Blog for IT Professionals

With many businesses moving more and more workloads to the cloud, the job of protecting and securing data from theft and loss is more important than ever. For those not yet dipping their toes in the big pool of cloud, leveraging a managed services provider to handle the day-to-day maintenance and avail...

IBM's Power8 architecture is based on an innovative processor designed to provide extreme computing performance. The Power8 chip has a mind-boggling 4 million transistors and 11 miles of wiring packed into the 1 square inch that makes up this powerful chip. IBM Power8 was designed to support ...

It was announced this month that the Metropolitan Water District will raise rates on its prices for 2017 and 2018 by 17% in the San Diego market. For most data center operators, this could mean a big increase in operating costs. Jason Foster with the San Diego Water Authority says those prices will get...

How many times have you heard the statement “Your call is very important to us?” As customers we have dealt with this type of customer service in some way, shape, or form. Rather than a real person speaking to you, you have to listen to an automated response before speaking with a customer service repr...

When posting a photo on Facebook or Instagram, where is the photo saved? Have you thought about where all of that unstructured data lives?  Today, most of this data is stored on Object Storage platforms, which is an architecture that manages data as objects, instead of individual files. Object Sto...

Do not be a part of this statistic, the unfortunate reality is that businesses can fall victim to the forces of nature. Whether it’s a blaze that burns through your office, or a flash flood that sends water coursing through your server room, disasters can hit at any time, and the most likely casua...