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IT Professionals Get The Nudge Toward Cloud From Microsoft

2010-04-24T18:18:00.000-07:00

By Marty Nuckles

Part 1: Homework
When I got the request to review the article “Microsoft pushes cloud computing”, the first thing I did was to make sure that I had clear understanding of the term “cloud computing”. I set out to make sure that I knew the difference between it and other ideas such as “Software as a Service”, “Grid Computing”, “Platform as a Service”, “Scalable, Virtualized, Business Applications” and a dozen other variations on the theme. As I soon discovered, there isn’t much steak or sizzle here. There isn’t anything here that I haven’t seen or heard before. A motley crew of vendors, marketers and others, each pushing their technology, that’s about it. And, most certainly, there is no clear definition or technology standard here.
A few cynics have called it the “marketing phrase de jour”. One of the more interesting cynical reviews is “Why Cloud Computing is for the birds" by Mike Elgan and I found it funny that Cloud Computing Journal has an article titled, “21 Experts define cloud computing”. Why does it take 21 experts to define it? It reminds me of those light bulb jokes we used to tell.

I came away from my homework with several conclusions. The first one is: this is an idea in its infancy. It is closer to a marketing banner than a solid technology or a foundation for long term IT planning and deployment. Most IT departments and IT planners should be commended for casting a skeptical eye on the cloud computing hype and the cloud computing marketing efforts of hardware and software vendors.

Part 2: Building my perspective
Does this mean that cloud computing should simply be consigned to the trash bin reserved for marketing hype? No, it doesn’t. There are some legitimate issues that it addresses and in time in may offer real solutions to some thorny IT problems. We have all lived through software and hardware upgrades that set us back weeks and months. We have all lived through the problems of systems management, systems configuration and systems security. Being able to pass those concerns off to someone else or something else, such as the cloud, is an appealing proposition. If it saved time and money, that would be even more attractive. I would imagine that we are in a situation similar to the one our grandparents might have experienced when the telephone system moved towards standardization in early part of the twentieth century. It might have seemed like a loss of control and a risk, but the benefits of self-service dialing and the reliability of the utility proved out. Ditto for the change from rotary dial to digital phones. That lead to my second conclusion: give the infant time to grow up and try to imagine what might be possible. After all, the switch from rotary phones to digital made it possible for me to get my bank balance at 4 AM while I was on a business trip to Philadelphia and when I needed three more extensions for my home phone, I just went down to Costco, bought a base station with three remote unit and in a couple of minutes, I had phones in every room that I wanted.

I’m still trying to work out the target market for cloud computing and that remains hazy (pardon the pun). Cloud computing seems to appeal to the “big boys” first and foremost. They’ve got the biggest needs for systems management, scalability as well as the biggest need to save money. I can’t see the appeal for small and medium sized IT shops. Nor can I see the appeal for people who believe that their data is their most valuable asset. There are some pretty serious data privacy, data security and data reliability issues here. HIPPA is the first example that comes to mind. As an IT planner, I would need a lot of proof that these issues had been solved and that there were no vulnerabilities before I moved my company’s IT infrastructure to a cloud based solution.

I would be interested in hearing your opinions and if you have them, I would like to hear about experiences in implementing cloud computing.

Related Link:

http://searchwindowsserver.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid68_gci1510373,00.html

Scientists Still Learning to How To Count Stars

2010-03-26T16:22:00.000-07:00

By John Duckgeischel

According to a recent article in Discovery News astronomers "may have underestimated the tally of galaxies in some parts of the universe by as much as 90 percent." It turns out that astronomers use ultraviolet light signatures as a means of counting stars; however they have found that this may not be the most accurate measurement method. The article goes on to say that In the case of very distant, old galaxies, the telltale light may not reach Earth as it is blocked by interstellar clouds of dust and gas -- and, as a result, these galaxies are missed by the map-makers." This gross miscalculation may cause doubts about the integrity of data gathered by scientists for major scientific theories such as global warming and others.

In another space related story, NASA has given credit to an amateur who has captured photographs of space which have captured the attention of the U.S federal space agency. From the UK, Robert Harrison made a device at home which can orbit the earth 20 miles above it surface and take pictures of the edge of space with incredible clarity. NASA was so impressed it made an effort to contact the father of three children. Harrison made the device for only $815. NASA admitted it would have had to spend millions of dollars to accomplish the same feat.

