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  • Blog Post: A Small Business Rolls Out Vista and Office 2007

    Ruth Morton
            Alan is the top IT guy (as well as the only IT guy) for a small vibrant company call AGSI located in Hornby, Ontario , just west of Toronto. I visited him at their funky new office location earlier this week to talk about his Vista and Office 2007 deployment project. He's...
    on 13 Mar 2008

  • Blog Post: Managing the Lifecycle of your Applications

    Ruth Morton
    Do you or your team develop applications? If so, you have no doubt struggled with managing the lifecycle of those applications . Artifacts such as requirements, source code, and defect resolution are just a few of the success factors associated with creating a great application. Some of the most productive...
    on 3 Nov 2009

  • Blog Post: Mind Mapping in the IT World

    Ruth Morton
    You're in a meeting and it's going well. The team is brain storming for a solution to a critical problem and the ideas are flying. You get back to your desk, meaning to review your notes and start on some action items but the phone rings. You get off the phone and someone stops by your office. Then it...
    on 28 Feb 2007

  • Blog Post: Cross-Canada Q & A with Local Partners

    Ruth Morton
    Even though Office and SharePoint 2010 haven’t been released yet, there are a number of Canadian companies piloting early adopter projects using the beta applications to enhance corporate collaboration, enable management of content and use business intelligence to drive better company decisions. And...
    on 9 Apr 2010

  • Blog Post: Episode #31: Talking About Virtualization

    Ruth Morton
    Although virtualization technology has been mainstream now for a number of years, it’s still a hot topic of discussion among IT professionals. However, the conversation has changed. No longer is it a question of “should we virtualize?” but rather, “how do we get the most out of our virtualized environment...
    on 23 Oct 2009

  • Blog Post: Microsoft Private Cloud part 3: VMware private cloud and per-VM licensing

    Ruth Morton
    A new whitepaper was released in January comparing private cloud solutions from Microsoft and VMware, taking a look at the functionality, benefits and economics of each solution. This series of blog posts breaks down the components of the whitepaper into consumable chunks and I’ve added my own...
    on 20 Mar 2012

  • Blog Post: IT's Bad Reputation

    Ruth Morton
    A few weeks ago I received an email from one of our regular guest bloggers, Adam Cole . He came across a highly impassioned debate on IT's bad reputation and how IT departments are often thought of as hindering business progress, rather than enabling it. Nicholas Spanos, a consultant with Computer Aid...
    on 28 Nov 2007

  • Blog Post: Resources for IT Managers

    Ruth Morton
    There seems to be many free online resources for the hands-on, in-the-trenches IT professional and developer. However, for IT managers who are working on recruiting and managing the in-the-trenches people while setting the direction and strategy of IT for their corporation, there seems to be less available...
    on 19 Aug 2009

  • Blog Post: Growing IT Leadership and Connecting with Winnipegers

    Ruth Morton
    e-Mentoring Opportunities Today is International Women’s Day and so a very appropriate day for the CATA WIT announcement of the e-Mentoring program “to help women aspiring to be CIOs move into IT leadership positions”. Why is this important? Here is an excerpt from the press release (emphasis mine):...
    on 9 Mar 2010

  • Blog Post: Upcoming May IT Manager Webcasts

    Ruth Morton
    Each month I post the upcoming IT manager focused webcasts for the following month. But don't forget that if you miss the live webcast dates or, if you're like me and don't like to commit to a specific time for a webcast, you can download these after they've aired or download other past webcasts on demand...
    on 18 Apr 2008

  • Blog Post: Growing Your Business Intelligently

    Ruth Morton
    Business is getting more and more competitive and many organizations are looking to be able to get an edge by collecting data and analyzing it to make better business decisions. One company may want look at weather patterns to better stock their stores while another may need to analyze information to...
    on 10 Jan 2008

  • Blog Post: Get Your Geek On

    Ruth Morton
    I tend to read a lot of books. I love losing myself in a good story. However, the best is when I can read a book with a good story that also teaches me something useful. Like fictional stories set in historically accurate settings - I learn a bit about history without even realizing it. EnergizeIT...
    on 3 May 2007

  • Blog Post: Interoperability and Virtualization

    Ruth Morton
    Well, we've all been doing a lot of talking about virtualization lately. It's a hot technology and more than half of people in the audiences I've presented to are using it in some shape or form. Those that aren't, are planning to. Virtualization technology really has the potential to change how we do...
    on 8 Nov 2007

  • Blog Post: Webcasts, Podcasts and Videos…oh my!

