Author Archives: Todd Epple - Iasta

A recent article popped up in Network World about another vendor in the industry extolling the virtues of “utility computing”. Perfect Commerce, much to the chagrin of its remaining internal IT staff, is outsourcing all of its datacenter operations to Savvis in a $5 million 3-year contract. When I first read this I was shocked at the price tag, which I am sure has been discounted considerably from Savvis’ list pricing considering the public press release and marketing help that … More →

Yahoo Finance is a great site… and it has been since I started using it during the grand old days of 1997 (almost 10 years ago!). One of the things it lets you do is create watchlists of different investments you may own or just track. I know there are many flashy sites that exist now which let you do the same thing but Yahoo Finance “just works” and hey, it’s good enough for me. Anyway, I found one of … More →