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Saturday, December 10, 2011

The Obama Facts You Probably Wanna Know Whether You Are a Democrat or Republican

I have been listening to a lot of back and forth about the election and whether Obama has been a good president. While I am not here to get in to the partisan debate around better or worse, I decided to put together a list of concrete facts that people can use on their own to interpret.

Obama made 508 campaign promises during his race for president. 159 of those promises have been completed 54 have been flat out broken and the rest are in the works.

Here are my top 10 campaign promises kept I compiled from PolitiFact.com:

Kill Osama Bin Laden
End the war in Iraq and bring the Troops home
Sign a universal healthcare bill
Repeal Don't ask Don't Tell
Require insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions
Create 5 million green jobs (on track)
End the use of torture in the military
Reform corporate financial regulations
Establish a credit card bill of rights
Require children have health insurance coverage

In my opinion, this is a pretty compelling list and one that will come up during the next year. I am sure Republicans are studying pretty hard getting ready for the debates.

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Say, does anyone know how to work this cloud thing?

Too often, eager businesses overlook the time and skill set investment necessary to realize the benefits of cloud services

By Matt Prigge

As InfoWorld's David Linthicum pointed out a few weeks ago, the public cloud isn't likely to save you money. What you really get is a tremendous amount of pay-as-you-go agility that you'd be hard-pressed to realize with on-premise resources. At its core, that's what the cloud really does well, and it truly deserves attention for it.

It's vitally important, though, to realize that simply because your services are based somewhere else on hardware you don't own doesn't mean you'll spend less time on administration duties. In fact, you may even create skill set gaps within your IT department where there previously weren't any -- forcing you to rely upon much more expensive external help.