    Ruth Morton
    Keeping up with product changes and updates on top of general IT issues can be a challenge. Below are some of the top rated webcasts, podcasts and videos from the Microsoft world wide digital events site , specifically for IT managers. On-Demand Webcasts: IT Manager Community Chat with Kevin Remde: Business...
    on 2 Nov 2010

  • Blog Post: A new look–after 25 years, it’s about time!

    Ruth Morton
    Today the new logo for our company was unveiled and I must say that I like what I see. Clean lines, more modern but friendly. Nice! Old logo: New logo: What do you think?
    on 23 Aug 2012

  • Blog Post: Igniting Careers

    Ruth Morton
    It’s never seems to be easy to find the time or justify the cost of career development training whether it’s for yourself or your team. It’s so easy to get absorbed in the day-to-day tasks that need your attention! However, without thinking about where you want to be tomorrow, today, you run the risk...
    on 31 Aug 2009

  • Blog Post: System Management for Smaller Organizations

    Ruth Morton
    Management tools such as Systems Management Software (SMS) and Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) - now called System Center Configuration Manager and System Center Operations Manager - have in the past been thought of as tools only for large organizations, with big data centres of servers, thousands...
    on 28 Apr 2008

  • Blog Post: Connect Your Small/Medium Business with Microsoft Resources

    Ruth Morton
    Yesterday I was in Toronto talking to a room of IT managers about Windows Server 2008 and virtualization. After I finished, I had tea with a gentleman whose son runs a small local business providing computers hardware and IT services to the disabled and shut-in. They work solely with Microsoft software...
    on 4 Oct 2007

  • Blog Post: Managing a Smooth Windows Vista SP1 Deployment

    Ruth Morton
    Earlier this month, both Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 were released to manufacturing (RTM), which is great news for IT shops that have been working with beta versions and are eager to get the released code. However, there has been a bit of extra noise in the blogosphere particularly about...
    on 11 Feb 2008

  • Blog Post: The IT Manager Podcast Series Goes on the Road

    Ruth Morton
    This episode, we tried something totally new, and as with all new things there are usually lessons learned along the way! The Heros Happen Here event , launching Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 happened last February but instead of bringing our guests into the studio to talk...
    on 30 May 2008

  • Blog Post: Collaboration in the Enterprise

    Ruth Morton
    As Damir and I trek across Canada on the Align IT tour , we’ve been talking to a lot of IT folk about collaboration in the enterprise. IT organizations that are moving from being seen as cost centres to being strategic business assets are finding ways to enhance the productivity of end users. And using...
    on 25 Mar 2010

  • Blog Post: On the Next Manager Tech Talk: Planning Your Windows Roadmap

    Ruth Morton
    It’s a bit of a Catch-22 – deploying a new operating system can be an expensive proposition, but not using up to date technology can cost a business worker productivity, recruitment of top talent, and integration with customers and partners. For development shops, making sure your application runs on...
    on 11 Oct 2011

  • Blog Post: Special Edition of the Manager Tech Talk at TechDays Vancouver: Mary Jo Foley on the Future of IT

    Ruth Morton
    Don’t you wish sometimes that you had a crystal ball showing you what technology is coming down the pipe and if it’s going to disrupt your status quo? It would just make life so much easier. No more guessing what the CIO is going to insist be deployed ASAP just because he read about it in PC magazine...
    on 21 Oct 2011

  • Blog Post: Making Messy Deployment Projects Simpler

    Ruth Morton
    Desktop deployment is often thought of as the ugly step child of IT projects. It's much messier than server deployment. There's less control over what's really out there, more unknowns. Before coming to Microsoft, I made good use of all the free deployment tools that Microsoft made available to help...
    on 25 Oct 2007

  • Blog Post: [Guest Blogger] Business Analysis - Part 1 (Self Assessment)

    Canadian IT Managers
    I'm very happy to introduce a new guest blogger here on the Canadian IT Managers blog. I met Blaine Bey in Halifax at the CIPS Informatics conference . He's a consultant with Sierra Systems in Victoria and will focus mainly on business processes and other things that spark his interest. ~ Ruth -----...
    on 2 Jul 2007