Today, March 31st, is World Backup Day! If the thought of watching your cell phone drop slowly toward a pool of water or the idea of turning on your computer and getting the dreaded blue screen of death causes you massive anxiety, World Back Up Day i…

Joanna Schloss is our subject matter expert in data warehousing, business analytics, business intelligence and big data analytics. Along with her work on data and information management in the Dell Center of Excellence, Joanna speaks and publishes fr…

If 40,000 tickets for a high-demand concert went on sale at noon today, Ticketmaster could accept all the orders and sell out the venue by 12:03 P.M. That’s one smooth-running, high-availability box office. I mentioned in my previous post

How much technology was in your classroom when you were in school? How much is in your children’s classrooms? How much do you think will be in their children’s classrooms? Look at three big reasons why technology holds so much potential

If you are an MSP looking for the next service to add to your portfolio, I recommend that you look at backup and recovery services. Cloud services are gaining mainstream adoption as more become available from local and regional providers. IDC researc…

We have been talking a lot in this e-book and blog series about how to move away from technology tunnel vision and take a more holistic view of your IT environment, whether it’s through centralized management for all connected devices or by expanding

Root canal, appendectomy, IT audit. Which is the most painful? Well, considering you’re numb with your feet up for the first two, I’d have to pick the latter. Few things in life are more of a pain, and cause more stress, than the dreaded

Getting a hospital or medical practice ready for electronic medical records (EMR) software is a big enough task, but what if the software was more than your current hardware could handle? Green Clinic in Louisiana had to deal with that. The clinic

The mature and stable backup market has seen an influx of innovative technologies over the past few years and organizations can now choose a mix of backup technologies that are just right for them. Backup-to-tape is slowly being phased out and replac…

We’ve been talking a lot about effective software deployment and management throughout this blog series. But there’s one critical element we have yet to discuss: data protection and data recovery. Today, everyone wants be connected 24 hours

Today, the world celebrates #WomenInSTEM, promoting women in Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM). Ada Lovelace, a British mathematician who is recognized as the first computer programmer, Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, and…

The more money you invest in IT, the greater the return you want on your investment. Estimates from IDC show that worldwide healthcare IT spending will rise from $115 billion this year to $135.7 billion by 2019. That means you and your counterparts a…