Recent Articles
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Virtual Appliances Simplify Shift into Cloud Storage
Most IT organizations are not particularly good at managing data or, for that matter, IT in general. Not only is there a lot of redundant data strewn all across the enterprise; a lot of data that isn’t particularly important winds up clogging up expensive primary storage systems. Obviously, this creates an opportunity for solution providers…
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Rethinking the Management of IT Services
Most solution providers by now have taken note of the fact that there are lots of changes taking place these days in the data center. Not only are whole data centers being consolidated, the job functions are evolving thanks to tighter integration across the server, storage and networking components that make up the data center.…
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Riding the Coming Wave of IT Infrastructure Upgrades
One of the bad things about virtual machine software from the perspective of the channel is that it allowed customers to reduce the number of x86 servers they needed. While the overall number of x86 servers being sold continued to rise, higher utilization rates constrained the number of servers being sold because customers are getting…
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Taking the Performance Conversation to a Higher Level
There are a lot of specializations in the land of IT. Some of them are a little more artificial than others, but to one degree or another they help solution providers differentiate various services. But as IT becomes increasingly complex, it’s clear that additional tiers of computing are bringing new performance pressures to bear on just…
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School District Solves Outdated PCs, Budget Cut Problems with Desktop Virtualization
Doing more with less is a challenge for every IT department, but for the organization facing a huge budget cut while being forced to continue operating with 2,500 out-of-date PCs, there’s an even greater challenge to overcome. This scenario was put in front of Presidio, a Greenbelt, Maryland-based solutions provider with offices and staff around…