The World According to Mitch

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...

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 cannot be sure when I first started receiving spam in my Inbox, but in all likelihood it was around the time I got my first Internet e-mail account, circa April, 1995.  It was a minor nuisance then, and before long it became a major pain.  Fortunately as spam developed so did anti-spam technology...

Here we are. July has past, and as we look out onto August I see something more than just another month. July has been a bit of a whirlwind for me. I moved from Montreal to Toronto, and though I have accomplished much this past month the reality is I have chiefly been on vacation. I am moved in and my...

This week I encountered a phenomenon that I thought was part of our past. Believe me I did not wax nostalgic for the good old days. I remember in a bygone era it was not uncommon for consultants to install all sorts of software for free... not shareware or freeware mind you, I mean Windows and Office...

One of the advantages I am glad that MITPro has been able to bring to its members is participation in many of the beta programs that Microsoft has running right now. It is truly an exciting time to be an active member of the IT Pro community because of the plethora of new programs coming out - Small...