Michael Dortch
As an IT industry analyst, consultant, journalist, and marketer, Michael Dortch has been translating bits and bytes into dollars and sense for four decades. His areas of expertise include strategic content planning, development, and creation, core content execution, and social media and online community development and outreach. Michael has helped to launch new products, enable sales teams, influence influencers, and grow web site traffic, prospects, leads, and positive perceptions for companies large and small. He also enjoys cooking, eating, traveling, and singing.
Latest from Michael Dortch
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TWiTIoT: This Week in The Internet of Things –Infrastructure Options Expand
Greetings, and welcome. This week, encouraging news of coming enhancements to the global IoT infrastructure – including, we can but hope, consistent, effective cyber security. As always, your thoughts, reactions, and suggestions welcome. Just send a quick email to medortch@dortchonit.com. And for more on the IoT and IIoT, check out “DortchOnIT’s Industrial Internet of Things
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TWiTIoT: This Week in The Internet of Things – Better Security for IoT Devices. For Users? Not So Much
Greetings, and welcome. This week, a promising new approach to more interoperability and security for IoT devices, and yet more proof users need help with passwords. Lots of help. Soon. And often. As always, your thoughts, reactions, and suggestions welcome. Just send a quick email to medortch@dortchonit.com. And for more on the IoT and IIoT,
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Gartner Magic Quadrant for IT Service Management
Has the Gartner Magic Quadrant Lost Its Magic? If you’re an IT decision maker, one of the most valuable tools you can have is accurate, timely information about your environment, your users, and the solutions you choose. One of the most respected sources of this information has long been Gartner. And some of their highest-profile
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TWiTIoT: This Week in The Internet of Things – Malware in the Air, and Better Health with IoT?
Greetings, and welcome. This week, evidence that commercial and military aircraft, ships, and satellites are vulnerable to IoT-borne malware attacks, and efforts to use IoT devices to make medical data more accessible. As always, your thoughts, reactions, and suggestions welcome. Just send a quick email to medortch@dortchonit.com. And for more on the IoT and IIoT,
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TWiTIoT: This Week in The Internet of Things – New Warnings from the FBI – and Hawai’i’s Kilauea Volcano!
Greetings, and welcome. This week, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) joins the growing concern about IoT device security. Meanwhile, scientists use IoT sensors to warn of pollution from Hawai’i’s Kilauea volcano. As always, your thoughts, reactions, and suggestions welcome. Just send a quick email to medortch@dortchonit.com. And for more on the IoT and
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TWiTIoT: This Week in The Internet of Things – Even More Fun with IoT Cyber(in)security!
Greetings, and welcome. This week, yet another new survey highlighting the lack of cybersecurity in business IoT deployments, and yet another IoT device vulnerability – 20, actually. As always, your thoughts, reactions, and suggestions welcome. Just send a quick email to medortch@dortchonit.com. And for more on the IoT and IIoT, check out “DortchOnIT’s Industrial Internet
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TWiTIoT: This Week in The Internet of Things – IoT Cybersecurity? What IoT Cybersecurity?
Greetings, and welcome. This week, a decade-old security flaw threatens nearly a half-billion IoT devices, while hackers use other long-known vulnerabilities to enslave thousands of IoT and other connected devices. What are we doing about IoT cybersecurity? As always, your thoughts, reactions, and suggestions welcome. Just send a quick email to medortch@dortchonit.com. And for more
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Friday is SysAdmin Day – Show Yours Some Love!
Happy SysAdmin Day, everyone! Where there’s IT, there are system administrators, or sysadmins. This Friday is a day to celebrate and thank those hard-working, often-underappreciated stalwarts. Yes, friends, Friday, July 27, is, according to the web site www.sysadminday.com, the 19th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day! From Humble Origins to Worldwide Celebration As Wikipedia explains, System
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