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Have you ever gone into a room of people you don’t know – say, a dinner party for your husband/wife or friend’s workmates, and within 5 minutes, you have an understanding of who’s in charge, who is accommodating and who is the cheerleader in the organization?  Well, you’ve just used soft skills.  Those street-smart, sixth-sense, …

History provides us with countless examples of disruptive technology. Clayton M. Christensen of the Harvard Business School is credited with coining the phrase Disruptive Innovation in his 1995 book The Innovator’s Dilemma. In it, Christensen describes Disruptive Innovation as a process by which a product or service takes root initially in simple applications at the …

I hope you’ve heard of a SMART objective.  My favorite expansion of the acronym is Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Timed.  SMART objectives can and should be found in lots of places – action items in meeting minutes, project plans, strategic plans, employee performance reviews, etc, etc.

But I think you could ignore S, A, R …

Organizations implement and maintain technology to support their business. Technology vendors exist for the purpose of providing products and services to assist with the architecture, implementation, integration and operation of these products as necessary. There are competing arguments for taking a “Best of Breed” approach to technology or going the “One Throat to Choke” …

Twelve years ago, I moved to Victoria to attend Royal Roads University and change my career towards Information Technology.  The first thing I noticed about Victoria is that there are a lot of people who have been born, grew up and are still here – …

There’s operating systems, and then there’s linux distros. Here at MYRA, we are partnered with Red Hat and know the difference can be huge.

Is Red Hat Enterprise Linux an operating system? Well, yes, but that’s like calling a Rolls-Royce a chassis, or the Spirit of British Columbia …

Provided by Luanne Richardson

There is not a lot of arguments on the benefits of utilizing Agile methodology for software development projects, but is there a place for it in other disciplines?  For MYRA, the question is – is there a place for it in infrastructure projects? I think so…. and here’s why:

 What is it? 

Wikipedia defines …

I had a conversation a while back with our Director of Business Consulting – from which we coined a whole new phrase of managementspeak gobbledegook: “Strategically Bi-Directional View of Technology.” But we know what we mean.

So there you are, looking at a screwdriver and a hammer. Which will you pick? Maybe someone’s told you one …

Provided by Caius St. George

Office 365: The Future is Cloudy
By now, almost everyone has heard of Office 365 and what a well rounded, solid product offering it is. Microsoft managed quite a lot of press on this, and rightly so: office productivity software remains their bread and butter – it is in almost every enterprise, …