Many Small and Medium Sized Businesses (SMB) have turned to Managed IT Services to manage their IT infrastructure, from desktops to servers and storage. And they are doing it for the same reasons as large firms. While the scope might be different, the results are typically the same and therefore the reasons. We spend a…
Choosing a Data Center Provider for Co-location
Choosing the right data center provider to co-locate your IT infrastructure should be done with care and a lot of thought. One thing you don’t want to do is make the wrong choice up front. The cost of making a mistake can be huge. Most contracts are from 36 to 60 months in length. If…
Mirantis and IBM Power Systems: Expanding the Value of the Cloud
Mirantis, one of the largest pure-play OpenStack companies in the world, is exploiting the performance & scalability benefits of IBM Power Systems to allow acceleration of OpenStack and Cloud adoption in the enterprise. Whether it’s Cognitive, Analytics, or High-Performance Computing, together Mirantis and IBM will add significant value to your enterprise by bringing cutting edge,…
IBM i, WordPress, and Open Source – Changing the local real estate game
Our long time customer, Grand Rapids Association of Realtors, was presented with the COMMON 2017 Innovation Award at the opening session of the COMMON Annual 2017 Conference in Orlando Florida. As I watched the presentation, I took great pride in what they achieved and the role our application development and engineering team played in the…
Data Storytelling – Help Make the Data Meaningful
I was having a conversation a couple weeks ago with a client. First let me explain the client environment. This was an IT executive at a fairly large consumer products manufacturer with multiple manufacturing and distribution locations. They operate at least 3 differing systems (accounting/backoffice, manufacturing, warehouse/logistics) on 2 different server platforms, and like many,…