David Strom

Corporate Blogs: Still Relevant?

Lost in the overall deluge of social media and other online tools is the lowly blog. But blogs are still one of the best ways for corporations...

Tips for Tech StartUps

I have had the opportunity to mentor quite a few startup companies in the St. Louis region over the past several years. I was asked yesterday why...

How to Get Bank Fraud Alerts in Real Time

Like some of you, I was in the market to buy a new phone late last year, and went online to the AT&T store to make my...

Tips of Making and Marketing Video Tech Reviews

It was three years ago this week when I began an experiment inproducing a new form of IT product reviews, using video screencastingtechnology, combined with my years...

Sharing Files in Public Places? Please Don’t.

I have been on the road a lot this summer, which is always the worst time of year to travel. But one thing I have noticed is...

IT SysAdmin Day Is Coming Up (Hug a SysAdmin)

Yes, it is time for the twelfth annual SysAdminDay coming up in twoweeks. I must have missed the first eleven of them somehow, but I planon celebrating...

Tech Vendors Make You Work to Find the Price. Why?

In the past week I have done several stories for ReadWriteWeb where Ihad to really dig to get the price from the vendor. This seems thebeginning of...

What the RIM Playbook Can Teach the iPad

So maybe the iPad is the must-have cool portable device at the moment. But Apple still has a few things to learn about building the best tablet....

Virtualization Software Trends: Hybrid Clouds Mature, Virtual Firewalls Lag

In my last update on virtualization, I looked at developments toward the end of 2010 concerning virtual desktops and improvements to virtual infrastructure. The past...

12 Great Tech Innovations (Of All Time)

Behold: this August will be the 30th anniversary of the first IBM PC. That humble box changed our world. No, IBM wasn't the first PC...

Cloud Computing: Public and Private Hybrid Clouds

The notion of a hybrid model in cloud computing is gaining traction. These are virtual services that run in various locations to deliver applications that...

Virtualization Update: Virtual Desktops, New Software

More on virtualization: Virtualization Vendors: VMware vs. Microsoft vs. Citrix In my last update on virtualization, it was all about the server side of...

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