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Learning Videos
The Simplification Effect: 4 Cases
It’s no secret that in the past several years there has been a huge push to “cloud-based services.” These services provide corporations with the promise of reduced operational costs, CPU/memory and OSs on demand to combat having underutilized equipment, storage as...
The “Tipping” Point in a Multi-Cloud Model: Signs You Need a 3rd-Party Cloud Management Platform
Organizations of all sizes, and across all industries, have realized that Digital Transformation (DX) is mandatory to remain competitive, and cloud is a key enabler of digital transformation. According to an IDC study, 85 percent of cloud adopters have multiple types...
MSPs: Comparative Data Analytics
Managed services and comparative data analytics. What does that mean exactly? In this video we break it down.
AWS: This Is My Architecture
In this installment of the AWS YouTube series, This Is My Architecture, Bob Pease, Director of Engineering at CloudCheckr, explains how they built a flexible, scalable solution on AWS that leverages Windows Server on EC2, RDS for SQL Server, IAM, and S3. CloudCheckr's...
MSP Metrics – Most Are Missing the Point
I'm a middle-aged husband and father of three daughters. I have fond memories of the baby and toddler days, and am amazed we were able to muster the energy to persevere through them! When the girls were young some of the most exciting days were the doctor appointments...
5 Security Free-Trial Offers You Should Take Advantage Of
Imagine if you could take a car off the dealer's lot and drive it around for a couple weeks, for free, before you have to commit to purchasing it. See how it handles. See how it performs. See how it fits in your garage. The word "free" is seldom associated with...
What the “New NOC” Is…and Is Not
Having graduated from college in 1993, I entered the workforce as a regional sales rep and was handed a fax machine to receive my daily updates of inventory I could sell, and a pager so I could be contacted. It seemed so efficient at the time - - getting daily updates...
These 5 Books Will Make You Better At What You Do
OK, so most people post in December or January with their list of their favorite books of the past year. But it's summer in TX, and perhaps the heat is getting to me and making me think more about how to work smarter and have more of an impact. That led me to going...
The Cloud is Ending IT Careers. Do You Have a Plan?
I’ve worked with hundreds of I.T. Directors and VPs in the past 20 years. I call myself a friend to many Network, Server, and Storage Admins. I respect all of you and I hope you’re all doing well. Most of you have heard from me in the last 12 months. Some have even...
Network Security Challenge: Put Your Security Visibility to the Test
The security landscape changes at such a rapid pace that it’s nearly impossible for security, IT or business leaders to stay on top, let alone ahead, of the latest threats and how they can best protect their sensitive data.The most dangerous threats are the ones you...
The Five Levels of Cloud “Maturity”: Answer 15 Questions and Find Out Where Your Organization Ranks
Cloud is recognized by just about every CIO in the world as a key enabler of digital transformation (and, consequently, better business outcomes, like increased revenue and more strategic allocation of IT budget). But, while cloud adoption continues to grow,...
Where Managed Services Works … and Where It Doesn’t
Commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin, the quote "...nothing in this world can be said to be certain but death and taxes..." seems more true everyday, and—just having gone through federal tax filing—it’s more painful than ever! Interestingly though, we love to...
The Evolution (or Extinction) of the “Traditional” VAR
In biology, evolution is described as the “change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. Evolutionary processes give rise to biodiversity at every level of biological organization, including the levels of species,...