Microservers: What They Are and What They Are Not
Microservers are one of the hot topics today. As always microserver vendors are rolling out their products to the market and the businesses are trying to see what advantages these…
Do These Now and Save Money on Your Data Center
Running a data center is really costly. From monitoring the infrastructure to cooling every step that you take means some payment. Actually, there are many ways which you can “cut…
Teach Your Old Servers New Tricks
Your servers may have reached your end of life but there are still tasks they can do. With the existing hardware or with some small upgrades you can put them…
CIO Perspective: How to Reduce Software Maintenance Work
Software maintenance is unavoidable and a dreaded type of work. Almost 50% of IT department’s time is spent on software maintenance tasks: it is one of the major headaches of…
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure in the Mobile World
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure is here for more than a decade. With our team we have designed, implemented, managed terminal/remote desktop server infrastructure with almost all Windows Server releases, from 2003…
Rethinking Data Center Operations in IoT Era
There are interesting notes from Gartner’s Infrastructure, Operations and Data Center Summit 2014 held on May 21-22 in Sydney. Quoting directly from Fabrizio Biscotti, research director at Gartner, “IoT deployments…
Project Management: Cost Is Not the Only Success Factor
The first paragraph of any project management introduction defines the project’s success with the balance of scope, time and cost. In an ideal world that is the case, but we…
IT Pros: Get Close to the Business
Technology is changing constantly but it is a question whether the IT departments can adapt the same. A long standing problem of the IT department is establishing great relationships with…
Big Data #11: What Big Data Doesn’t Do
Big Data was one the biggest hypes in 2012 and more or less continuing its glory today. Many corporations rushed to embrace it hoping that it will solve the long-standing…
Big Data #10: Don’t Fear Experimenting
Many corporations fail to play with big data after making so much investments. The market dynamics and the competition points them to big data analytics but often they cannot reap…
CIO Perspective: Traditional Strategies Still In Place
Social enterprises, enterprise collaboration, bring your own device (BYOD), new development methodologies are the changes that the affect the organizations as a whole and the IT departments is no exception….
Why Office 365 Is a Better Choice for Your Business
After more than two years in the field discussing and implementing Office 365 and Google Apps, trying to decide between the pros and cons of both, I can say that…