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Will Cloud Computing Kill Mainframes? Maybe, Not Yet.
For companies in data-driven industries like healthcare, insurance, and finance, mainframe systems have been the trusted workhorse in business IT solutions for seventy years. They easily process behemoth volumes of information and transactions and offer secure data...
Four Reasons Why Your IT Team Needs a Technical Program Manager
The sad reality is that an estimated 71% percent of IT projects fail. (Sorry, that’s just facts.) No matter if you’re setting up a data center, transitioning your workforce to being 100% remote, or implementing a new approach to security measures—you’ll be juggling...
Three Ways to Develop Internal IT Talent
In the wake of the “Great Resignation,” LinkedIn has been buzzing with career update posts and job change notifications. With 60% of tech professionals on the hunt for a new job in the next 12 months, you may be wondering what you can do to retain the talent you have...
How to Recover Value on Your IT Junk Closet
Ever watch Storage Wars? The reality TV show follows people who purchase abandoned storage units at auction, in hopes of acquiring a forgotten treasure trove of items that can be resold at top dollar. IT closets and surplus storage rooms are a similarly overlooked...
Should Commodity Businesses Care about CX? Yes, Here’s Why
For many businesses, a high quality Customer Experience gives them a competitive edge, drawing customers away from “the other guy.” But what if you provide a service in an industry where customers traditionally haven’t had a preference or weren’t given an option about...
Why Invest in a Fiber Optics Network for your Business?
If your business is in tech (and aren’t all businesses these days?), you know the importance of a smooth-running, secure network that imposes limited downtime for employees and customers. And if your network architecture is still built on older copper cabling, you’ve...
How WFH Is Changing Cybersecurity and Shifting Responsibility
The COVID-19 pandemic has radically changed the meaning of “business as usual,” particularly when it comes to working from home. Yet, remote cybersecurity is something many companies continue to struggle with, even after a year of living in this new normal. A...
Common Network Bottlenecks—and What You Can Do to Avoid Them
A slow network is a drag—both on your patience and on your business’ productivity. At their most benign, network bottlenecks can be a minor inconvenience or temporary annoyance. But left unresolved, network bottlenecks can create performance and user-experience issues...
The Secret to Making Your Data Center More Green: Smart-Grid Ready UPS
Even though workload across data centers globally has increased six times since 2010, thanks to better and more efficient hardware, our overall energy consumption hasn’t increased that much. But as advancements are made in “smarter,” AI-powered technology and as well...
4 Mistakes Technology Companies Make When Buying Hardware
In a world where every company is a technology company, strategic investments in your IT infrastructure are critical to business success. But before you whip out that credit card, take a few minutes to consider these four common mistakes companies make when buying...
5 Things to Consider For Responsibly Retiring IT Infrastructure
As your business grows and expands, so do your technology needs. Maybe you’re thinking about replacing some of your old, damaged, or unnecessary technology. Or maybe you’ve already purchased and installed replacements, and you’re left with a bunch of old hardware,...
5 Ways to Reduce Your IT Costs
Your bottom line. ...not that one where your butt meets your upper thigh. … I mean when it comes to your business. Yea, that one. Sorry to remind you. I know many days it can seem like no matter how much you slash and cut, it’s still not enough. You still need to...
With Increasing Cyber Attacks, How Do IT Managers Battle Shadow Devices?
Over 2400 governments, schools, and healthcare agencies dealt with ransomware attacks in 2020. Shadow devices pose an increasing security threat to businesses trying to shield themselves from these attacks, according to a new report from Infoblox, since shadow devices...
The Right Way to Monitor Employee Computer Use
Nobody likes creepers. However, employee monitoring technology is becoming almost as common as us being tracked by Facebook and Amazon. Nearly 80% of companies digitally monitor employees, and about half have fired employees for internet and email infractions,...
8 Things to Consider When Hiring an IT Manager
The process of hiring an employee is an investment requiring a considerable amount of time. … which equals money. ... and sometimes literal funds. Depending on the source, researchers claim it costs anywhere from $4,000 to $7,600 to hire a new employee (ouch!). This...
Why You Can Buy NEW Hardware from the Secondary (Used) Market
Based on its rate of growth, the management at a large internet service provider (let’s call them … Definity) thinks they’ll need a certain amount of the latest wireless modems for their customers. Definity orders that amount (plus a few extra just in case) from a...
How Secondary Hardware Rises Above a Global Chip Shortage
Toilet paper, lumber, and now … computer chips. That’s right; car companies and consumer electronics are duking it out over a tight supply of semiconductor chips, and some larger companies have been stockpiling chips as if they were packs of 3-ply Charmin in 2020....
5 Ways Outsourcing IT Services Saves Money
When it comes to managing your technology, all businesses have to make the decision to hire their own team to handle it or outsource it to a company providing IT services. In order to decide, most of them evaluate the level of service and convenience of having IT...
How You Must Change the Way You Manage Your Hardware
Here we go … another post about how COVID is changing the way we do things. (Have college kids turned this into a drinking game yet?) Even the way we manage our IT assets (ITAM) needs to evolve thanks to everyone’s rush to complete their digital transformations. Many...
10 Questions to Ask a Refurbished Hardware Vendor
In a previous post, I shared with you how, when it comes to hardware, secondary is often better than the first. Once you realize I’m right and you decide to purchase from a vendor in the secondary market (I jest, but really, secondary is lit!), there are a few...
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