P2P File Sharings Has Its Risks

2010-02-25T12:41:00.000-08:00

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing has opened up a significant breach in data security. The breach is so serious that the FTC has taken steps to notify hundreds of US businesses, of all sizes, that confidential information is freely circulating on P2P networks. This breach gives all sorts of unauthorized users access to sensitive and confidential information. For example: Jon Leibowitz, FTC Chairman, pointed out that “…health-related information, financial records, and drivers' license and social security numbers …” are visible on these P2P networks.
The existence of the data security breach underscores the issues of identity theft and fraud. The breach also underscores the legal issues and business liabilities. Closing the breach is imperative. Tony Bradley in his article “How to Stop P2P” data breaches” offers 3 sound ideas along with recommendations for closing the breach. Pay heed to Tony’s recommendations and implement them right away! Business data, especially confidential data, is an asset. It deserves even more protection than a physical asset. Lock it down!

In brief, Tony’s recommendations are:
1. Beware the Software. Remember where the P2P software comes from and remember that often it not built with the same concern for data security as commercial software. Additionally, the software can contain malware, viruses and the like. System performance issues and network performance issues can ensue.
2. Watch What You Share. The default share folder and sharing options can expose data to the world.
3. Just Don't Use It. There are legitimate uses for P2P networks. However, there is arguably no legitimate reason for accessing a P2P file-sharing system from a business network. In addition to the potential system and network performance issues, improperly configured and inadequately secured networks open you up to attack and compromise, or inadvertently exposing sensitive data.
As a final illustration, if you don’t believe this is an important business issue, then you may want to leave your wallet and credit cards on the front seat of your car and while you are at it, leave the windows down, the door unlocked and the keys in the ignition. I’m sure some unauthorized user will appreciate it.

The Risks of Using P2P File Sharing

2010-02-25T11:14:00.000-08:00

Written by Marty Nuckles

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing has opened up a significant breach in data security. The breach is so serious that the FTC has taken steps to notify hundreds of US businesses, of all sizes, that confidential information is freely circulating on P2P networks. This breach gives all sorts of unauthorized users access to sensitive and confidential information. For example: Jon Leibowitz, FTC Chairman, pointed out that “…health-related information, financial records, and drivers' license and social security numbers …” are visible on these P2P networks.
The existence of the data security breach underscores the issues of identity theft and fraud. The breach also underscores the legal issues and business liabilities. Closing the breach is imperative. Tony Bradley in his article “How to Stop P2P” data breaches” offers 3 sound ideas along with recommendations for closing the breach. Pay heed to Tony’s recommendations and implement them right away! Business data, especially confidential data, is an asset. It deserves even more protection than a physical asset. Lock it down!

In brief, Tony’s recommendations are:
1. Beware the Software. Remember where the P2P software comes from and remember that often it not built with the same concern for data security as commercial software. Additionally, the software can contain malware, viruses and the like. System performance issues and network performance issues can ensue.
2. Watch What You Share. The default share folder and sharing options can expose data to the world.
3. Just Don't Use It. There are legitimate uses for P2P networks. However, there is arguably no legitimate reason for accessing a P2P file-sharing system from a business network. In addition to the potential system and network performance issues, improperly configured and inadequately secured networks open you up to attack and compromise, or inadvertently exposing sensitive data.
As a final illustration, if you don’t believe this is an important business issue, then you may want to leave your wallet and credit cards on the front seat of your car and while you are at it, leave the windows down, the door unlocked and the keys in the ignition. I’m sure some unauthorized user will appreciate it.

“This is like Déjà vu, all over again” -- Yogi Berra

2010-02-15T09:12:00.000-08:00

Written by By Marty Nuckles

Yogi’s quote was the first thing that went through my mind as I was reading Paul Ruben’s article titled, “Google vs. Microsoft -- You Say You Want a Revolution”. Déjà vu, because getting huge numbers of small and medium sized businesses to buy the latest, hottest technology was a goal we repeatedly chased for years. When I was working in the hardware end of the business and when I was working in the software end of the business we tried simplifying. We tried bundling, partnering and embedding. We tried making it sexy and we tried making it cheap. Some of the technologies became market successes and others remained stuck in their niches. But overall, the massive tidal wave of adoption and subsequent buying never seemed to come. Why didn’t it happen?

