While many companies have ported their important business functions and materials over to the cloud, there are still just as many that, for one reason or another, haven’t made the move. If you’re saying to yourself, “that’s not for me, we don’t need the cloud,” or better yet, “it’s too complicated,” well, you’d be wrong.
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Make Managed Services a Part of your Team
The technical experience needed to keep up with the latest and greatest technology and best practices may sometimes seem insurmountable. On top of that, finding the bandwidth required to offer 24X7 support can overtax your existing team.
The Shrink-Wrapped Cloud
This blog begins with an honest disclaimer: there is no such thing as a shrink-wrapped Cloud. But there are pre-integrated solutions on the market today that can dramatically reduce the cost, risk, and time associated with deploying a Cloud solution in your network.
Converged Management Automates and Simplifies IT
As IT is adopting converged infrastructures, virtualization, and the Cloud, the need for a truly converged management tool is undeniable. Traditional siloed management is not efficient or effective in today’s IT infrastructures.
Is Flash Memory “Fast Talk” Selling the Technology Short?
When it comes to high-performance workloads, Flash lives up to its name. The industry loves to talk about how Flash-based memory is perfect for applications that need low latency and lots of data processing power under pressure, such as the 8:00 AM storm that hits a data center when everyone boots their virtual desktop at the same time.
5 Steps to Offsite Cloud Backup
Offsite backup is a key component to any company’s D/R strategy. Most companies contract the services of a media storage and retrieval company or have a second D/R location where they replicate their backups to.
OpenStack Opens New Opportunities for Cloud Developers
To date, more than 200 companies have put their support behind OpenStack, including Cisco, EMC, HP, IBM, Intel, Oracle, RedHat and VMware.
Elevate Your Game with vCloud Air
In the world of sports, speed is an absolute good. In the world of IT, speed can be good or bad. Speeding up your time to market is definitely good, but not if it also means rushing through compliance testing.
What is Cloudbursting and Why Should You Embrace It?
CIOs have heard a lot of cloud talk lately: private clouds, public clouds, even hybrid clouds. At the risk of clouding the topic even more, I thought it would be timely to introduce the topic of cloudbursting.
With Bigger Appetites for Technology, Businesses Look to All-You-Can-IT Appliances
In businesses everywhere, the conversation around IT is changing. CIOs are no longer engaged in deep discussions about the merits of network attached storage versus storage area networks.