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If you’re like many businesses, keeping your servers up and running may be one of the most expensive costs you have to bear. Moreover, maintaining such equipment involves a lot of manpower. Fortunately, there’s a viable alternative: server virtualization. For a long time, this technology was beyond Read More

If your virtualization implementation is going well, the next step may be deploying a private cloud solution. With the cloud, small- and medium-sized businesses often see reduced costs and increased efficiency in management, provisioning, security, and scalability — beyond what is provided by virtu Read More

Virtualization has made a major impact in many small- and medium-sized businesses, and for good reason. Virtualization allows businesses to downsize their IT Read More

Having a disaster recovery plan is critical; without one, your business may not be able to come back from events such as data loss, service interruptions, and other unforeseen occurrences.

Here’s a look at some of the consequences of downtime and how server virtualization can help you prepare an Read More

In 2010, data centers accounted for 2 percent of the total energy usage in the United States. This is a massive number, but much of it is of it is necessary to run the servers and other IT infrastructure that we rely on. That isn’t to say, however, that there are not improvements to be made. There Read More

Small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have become prominent players on the virtualization scene. Taking advantage of server consolidation has resulted in an Read More

    Making your data center more energy efficient can help the environment and your bottom line. If you’re wondering where to start, here a Read More

If your business is still running Windows XP, the end of your IT line could be nearer than you think. On April 8, 2014, Microsoft will cut off support for XP users, and the company appears unwilling to grant a stay of execution.

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The end of Windows XP is near. Despite its continued popularity (it’s estimated that as many as 1/3 of the PCs still in use are running XP), Microsoft is ending updates and support on April 8, 2014. Read More

Securing your data comes down to making both physical and virtual changes to your data center. From interior and exterior surveillance systems to software that detects system-level changes across remote and distributed locations, you must make use of any and all available strategies to secure your Read More