In his article, Paul said, “By the end of this year, when ChromeOS is due to released … Google will be ready to offer enterprises its own take on the single vendor solution: Users will be able to use low-cost netbooks (and maybe desktop machines?) or smartphones running Google software to access data stored in a Google-managed cloud and manipulate it with apps running in Google data centers. It will be as inexpensive as chips and need very little in the way of patching or updating by IT departments.” Later in the article, Paul went on to ask, Will it happen?
Will individuals and small business be ready? Will they adopt the vision?
I asked myself can Google and the Chrome OS generate enough momentum, enthusiasm and motivation for me to replace the Microsoft products, the web services and the applications I use every day? Maybe they can. Chrome has become my browser of choice. I’m taking a wait and see attitude on the rest of it.

I went on to ask myself, can Google and Chrome get the $25M/yr businesses motivated to adopt the vision and buy? What about the $150M/yr businesses? And in those questions, I began to see an answer. The answer is: it may happen if there are compelling reasons for a small business to do so. Low-cost netbooks and smartphones, along with vendor managed applications are not compelling reasons, nor are the Google name and cloud computing. Just as an experiment, go say the words, “vendor managed, stateless device, anywhere access, cloud computing” to any owner of a $100M/yr business and watch his or her eyes glaze over. To a small business owner: better, faster, cheaper are compelling reasons, so are: quicker quotes to customers, fewer errors on billing, accurate tracking and faster delivery. Quicker access to the web is not high on their list of requirements; neither is reducing start up time. Spending money on new smartphones, netbooks or vendors is likely to be viewed as a significant cost and the perception that a changeover is required would likely be viewed as disruptive, regardless of how it plays out in actual practice.

Give me the net, net!

1. Take a good look at yourself and your business structure. If you see yourself as an aggressive and leading edge small business, then go for it! Evaluate the technology and build it into your plans to innovate. Use the speed of any-where, any-when access to push your company. You could be the next Under-Armour. Lower IT costs could provide money for investments in other areas. The same is true for devices and web-access that would allow you to “do a deal on the spot”.
2. If you are a conservative business, then evaluate the technology and look at your IT current costs. Would you recognize any costs savings or operational improvements by adopting the Google computing model? If so, develop plans for phasing them in over time. Use the cost savings as investment for further improvement and measure, measure, measure!
3. If none of this makes any sense to you, then ignore the whole thing and wait 5 years. If the Google model fails to catch on, you won’t have spent anything. If it does catch on, you’ll have enough historical information to evaluate it and you can make your plans from there.
4. If you’re selling technology, then learn to talk about the current problems it solves. Learn to talk about what could be done in the future. Above all else, learn how to construct and present a compelling business case that someone actually cares about. Make sure you can prove it too!
Final thoughts

I am in favor of simplifying things. The easier the access to the services and applications that we need daily, the better! The simpler and more transparent the access, the better. Fast access is great. Ditto for universal access and stateless devices.
I believe this computing model provides an excellent platform for more effective and efficient businesses.
I believe the potential inherent in this model will become more and more obvious as the members of the wired generation move into the small business arena and as they achieve success.
Competition is a good thing. It forces innovation.

Larry Ellison’s Dreams Come True

2010-01-28T09:07:00.000-08:00

Oracle is officially moving forward with integrating its latest acquisition, Sun Microsystems. Oracle’s CEO, Larry Ellison, usually get what he wants, and even if there huddles to overcome such are questions from EU about MySQL. One only has to look at the acquisition of PeopleSoft in 2005. After being rebuffed multiple times, it is now part of Oracle. Since 2005, Oracle has made 52 acquisitions, including BEA systems, Siebel Systems, and the aforementioned PeopleSoft. With the Sun Microsystems acquisition complete, it is now providing a glimpse into the future. Today, Oracle is holding an event for customers which lays out the strategic vision on how Sun’s servers, storage, operating system and software will complement the database and application middleware that are the company’s signature products.

