...

I have spent so much time concentrating on events like SMB Nation that I almost (I said almost!) forgot to remind my Canadian friends to come out and see me at a user group presentation in their area! I have three upcoming dates confirmed, with a number of others in the planning. If you are in one of...