Chapter two: fairy tales Everything were so wonderful…. Once upon a time there was a company 🙂 … Ok don’t keep it wrong, it was not a fairy tale, livin in a startup is not always so good, but every startup share some specific characteristics: Nowhere to hide…. We use to know one with the other… We know our targets and there was not a way to hide. That means basically that everyone is committed to success. Rules do not have to be so strong, if the target is the common goal. This is common for everyone, from manager to…
Ok I know many of us experienced this kind of trip once in a lifetime. I have travelled acquisition a lot of times, when mondadori informatica was absorbed by the mother comany mondadori, when brightmail become part of symantec, when symantec acquired veritas software and moved all european management to veritas, and at the end when cisco systems acquired Ironport. All acquisitions means change and most of the changes are not well accepted, but I’m a long traveller on the seas of IT company and I’m quite used to changes so what has meant to me an acquisition? The last…
I’m thinking to start a few series of post to make a short story of how i lived cisco’s Iron port acquisition. the problem here is I would not be able to tell everything I would like, I still have some obligation towards my old company, but i hope that some of the feeling would comes out somehow. It was an hard trip, funny, interesting, sad, exciting and so on… but at the end I have to say I’m glad I lived it I’m glad I’m out of it. 😛 so I will try to recollect my memories and try to put some senses to this tripp trying…
I know I know I’m an grown up consultant, I know things of the world but there are some questions that still drive me crazy. The nightmare is when your kids can ask you question you have really hard time to explain: the toughest? “Dad, what’s money?” seems an easy question right? and anyone would be able to answer in a few words right? “…money are the things that are used to buy things…” er is all we know about money? what is really an euro, and a dollar? and what is the exchange rate? and why the hell this exchange rate is so variable? When I…
Big company are really suited for security? This is what comes to my mind when we see what Cisco, HP and Co. do when we talk about security. Are they really able to focus on the innovation and development that security require? I can talk about what I know so i will express my mixed feeling about Cisco and Security. For long times Cisco has not been perceived as a big player in the security space, beside the fact PIXASA is the most sold firewall in the world. But honestly we should not only consider the magnitude of the numbers but also why and how companies buy a product. Alas…
There are times when things changes even if you were not planning it. This is what happened to me lately, things does not go alwaysas planned but just happened. I were not planning to have a tumor in my right arm this year (see related post if interested) and I were not planning big changes but… I’m no more in Cisco, and i have to honestly say that it brigs me a lot of mixed feeling. I have met great people there, starting form my adventure in Ironport with the crazy gang: First Domenico and Patrice, then Angelo and…
here I am again with the usual dose of funny spam. Fighting Spam is usually a difficult job to do, mostly when it is carrying scam or phishing. we should dedicate a little neuron to avoid to be fooled by those strange people who love us, send us money and so on. As usual the quote “if it is too good to be true, then probably it is not true” is a good one, but we should use also different little sign to understand what is and what is not good. For instance, I hope that most of you noticed…
English: emblem of the Italian Republic Italiano: emblema della Repubblica Italiana Русский: герб Италии Српски / Srpski: грб Италије Slovenščina: grb Republike Italije Español: emblema de la Republica Italia (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Ancora una volta l’uso asservito della stampa in italia sorvola su notizie che, invece, dovrebbero avere altro rilievo. Presso i Comuni è possibile firmare per un Referendum abrogativo parziale sulla legge per le indennità parlamentari (Art. 2 L. 31/10/1965, n. 1261). In poche parole si tratta di un referendum che, se parrovato, consentirebbe di tagliare gli emolumenti che ricevono I nostri esosi parlamentari. La raccolta firme si concluderà…
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