"We've been talking about this for years," Oracle president Charles Phillips stated during the presentation. "We've extended it down to more and more layers." "One upside of this transaction taking so long to close was that it gave us plenty of time to work on the details," he stated as he went on. "We have a complete system that's engineered to work together and be delivered faster across domains." "The breakthroughs will be the interaction between the stacks," Phillips added. "With separate vendors developing products at each level, it's very hard to get engineers to work together. It just never happens. It's hard to get them to work together even when they work at the same company. Ask IBM. They know."

In fiscal 2011, Oracle will increase its research and development spending from $2.8 billion to $4.3 billion. It plans on making a sizeable investment in Sun’s Solaris operating system, the Java program language as well as the SPARC chipsets and servers. "We're going to spend money to re-energize the key assets at Sun, the products," Phillips stated. Oracle is planning on hiring 2000 engineering and sales professionals offsetting, if only partially, the layoffs it planned when the deal was first announced.

Oracle has combined both its hardware and software in one stack, which moves it into the category of system provider similar to HP and Cisco. Oracle claims to have the best comprehensive offering in the industry. "There's no other company that can claim that they're in the complete systems business," Phillips said. "We're in all these categories and engineer across all of them. They couldn't do it from a coordination perspective and simply don't have components."

Sometimes history repeats itself as today’s Oracle somewhat resembles the old IBM from the 1960’s. "It is odd that the computer industry ships all these separate parts and expects customers to assemble them," Larry Ellison said in an interview with The New York Times earlier. "You will now be buying this complete system, and don’t have to hire IBM or someone else to assemble it for you.

Related Link:
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/features/article.php/3861176/Oracle-Takes-a-Page-From-IBM.htm

New Study: Texting While Driving Is Dangerous

2009-12-22T13:54:00.001-08:00

The University of Utah has now confirmed what every one has known for quite a while. Texting while driving is dangerous. The study provides information on how distracting texting can be. The study indicates that texting can be six times more distracting than talking on a cell phone while driving.

The University of Utah study showed that the distractions associated with texting resulted in delayed braking and reaction times. Perhaps this study is useful since so many people are texting. Last year over 1 trillion texts were sent. It seems however people need to use more common sense and not attempt to do multiple things at the same time, especially when one of them is driving. Since driving a car which weighs 2000 to 4000 pounds, at normal driving speeds, creates a potential lethal weapon, it would seem that not texting while driving should be a rule of thumb that everyone would naturally follow. Evidently not, as more and more elected representives look at new laws and regulations to prohibit such activity. Many states have banned the activity, while many others are exploring creating new laws. Overall I think we need to promote a society where people take responsibilty for safe behavior rather than creating new laws for every circumstance. Unfortunately this maybe a necessary evil in today' society. Perhaps this is a sign of the times.

The Risks of Cloud Computing

2009-11-24T10:39:00.000-08:00

The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) published its Cloud Computing Risk Assessment Report which derived data from Educational Organizations, Industry Experts and Government Organizations. The biggest risk identified was likelihood of being locked into a cloudbased solution, with many companies not offering the tools, standardized formats or procedures to provide data and service portability. This makes the task of moving back to an in-house architecture or a to another service provider difficult at best. The second risk area of concern is the inability to isolate failures due to the shared resource approach by cloud service providers. Failure protocols which separate storage, memory and routing are often not offered in the cloud computing environment, making fault isolation difficult if not impossible with an attack on the operating system. The third risk area identified is a compromised management interface which is accessible via the internet, provided a larger risk of exposure than a traditional in-house model. The report provides some serious food for thought as companies look at their list of pros vs. cons when deciding on their computing strategy.
Related Link:
http://web2.sys-con.com/node/1198718

10 Things I Hate About My Wireless Carrier

2009-11-05T20:35:00.000-08:00

As AT&T responds with their legal team to recent Verizon television ads that make their 3G coverage look bad, there are still plenty of things to dislike about your chosen wireless carrier. For 2009 spotty coverage is still a huge problem in America, even worse if you would like to use all of the data features of your new smart phone. Want to change carriers? Better think twice. The penalties are stiff for leaving your wireless contract earlier. To add injury to the insult, Verizon doubled its early termination fees this week.

