When is the right time to start thinking about a budget? Where in your career do you need to be to start thinking about budgets? Manager? CTO? What is the right size company to start thinking about budgets?

Budgeting season is a great time to figure out what things you are still paying for that you are no longer using. Something not often seen such as internet connections or old applications that have been deprecated but are still billing for service get brought into the light and are easy wins for saving $$$$$

Join Rose and Colin going through this not often talked about topic, budgeting for your SaaS and IT Services.

Welcome to the new season of SaaS Showdown! We have upgraded our setups to enable video show recording so now you can see us in living color! We have a very exciting season lined up covering topics rThe term single pane of glass has been around for a long time, its origins are rooted in security to be able to monitor systems all in one place.

As systems have evolved we now have many applications that are striving to be the one application to rule them all, from Google Workspace, to Slack, to Teams, Zoom, and beyond the collaboration space as well. The problem is, there are many orgs that are using best in class software and yet are still using Google Workspace, Slack, and Zoom, so is Single Pane of Glass working?

anging from Document Collaboration to Platform Wars and beyond.

Welcome to the new season of SaaS Showdown! We have upgraded our setups to enable video show recording so now you can see us in living color! We have a very exciting season lined up covering topics ranging from Document Collaboration to Platform Wars and beyond.

Not so many years ago, there was a king. One company so huge they had total office management domination. Their server and desktop software powered almost every computer in the workplace in the world. I am talking of course about Microsoft and their ecosystem of Windows, Office, Exchange, and more. Now, there were still holdouts, running Apple’s products, and of course the all-important Linux userbase, but the world was mainly powered by Microsoft.

Then came a small company with a large search engine, and a revolutionary new email concept that would be so outrageous everyone would think it was a joke on launch day. Of course that could have something to do with the fact that they launched it on April Fool's day…

SaaS Showdown is our latest show to help educate and entertain SMB IT Professionals and is all about Managing SaaS Applications. Managing SaaS can be challenging, but with the right tools, and the right methodology, it doesn’t have to be. SaaS Showdown teaches you how to manage SaaS at your organization while staying sane!

Introducing our newest amazing hosts, Colin McCarthy and Rose Layton who are both rockstars in the tech community, as well as experts in managing IT and especially SaaS. Their official bios will be available on saasshowdown.com shortly, and we can’t wait for you to meet them!

When it comes to IT, few things require better security than a bank holding our precious savings. BJ Beier started at the Guardian Savings Bank in an entry-level non-IT Position and worked his way to the top, obviously, he knows what he's doing.

Join us to learn about running IT operations for a small-town regional bank, and what it takes to get there. Enjoy!

Can you imagine running IT for a major Hollywood awards show? What about the leading video games event of the year? John has done both of these and way more, and is just getting started.

Join us to hear his story of learning event IT, how to approach venues as a vendor, and what happens when the lights go out.

Supporting IT Support is now Heroes of IT! Same great show with more guests and a new name and an amazing new logo. With our new brand, we are expanding to include more than just IT support, but other areas within IT as well, and expanding into a video show. IT is an enormous field, and we are bringing you interviews with amazing business technology leaders from across the spectrum. Enjoy!

Freda has worked at a bunch of amazing companies in Silicon Valley such as Facebook, and Bolt.

STEP 1. If you are using your G Suite Legacy account for personal/family, take Google’s survey immediately. This will show Google how many of us there are and they are listening! Fill out the form here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSegYlPiZd5KKL6qSgV9CIEzN1pMO5i9d9spvUqG4chAm5zyMA/viewform

Job hunting can be an incredibly long and painful process, especially at a time when the economy is totally topsy turvy. We at tabGeeks want to help make that process a bit less difficult and will be gathering together the job listings we see posted around various IT Communities including our own tabGeek Slack Community. Sign up here to join the conversation

Dr. Eric Cole has a life story that sounds like it should be a movie.

He starts out cutting his teeth on cybersecurity for the CIA when after 8 years he (get this) decides Cyber Offense is boring since there is always a way in. He goes on to become Sr VP and CTO of McAfee, Chief Scientist at Lockheed Martin and even consults on Cyber Security for Bill and Melinda Gates and family as well as many fortune 500 companies.

