Recorded June 2, 2016 A conversation about the VirtusaPolaris InsightLive software development tool between TAC founder and chairman Alan Guibord, and VirtusaPolaris executive VP of...

TAC Talk Episode 3: Reducing Baseline Costs through Better Demand Management

Jul 25th, 2015

Recorded July 24, 2015 A conversation about Demand Management between TAC president Peter Schay and TAC expert Patrick Savard, who consults with Fortune 500 businesses...

TAC Talk Episode 2: Cyber Security Insurance

Jul 17th, 2015

A conversation with TAC President Peter Schay, and TAC Founder Alan Guibord, a frequent speaker on IT leadership, organizational strategy, future trends in IT, and cybersecurity.

TAC Talk Episode 1: Why Cloud business planning is more difficult than you think – and what to do about it.

Jul 10th, 2015

A conversation with TAC President Peter Schay and guest Bruce Guptil, TAC expert and skilled speaker, media contributor, and author of hundreds of research notes, reports, blog posts, articles, and presentations on business IT change, strategy,

Didn’t We Just Do This Last Year?

Jul 8th, 2015

A little more than a year ago, TAC went live with a new website. The reason for the update then was to give the site...

Monitoring Architecture

Jul 1st, 2015

Monitoring has evolved to mean much more than just managing the network components in the IT production data center. In the good old days, a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) management product was sufficient to manage all the network c

What to Do When Your Biggest Threat to Security is a Well-Intentioned Employee

Jun 24th, 2015

Unfortunately, employees tend to forget or disregard policies, especially mobile security policies, so they may engage in risky behavior without thinking about it. They’re generally unaware of the potential risks, and often treat their mobile d

Windows 10 : Windows 8 :: Windows 7 : Windows Vista

Jun 15th, 2015

I’ve been using the Windows 10 Technical/Insider Previews (slow ring, now build 10130) on my primary work laptop since October, and it’s clear to me that in Windows 10 Microsoft has successfully salvaged the Metro/WinRT technology, introduced w

How IT Advisory Services Should Work

Mar 5th, 2015

Designed as a stand-alone, on-demand advisory service for the occasional user, the TACwizard has no seat licenses, no restrictions on the use of information internally, and no strings attached.

Why Some Advisory Companies Are Really “Just Guessing”

Mar 3rd, 2015

Everyone likes to be asked for advice. In fact many companies have made a good living by giving advice. But have you ever noticed that these same companies always wrap their research in “safe harbor” statements? Ever wonder why?

What I Learned about Advisory Services from an “All You Can Eat” Buffet

Feb 24th, 2015

I don’t know about you, but I’d like my advisory service to be more like a fine dining experience rather than the all-you-can-eat buffet. I prefer to sit down and be served exactly what I want instead of wandering around with the hopes of findi

The Anthem Hack: Sophisticated? Maybe, Maybe Not.

Feb 5th, 2015

How could Home Depot and Neiman Marcus fall into the same trap that Target did months earlier? Could it be that this is not considered material enough to spend money on both the technology (to prevent & detect data losses) and the human behavio

Six Easy Ways to Get More Done in Less Time

Jan 6th, 2015

We still have only twenty-four hours in a day, seven days in a week, and to-do lists that continue to grow. Large companies get around many time limitations by buying more time in the form of employee man-hours, but not all of us can afford to

Rabbit Season, Duck Season, Budget Season

Nov 14th, 2014

Reevaluating services and looking for options is always a good idea. It keeps you up-to-date on new technologies, new services, and new engagement models that could reduce your need (and cost) for some services and replace them with lower-cost,

Why You Should Rethink Making That New Software Purchase

Oct 28th, 2014

Investing in new software to resolve an issue within businesses is a common but often misguided solution, since many times the required functionality already exists within the business’s software portfolio or is available at some level for free

When Information About a Virus Goes… um, Viral

Oct 13th, 2014

Be very careful about the information you rely on from outside sources. Your sources should be subject matter experts, people with many years of experience in the field in which they are speaking about.

Is the Information You Get the Right-For-You Information?

Sep 18th, 2014

There’s a lot of information floating around on the Internet. Some of it is good, but a lot of it is bad. And to make...

Do You Know the Difference Between an Analyst and an Expert?

Aug 13th, 2014

Which should you consult for advice, an analyst or an expert practitioner? It depends on the information you are looking to get.

So You Want To Innovate? Embrace The Risk!

Oct 11th, 2013

As with ideas, the same factors: need, broad knowledge base, environment, and timing all come into play. We can, In fact, start with the notion that an idea becomes an innovation when it fundamentally changes the way we do things. The more chan

Cyber Crime – Why “Prevent, Detect, React” Doesn’t Work

Oct 8th, 2013

“You don’t know when they were there, when they left, what they took, and what they left behind”. And until you acknowledge that, you will leave gaps in your defenses or your monitoring that the bad guys will easily exploit.

Rate