Let’s examine the the quality of the phones offered. Unfortunately, except for iPhone, most of the mobile phones offered don’t deliver the performance as advertised. The 3G networks have limited coverage and you still get the privilege of paying a $20 to $30 per month up charge. Theoretically competition is supposed to drive down prices; however there must not really be much competition because prices remain sky high. Even texting costs a lot considering the limited bandwidth that text really requires from the carriers. Spotty coverage with dropped calls stills happens routinely and limited 3G coverage, and dead zones today’s norm which should not be the standard for a supposedly mature industry. The carriers in Europe and Asian provide a much higher level of service. Unfortunately for Americans, improved service is not just around the corner. Even though the iPhone is starting to have a little competition from Motorola’s Droid and of course the Palm Pre, the fact is that the network behind them is still pretty weak. It seems the carriers would rather invest in snappy ads instead of investing the infrastructure itself.

Strategic Moves in Technology

2009-10-11T21:35:00.000-07:00

Microsoft strategic decision making process is puzzling at best. Once upon a time Microsoft woke to find out that the internet train had left the station when they didn't notice. After Bill Gates "woke up" the troops, Microsoft responded with the Internet Explorer browser and the launched the "internet friendly" version of Microsoft Office. Fast forward to 2009. After capturing over 95% of the browser market, Microsoft market share has shrunk to approximately two-thirds. Meanwhile Mozilla's Firefox and Google's Chrome keep gaining market share consistently each quarter. Microsoft has not been totally asleep as it launches the Bing search tool and signs a deal with Yahoo. So far Bing has made a dent, although it is a small dent in the overall search market. For it's part, Google has launched Google Doc's which are OK but not great...yet. However, they could still prove to be a viable thorn-in-the-side low cost alternative to Microsoft Office. Although it can be said Microsoft has some moves of its own to be aggressive in the internet security space as it has recently launched a free version of Microsoft Security Essentials, which is enough to ruffle the feathers of McAfee and Symantec.

When we look at Google Wave, a comprehensive communication too, which has previewed this year, we see a very innovative product which is well regarded by the industry with a lot of potential. When we look at Microsoft's equivalent.....well lets just say that Microsoft is still are trying to figure out how Google came up with this product.

Two big growth areas on the horizon seem to be mobile communicating/computing and cloud computing. For cloud computing Microsoft has been making moves to fully participate, on mobile computing, not so much. Microsoft has been investing heavily in software for cloud computing and in building datacenter hubs containing huge compute and storage infrastructure. Google is heavily investing in this space as well as virtually all of the other technology industry heavy weights. Microsoft's effort to secure a place in the mobileOS market seem half-hearted at best. For its part, Google Android is beginning to carve out a substantial part of the mobile OS marketplace. According to Gartner, Google Android is projected to have 14.5 percent of the mobile OS marketplace by 2012. The Gartner 2012 projection will put Symbian in first place with 39 percent share , with Android in the 2nd place and iPhone OS in 3^rd. The the projections seem to indicate that Windows Mobile from Microsoft will be most likely struggling to stay in the game by 2012. Stay tuned as the giant chess game continues.

Microsoft’s Bing Gains More Market Share In August

2009-09-22T17:11:00.000-07:00

Well it may not be earth shattering news, but Microsoft’s Bing went from an 8.9 percent of the search market place in July to 9.3 percent in August. It has gained market share for 4 consecutive months in a row. The current data shows Google at 64.6 percent, Yahoo at 19.3 percent, Microsoft at 9.3 percent Ask at 3.9 percent and AOL at 3 percent. Google actually gave up a meager .1 percent to Bing. Google may not be losing sleep at this point, however if this trend continues it could prove to be especially troublesome.

Microsoft is planning on providing a new release twice a year with the latest technology enhancements. The latest Bing release was previewed to employees at the Microsoft annual meeting. The comments were heard to be very favorable. Google is not known for sitting on its hands, so it will be interesting to watch what kind of changes makes in its next release.

The Law, Privacy and Cloud Computing

2009-09-16T08:59:00.000-07:00

The rapid advancement of Cloud Computing has the government scrambling to evolve privacy protection laws to keep them relevant. If the laws do not keep pace with technology, the constitution protections are seriously jeopardized. Unfortunately the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) was written more twenty years ago and pre-dates the internet. Many legal experts are advocating serious reform of the ECPA to provide clear guidelines to service providers about all the data that is in their cloud infrastructure.