Wow, can you believe this year is almost over?? With Thanksgiving now behind us, we are in the home stretch, and over here at tabGeeks things are heating up! In case you missed the announcement post, I have stepped back from my day job to focus more on building tabGeeks! We have already launched our newsletter which you can subscribe to at tabgeeks.com/newsletter, as well as new blog posts, adding video to our shows, and finally getting back to bringing you more amazing content!

Dear tabGeeks Family,

It is my absolute pleasure to announce that effective immediately tabGeeks is about to get a whole lot more amazing!

I have taken a step back from my day job as IT Director, to spend approximately 30 hours a week dedicated to building tabGeeks, expanding our content, and engaging with all of you. It has been a difficult year and a half for everyone, and one of the brightest things that helped a lot of people get through the pandemic was communities like this one. We have an amazing community in our tabGeeks Slack, along with all of our wonderful listeners and attendees, and I am so happy to be able to begin this next chapter. My goal is to grow this business so I can do this full time, and bring on a production staff to continue creating amazing content and begin hosting incredible events again.

Welcome to the launch of Season two, our 20th episode, and the most fun I have ever had on a podcast episode! Introducing an updated format, interviewing amazing people from the IT Community, sharing their stories, lessons, and giving back to the community. Our first guest of Season 2 is Tanya Janca, the author of her new book Alice and Bob Learn Application Security.

I want to share something. This has been percolating in my mind for quite some time and I guess I was not ready to put it into words just yet. It’s the same feeling so many of us are feeling. WHAT THE HELL COMES NEXT? Well, that’s an impossible question and that’s why it is burdening so many of us today. There is no playbook here. There is no plan. There is only tomorrow and next week. Maybe next month. Will we be back in lockdown or will we be back at work and our kids back at school? Will the economy collapse or will it boom? Trying to manage day to day operations for this is exhausting just thinking about it, never mind living through it. So many of us, those who are lucky enough to have jobs today, have been working at extreme warp for several months now and it’s showing. The cracks in the hull are widening to continue the Star Trek analogy, and something has to change. We need to drop out of warp for a few days and recharge. Make repairs. Take a look around. Only then can we go back on course re-energized for what comes next.

Of course Google is hoping this model will see much broader consumer adoption, obviously they want to sell this thing, and in marketing, it must have pushed the word “affordable” in the talking points given that they literally said it in the presentation, and in their blog posts, and everyone is mentioning it. It’s on the higher end of consumer affordable laptops though, so here is the business side of things, and why we should be paying attention.

As you may know, Google announced the newest member of the Pixelbook family yesterday, the Pixelbook Go. The tech media is having a field day over this wonky playful design, lack of pen support, and the fact that it’s an affordable, budget, Chromebook for the masses!

Here at tabGeeks, we LOVE laptop stickers. We decorate our laptops, our office doors and even give them away at conferences. But sometimes our laptops outlive a particularly trendy sticker. So for a slightly off-beat post today, I’m going to tell you how to get that yucky residue off your laptop once an old sticker starts falling off or you remove it because you don’t want it anymore.

What you’ll need: Nail-polish remover & cotton (rounds, balls, pads, whatever you can get your hands on). FYI: Paper towels will work in a pinch, but they do make this process significantly more difficult as they are designed to absorb, and cotton is better at controlled dispersal.

There are 4 million people in the City of Angels, home to the largest port in the western hemisphere, the first city to fully roll out 5G, and sitting on a massive fault line waiting to be all shook up at any moment. This week's guest Jeanne Holm is no stranger to big data, managing IT and teams doing social good around the world. We talk about her path into IT, what it's like managing IT on a massive city scale, and her work helping improve the lives of LA residents through technology.

People often forget that people skills are a huge part of our jobs in IT Support. One of the major ongoing themes of this podcast is soft skills, or as we prefer to call them, critical skills. This week's guest is a former teacher and current Cloud Training Specialist Olivia Liddell tackling a difficult constant in many of our lives: The Fear of Failure.