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SUCCESS STORY: CentricsIT Provides Consulting Firm with a Complete Data Center Refresh During the Microchip Shortage BUSINESS CHALLENGES The consulting firm wanted to do a full data center refresh across four of its locations in the southeast (including a disaster recovery site) for its core and edge networking, [...]

How to Plan for a Wireless Assessment A Guide for Leaders at All Levels When you hear the phrase “wireless assessment,” a few thoughts immediately spring to mind: daunting, time consuming, labor intensive, and—worst of all—potential for mistakes. You probably have a good idea of which areas you had troubles with in the past [...]

IT Decommission: Ensuring Data Security and Brand Protection Don’t Take Chances with Your Next Decommission Project. No one wants to be the next big data breach. And because data is one of your company’s most valuable assets, you must guard it by whatever means necessary. What happens when you start decommissioning units and recycling [...]

A Smarter Way to Hybrid Cloud If you haven’t already considered or been tasked with moving some or all your infrastructure to the cloud, we have news for you: It’s coming. And if you’re like most IT organizations, you’re being asked to do more with little to no budgetary increase each year. Either that, [...]

Consolidate IT Vendors to Regain Control of Procurement, Facilities, Costs, and More With employee turnover, added complexities of M&As, and other natural complications, your organization could fall out of place with the global marketplace. But when industry fluctuations occur, your company needs robust processes and established protocols in place to help you stay on [...]

IT Maintenance and Support Is Vital for Your Business Whether you’re a Fortune 500 or a newly launched startup, if you have enterprise IT equipment, you need maintenance. You have vital storage infrastructure to maintain and secure, and if it goes down, so does your business. Yes, quality maintenance contracts are essential to keeping [...]

Rise Above the Recession Navigating The Slowdown and Economic Rebound The state of business has changed, and while there are multiple forecasts and projections out there, no one knows when the economy will return to a state of normalcy. Companies weren’t prepared before−but they can be now. With locations closed, and full teams operating [...]

Task Outsourcing The Rise of On-Demand Field Services in IT “Do more with less,” has become a trope in the industry, whether it be out of lean team necessity or a desire to be more efficient with finances. Gone are the days of highly-specialized hardware and software engineers—in the past, there could be 150-member [...]

IBM Maintenance Preparing for the IBM POWER7 EOSL Date When your OEM announces EOL (and then, later, EOSL) on your critical equipment, you’re forced to make an immediate decision. Whether you decide to upgrade your units, continue OEM support at an inflated cost, or switch to a third-party maintenance provider, the decision shouldn’t come [...]

Scale Better Hardware-as-a-Service Revolutionizes the Way You Handle IT Projects Traditional enterprise hardware procurement is limited and expensive, especially when workloads and projects fluctuate. Idle hardware costs you more than just a considerable CAPEX investment; it also takes up valuable real estate in your data center. Many companies have turned to leasing or renting [...]