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…
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,…
Where Are You Going to Store Your Data? Large, High Speed Disk? Flash? DNA?…… DNA?
Four years ago researchers at Harvard University were able to successfully store 700 terabytes of data in a gram of DNA. It wasn’t the first time that DNA was successfully used to store data but it was the first time that a very large volume of data was stored successfully. The work done at Harvard’s…
Out growing your IBM Power system internal disk? Expansion drawer or Bigger Drives?
Anyone who has worked with IBM i knows how important disk I/O is to system performance. You can throw a 60,000 CPW, IBM Power System running IBM i, flat on its back if it’s not given the disk resources it needs to read and write at a pace greater then what the user demands. The…