It can be a bleak day for the CIO, CFO, or both, when he or she realizes that the business’s servers are getting beyond their capacity, and must soon be replaced. Judicious selection of IT appliances may solve the outgrown server problem at far less cost to the company, while still allowing the company to grow its data storage capacity, maintain or restore computer speed of function, and adopt improved security measures.



The biggest IT developments for 2011 and 2012 are looking to…

Platform as a service seems to be a solution made in heaven for organizations with large and growing data storage needs. Sometimes however, organizations have both high volumes of data, and high value data, for which security and intrusion-prevention are significant concerns. This can be true in medical services organizations, where there may be many users, not all of whom are tech-savy, or in retail organizations, where there may be a great number of sales associates with varying degrees of…

Meeting the changing needs of space requirements in a data storage system is an obstacle that has proven difficult for many companies to negotiate over the years.

For example, more and more medical facilities have switched to completely electronic medical records. Such changes place a huge burden in way of storage on an existing network infrastructure. Other times, these problems have come from self-inflicted origins. More often than not, this is a result of inadequate…