3 March 2017

The Sky Is Falling! Lessons from the AWS S3 Outage




This week, I have been inundated with articles on the terror that was the AWS outage. I have read everything from an article touting the downfall of AWS to promises that their solution could have avoided the disaster all together. Well, as with most things the reality is neither that cut and dry or dire. […]

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4 February 2017

How MSPs Can Make Money with Minimal Cost




White Labeling to Make Green. It’s the economy stupid. Money talks. Show me the money. Ok so we all get it. If you’re a business owner you get it more than most. In fact for a large percentage of you reading this there is a chance you’ve had to put a house up as collateral […]

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29 November 2016

Keys to Developing a Hybrid Strategy in Regulated Industries




Hybrid is a growing trend among highly regulated industries, such as financial services, healthcare, and government, and for good reason – it allows these industries to get the best of all worlds while maintained strict compliance. It’s not a plug-and-play solution though and requires strategic planning to get it right. Like any generalization there are […]

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12 October 2016

Trends in Cloud and Colocation Businesses Need to Consider




One of the questions I often am asked and think about myself as a business owner and technologist is what trends will affect me from a technology standpoint. This of course is like asking what will the weather be like on a Tuesday in June next year. Seemingly impossible to answer. The key is “seemingly.” […]

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3 March 2016

The End Is Here for the Traditional Data Center …So, Why Are They Doing So Well?




I have had the pleasure of being involved in many seminars, data center tours and conversations about the hosting industry over the course of the last two years. Geographically disperse as well as different tiers and designs, one thing is becoming increasingly clear, the data center is dead. Or that is at least the story. […]

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