In the age of Quad Core and Mach 3 travel, no one seems to have the patience for anything nowadays. A person in front of us in a queue is one too many. The same "Die Hard" is now so ingrained among entrepreneurs and businessmen, that we are constantly looking for shortcuts and other "easy way" to success. Some will argue that success in business is about finding the fastest way to your objectives. I would agree if in so doing, we do not neglect our integrity and ethics. However, many of us tend to forgo the very principles we are ...

A 2009 prediction of IT trends in Malaysia reflected the same senti­ments that SMEs are looking to move towards an operational expenditure (OPEX) model and reduce their capital operations (CAPEX) model. This is against the backdrop of prediction that IT spend in Malaysia is expected to increase by 1% despite the current economic downturn. This prediction is a result of an expected demand by businesses to use IT innovation to improve the business by outsourcing several operations to achieve reduce operating cost. SMB worldwide spend on remote managed services grew about 9.2 percent in 2009 to reach about US$3.6 Billion and ...