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Today, it’s all too easy to take our technological resources for granted. Instead of optimizing the systems we already have, we throw money at them when performance falls below standards. Running out of memory? Buy more. Latency? Increase…

Today, functional technology is crucial to the success of almost any business, and that’s especially true for data centers or other service providers who rely on storage equipment, server racks, routers and other networking hardware. But technology…

The premise of multi-cloud is simple: rather than commit to a single cloud service provider (CSP) or hardware vendor, use whatever works for the occasion. A multi-cloud organization may have a dozen SaaS, IaaS and PaaS services distributed across…

When building a data center or enterprise resource plan (ERP), organizations inevitably have to make a simple but tricky decision: should they follow a single-vendor strategy, or use the best products they can find throughout the market without…

Today, business owners in Northern Virginia like to say that 70% of the world's Internet traffic passes through Fairfax and Loudon county where the "Silicon Valley of The East" is located. While this figure cannot be perfectly substantiated,…

Let's get real: if you have to call your IT maintenance help desk, that means there's a problem. Nobody likes having problems, so nobody likes calling for IT maintenance. But in an ideal world, at least they wouldn't make your problem worse…

It's been a decade since Cisco announced "Project California" in March of 2009, launched the following year as the Unified Computing System (UCS) platform. This bold entry into the enterprise server market was met - at first - with a combination…

EOSL Extension: When it Makes Sense, and When it Doesn’t Last month, we wrote about end of service life (EOSL) extension and why third-party extension services can be a better investment than upgrades or extended warranties. However, the…

The Cisco Unified Computing System is the first integrated data center platform that combines industry-standard, x86-architecture servers with networking and storage access into a single unified system. The system is intelligent infrastructure…