Cloud Computing

“When I was growing up in Indianapolis, we didn’t have a lot of money. We weren’t exactly poor, but then again, we never vacationed at Disneyland. Maybe Rock City . . . the Smoky Mountains – or Kings Island if we were lucky. But even then it was just for a weekend. So when our family needed an…

If you are a part of or even peripherally connected to an IT organization or managed services provider, you probably hear the word “transformation” daily, perhaps even more frequently.  Like other well-worn terms such as “Digitization,” “DevOps,” or “Agile,” transformation can mean a lot of differen…

A loaded question? Perhaps. But in today’s digital landscape it is one that many companies are trying to answer. Regardless of industry, brands that wish to remain competitive and offer optimized services and more engaging customer experiences are seeking digital flexibility. Many have turned to clo…

Maybe this has happened to you, in a large or small scale: You captured some cool A/V from an event. (Small scale, maybe it’s your niece’s high school graduation; large scale, maybe it’s a segment for a movie.) It’s time now to edit it. You have lots of ideas, and editing tools. You’ve been burned b…

Cloud. The teenager’s internet. The celebrity’s nightmare. The IT salesperson’s most favorite or most hated word, depending on where you work. The Cristiano Ronaldo of IT. (true reaction of CEO after reading memo from CIO on Cloud) We are living in one of the most exciting and interesting times eve…

The application development landscape is changing.  Innovation that has its roots in startups, APIs, cloud computing, containers and microservices is quickly making its way into the enterprise and into verticals such as manufacturing, healthcare, retail, and transportation. IoT and Edge computing o…

A recent IDC FutureScape on the future of the cloud market forecasts that 65 percent of organizations’ IT assets will be offsite, in co-located, hosting and cloud data centers by 2018. One-third of IT staff will be working at third-party service providers. This staff prediction points to the reality…

Intelligent WAN and the Branch Problem Most enterprises struggle with their IT strategies when it comes to branch offices.  At the core of this issue is the age-old problem of cost versus benefit (and also factoring in the ultimate quality of service at each price point).  In a time when IT departme…

We’re at the cusp of a cloud data transformation, and there shouldn’t be any doubt that the cloud is going to take center stage in your data center planning. Over the last few years, cloud adoption has evolved from an emerging technology to an established networking solution that is gradually gainin…