Guest Columns

Delphi Wins Microsoft Ignite Metalogix MetaHero Award Backed By C/D/H Team

GRAND RAPIDS - Delphi, a global automotive manufacturing company, won the Microsoft Ignite 2016 Mealogix MetroHero Award, in the Migration category, with the assistance of the C/D/H team. Delphi set almost unachievable goals that most organizations would have said were not feasible, possible, or attainable. Put quite simply, a pipe dream. That didn’t deter Delphi

By |2016-10-10T10:41:06-04:00October 3rd, 2016|Guest Columns|

Top 10 Reasons Why Businesses Should Select CloudTech1 For Their Managed Service Needs

ROCHESTER HILLS - The buzz Rick Beckers and his team at CloudTech1 are generating is undeniable. CloudTech1, a Managed Services Provider, for a flat fee can become your full-time IT department for a lot less money. But there are 10 reasons, actually, why you should consider CloudTech1 for your cloud computing and managed services needs:

By |2016-10-02T17:58:10-04:00September 30th, 2016|Guest Columns|

Schrodinger’s Project: The Details Are Inside

GRAND RAPIDS - I was in a conversation with my daughter the other day – she’s been doing a lot of auditioning lately and is working hard to get herself more deeply involved in musical theatre. I commented that, despite her many lessons and auditions, I’d never heard her sing, and she responded, “That’s by

By |2016-09-30T12:32:39-04:00September 30th, 2016|Guest Columns|

Nancy Benovich Gilby: U-M School Of Information Entrepreneurship Director Gets High Marks From Students, Colleagues, Benefactors

ANN ARBOR – Jeff Zhang, an undergraduate at the University of Michigan in the School of Information, also is an entrepreneur. He’s mentored by Nancy Benovich Gilby, the school’s Ehrenberg Director of Entrepreneurship, a serial entrepreneur herself who has guided eight companies over her career to successful exits. Zhang is developing a project that comes

By |2016-09-27T19:16:11-04:00September 27th, 2016|Entrepreneurs, Guest Columns|

The JOYS Of Ransomware – Or How Lack Of Data Protection Destroyed My Business

ROCHESTER HILLS - Are you a business professional or owner in charge of your IT network? Do you like giving money to people that have violated your data, encrypted it, and now offering to sell it back to you for a price? Do you enjoy getting frustrated? If you answered yes to any of these

By |2016-09-23T17:55:37-04:00September 23rd, 2016|Guest Columns|

Apprenticeship Provides Opportunity To Close IT Skills Gap

DETROIT - IT employers in the Southeast Michigan region are facing an increasingly challenging recruiting environment as demand for talent vastly outweighs the supply of workers. According to an analysis done by the Workforce IntelligenceNetwork for Southeast Michigan (WIN), there were more than 69,075 IT online job postings in 2015, which is nearly twenty times the number

By |2016-09-26T12:15:35-04:00September 23rd, 2016|Entrepreneurs, Guest Columns|

OST Guest Column: Internet Of Things – Are We Doing It All Wrong?

GRAND RAPIDS - The term Internet of Things (IoT) has been around for almost 2 decades. The concepts related to IoT have been bantered around since the early years of e-commerce. However, we are still in the phase of IoT’s evolution where we are dealing with significant design, process, technology, regulatory and social issues. Why are

By |2016-09-23T12:56:19-04:00September 23rd, 2016|Guest Columns|

Red Level Networks’ Spoof Video On Getting Named To Detroit 101 Best & Brightest Companies To Work For List For 7th Time

NOVI - It’s great to be cited for doing something extremely well – and even better when it happens over and over again. For Red Level, it’s just happened again: For the seventh year in a row, we have been named as one of Detroit’s 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For by the

By |2016-09-10T23:06:02-04:00September 9th, 2016|Guest Columns|