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Sometimes the speed of light isn’t fast enough
Mar 02, 2018
An enterprise needs to make strategic decisions about where to station its resources, and more often nowadays, where to provision its workloads. Today, workloads can encompass the planet, spanning between headquarters, branch offices, leased...
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Where ‘the edge’ can work against data centers
Mar 02, 2018
The allure of micro-modular data centers may be giving enterprises renewed hope for much closer control over their own IT resources.  But it also means they’re responsible for overcoming the challenges of facilitation, cooling, and connectivity...
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Hurricane Harvey Case Study
Mar 01, 2018
When lives are at stake, the last thing businesses want to worry about is the health of their IT systems.  In time of crisis, data security should be a given.  Fortunately, when Hurricane Harvey came to town some organizations were ready...
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A Better Way to Reach the Cloud
Mar 01, 2018
Connecting to the cloud is harder than it needs to be. Do-it yourself approaches are risky and expensive. Traditional service providers can take months to establish connections and typically demand long-term contracts with few assurances about the...
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How the Age of the Cloud is Transforming Data Center Operations
Feb 28, 2018
Consider the life of an IT manager, ten years ago—before the rise of cloud computing from a business perspective. In the absence of virtualization, the conventional IT manager worked with entirely local assets, usually set up inside of an on...
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Benchmark Hospitality Overcomes Aging Hardware
Feb 28, 2018
The Challenge - The ability to scale information technology (IT) infrastructure based on growth, future needs and operations is critical for any business, but is especially important for Benchmark Hospitality International. Because Benchmark...
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Cloud Services and the Healthcare Alphabet Soup
Feb 28, 2018
The healthcare industry seems to be an amalgamation of acronyms, from HIPAA and HITECH to HHS and ACA. While far from comprehensive, this document provides a brief overview of the terminology, federal laws, initiatives and agencies behind some of...
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