The popularity of cloud computing resources being used by businesses and consumers for storing photos, e-mail, private data, and medical records is growing as it provides a low cost alternative. The security of this information may be jeopardized as a subpoena for e-mail can be served to a service provider and the owner of the e-mail may never be notified. As a result the government and attorneys are utilizing the vast amount of data and information stored on the cloud for purposes of their lawsuits and investigations. A single subpoena can provide the potential to gather information from millions of users. The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution affords protection against unreasonable search and seizure for houses and papers. As technology has changed how information is shared and stored, it is time to extend the protections afford under the Constitution to provide appropriate level of protection to digital information.

Reliable Cell Phone Service In 2009?

2009-09-04T18:14:00.000-07:00

How hard can it be to find a reliable cell phone service provider in America in 2009? Well unfortunately, it is harder that you would think it would be. AT&T first did a prototype way back in 1977. Lots of time has passed, so you would think with technological advances it should be perfect by now. Not quite.

In a survey published in 2008, by Consumer Reports, it looked at the top 20 metropolitan areas and included responses from 47629 readers. It says that cell service typically gets the lowest ratings of any services offered with "fewer than half of the respondents were completely or very satisfied with their cell phone service." Verizon took the survey lead with a meager 70% approval rating, followed by closely by T-Mobile. AT&T came in third, followed by Sprint coming in last place of the major cell phone service providers.

Service quality varies widely by carrier and metropolitan area. Take California for example. In California T-mobile and Sprint are known for spotty service throughout the state. Verizon is strong in the San Francisco Bay Area and San Diego, but mediocre in Los Angeles and elsewhere. AT&T is strong in Los Angeles, Sacramento with just OK but not great service in the Bay Area and San Diego.

Check the local reputation with your friends and associates before signing up for a long term contract. MetroPCS provides low cost service in select major metropolitan areas; however do wander too far if you want to stay in the service area. It is best to stay with the major four service providers if you live in rural areas. Some carriers such as T-Mobile, provide detail coverage map which may be helpful as a rough guideline, but check with your neighbors just to be sure. I live two blocks from a major freeway in California and I was amazed to find out that my service provider, a major carrier, provided no service at that location. Now that my contract has expired, I am ready to make my move. Good luck and good hunting.

Making the Case for Unified Communication In Today's Economy

2009-09-01T11:42:00.000-07:00

Although Bernanke has stated that the economy is on the "cusp" of recovery, the harsh reality of day to day business in 2009 puts a lot of pressure corporate IT budgets. Unified Communications (UC) offers real productivity gains; however IT managers face the daunting task of making the case that the spending for unified communications really justifies the benefits especially with the current state of the economy. One problem is identifying the real cost base line for non-integrated solutions that are already deployed, along with the support required for these services. It is common for IT managers to under estimate the cost of the current solution because it is difficult to gather all of the information on the separate tools, processes, and support costs.

Some IT managers have found it beneficial to present information on building a unified communication solution as part an overall effort to provide business process automation. UC solutions that encompass the breadth of an enterprise's need for integrated solutions can save money over separate solutions in numerous ways. The effort required to use, integrate and support communications from various sources requires time (i.e. money) for the users as well as the IT staff. In addition to productivity gains for the whole enterprise, moving to an integrated solution simplifies the support process and reduces support costs.

Microsoft Word Strategy With Pending Legal Challenges

2009-08-19T14:29:00.000-07:00

After receiving a court order to suspend sales of its popular Microsoft Word program in 60 days from a Texas judge, the company has begun reveal how it will handle this legal challenge. I4i, a Canadian software company prevailed as it sought to protect its custom XML patent. With millions of dollars of revenue at stake, Microsoft has already filed for an injunction to stop the court order and is expected to file a full appeal as well.

Although Microsoft has begun the process to vigorously defend legally, it knows that options outside of the court room may be more advantageous. Trials can be expensive and can take a long time and the company does not want a legal cloud hanging over its flagship product. The chances are that it has begun to look at technical ways around the patent issue. I4i was silent about any on discussions which may or may not be taking place for an out of court settlement. Both of these options may be quicker and potentially less expensive in the long haul. Right now it appears that Microsoft is keeping its options open, both legally and otherwise.

Welcome to the Messaging Wire Blog

2009-07-14T15:32:00.001-07:00

Welcome to the Messaging Wire blog!