Contegix’s industry has gone through a series of name changes in the past 20 years. We have gone from being called “Internet Service Providers” to “Web Hosting Service Providers”. The “Web” was replaced with “Application” and later dropped as companies … Read More →
Author Archives: Matthew E. Porter
Google, True Leadership and The Who of a Contegian
Last month, the New York Times published an op-ed by Thomas Friedman titled “How to Get a Job at Google“. The premise of the article is that Google has reduced its dependency for candidate evaluation around traditional measurements of academic … Read More →
Customer Complaints Are Healthy
Having a successful business hopefully means having customer accolades and cheers. It also means customer complaints. Thanks to our amazing staff, we have very few complaints. Our internal scores and feedback mechanisms reiterate the happiness of our customer base. Yet, … Read More →
CIO Survey : Cloud Is Top Priority & Costs In Focus
Compuware recently commissioned a survey of 468 CIOs. The report, published by Research In Action, showed that nearly 2/3 of respondents named cloud as their top priority. The most interesting and hopeful aspect of this report is that we are … Read More →
Shall We Play A Game?
I am surprised that there are still companies that employ “the enterprise sales process” . We often see this employed when we evaluate new hardware vendors. Here is how I recently described the process to a potential vendor (who thankfully promised to not do this): Vendor send quote. I gasp. I reply that I receivedContinue reading “Shall We Play A Game?”
Focus on the Five Percent
For most companies, 95 percent of what they do is what EVERY company has to do – build and service a customer base, human resources, accounts payables, etc. Read More →
Five Questions for Family Dinner.
When it was time for dinner, Courtney and I sit with our kids and want to know how each of their days was. Sometimes, a child would just utter “Fine”, “ok”, etc. and want to move on. Other times, a child would be so excited that others wouldn’t have a chance to share their day.Continue reading “Five Questions for Family Dinner.”
Video: How Linux is Built
Many people often don’t know how much technology impacts our everyday lives. Read More →
Children As Truth and Inspiration
A number of family and friends know this story already. It’s time to write it down for posterity’s sake and because I hope Avery will read it one day. As many people know and talked about in a previous post, I have lost a bit of weight the past 2 years (from 199 lb toContinue reading “Children As Truth and Inspiration”
The Cloud and the Balance Between CFO and CIO/CTO
One of the most interesting aspects of the rise of cloud the past few years is the balance between the CFO and CIO (or CTO). Read More →