QCM ACQUIRES NEW AVALON

QCM Acquires New Avalon

QCM Acquires New Avalon and Expands Managed Services Practice QCM Acquires New Avalon • May 9, 2022 08:00am MST • Source: QCM Technologies  Effective May 9, 2022, QCM Technologies will officially acquire New Avalon Technology to expand Managed Services practice   QCM Technologies today announced the acquisition of New Avalon Technology of Tempe, Arizona. Scottsdale, […]

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Cradlepoint NetCloud – Wireless Edge Solutions

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Cradlepoint NetCloud Wireless Edge Solutions for High-quality Streaming     Cradlepoint and Cradlepoint NetCloud wireless edge solutions allow you to get the absolute most from your network, and your fleet.  Businesses are connecting more people, places, and things than ever before, dramatically expanding the edge of the WAN. Building and managing separate networks for branch, […]

7 Secrets for Getting Digital Transformation Right

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7 Secrets for Getting Digital Transformation Right A technology-first approach to digital transformation is a recipe for disaster. Start instead by overhauling your organization with a customer-centric end goal in mind. Let’s talk about 7 Secrets for Getting Digital Transformation Right. One of the habits from Stephen Covey’s bestselling book The 7 Habits of Highly […]

4 Digital Transformation Success Stories

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The 4 Digital Transformation Success Stories of Walmart, Bed Bath & Beyond, and others are steering digital initiatives to drive growth and efficiency.  These real-world transformation examples detail IT leaders’ strategies and implementations. You can say one thing about the coronavirus pandemic: Never before has a digital strategy spanning efforts to modernize and transform the business […]

Microsoft: New phishing attack ‘sneakier than usual’

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Microsoft warns phishing attack is ‘sneakier than usual’ Microsoft’s Security Intelligence team has issued an alert to Office 365 users and admins to be on the lookout for a “crafty” phishing email with spoofed sender addresses that is ‘sneakier than usual’. Microsoft put out an alert after observing an active campaign targeting Office 365 organizations […]

Amsterdam Debuts World’s First 3D-Printed Steel Bridge

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Amsterdam has debuted the World’s First 3D-Printed Steel Bridge Amsterdam has debuted the World’s First 3D-Printed Steel Bridge! Would you walk across a 3D-printed bridge? For folks in Amsterdam, the question now poses a real opportunity. Imperial College of London has spent the last four years working with Dutch company MX3D to develop a 3D-printed steel […]

VIDEO: Modernizing Applications with IBM Garage Methodology

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Modernizing Applications with IBM Garage Methodology  Modernizing applications with IBM Garage Methodology is an exciting approach to collaboration. App modernization helps you determine the right path to take to improve your current applications – or to replace them with entirely new ones. Move the entirety of your app to a new environment, or containerize different […]

VIDEO: IBM Cloud for Financial Services Now Generally Available

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IBM Cloud for Financial Services™ Announcement – Now Generally Available On April 7, 2021, IBM announced that the IBM Cloud for Financial Services™ is now generally available. The industry’s first financial services-ready cloud platform now includes support for Red Hat OpenShift and other cloud-native services. First revealed in 2019, it was designed in collaboration with Bank […]

Integrating faster into a hybrid multicloud environment

Integrating faster into a hybrid multicloud environment

The Digital Transformation IBM has made integrating faster into a hybrid multicloud environment easier with Cloud Pak for Integration. Complex application environments require integration with various microservices along with on-premises and/or third-party databases, and multiple end-user applications over private cloud, public cloud, hybrid cloud or multicloud. Integration of these environments can require substantial time and […]

Taking a Strategic Approach to Capitalizing on Data

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To unlock the value of their data, organizations need to capitalize more fully on data analytics and artificial intelligence to drive business insights. Here are some tips on getting started. In today’s enterprise environments, data is being created, captured and consumed at unprecedented rates. With this data explosion comes the need for new, highly scalable […]

HPE GreenLake Cloud Services

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INNOVATE FASTER WITH HPE GREENLAKE CLOUD SERVICES One of the greatest strengths of the IIoT is that it enables the use of data to manufacture more quickly, predict failures, reduce unexpected downtime, and increase automation. HPE GreenLake offers integrated solutions that speed decisions, insights, and innovations while reducing complexity. The vast majority of apps and […]

Driving Industrial Insights through Cloud Connectivity

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Embedded & Edge Solutions – Emerson has developed and deployed an industrial IoT solution that delivers new data insights by partnering with OEM Driving industrial insights through cloud connectivity When chemical, oil & gas, and power companies need to control flow and pressure in their process operations, they increasingly use Emerson control valves to do […]

Managed Security & Reporting Services

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Our Managed Security & Reporting Services QCM offers monthly Managed Security and Reporting Services to help small and medium-sized businesses with their IT Security and Compliance. Many SMB businesses do not have the available staff or the ability to continually manage and secure their IT infrastructure that protects their company and their customer’s valuable data. […]

Professional IT Relocation Assessments

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Many companies find themselves moving, expanding, relocating, or doing some type of move during the course of business. Before you do any moving, have you taken into consideration what your IT environment will need in order to move, grow, and support you?   Have you properly planned and prepared for: • Space and storage needed […]

AI Deep Learning Extends Data Science Horizons

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Data scientists at Stanford University are exploring new terrain for deep learning models using massively parallel processing. Data science is the discipline that drives one of the world’s fastest-growing — and transformational — technological developments: artificial intelligence (AI). While AI’s historical roots go back to the 1950s, today’s data scientists have pushed its capabilities much […]

Keeping businesses secure in a hybrid, multicloud world

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Webinar Available On-Demand – presented by IBM Organizations continue to struggle with increasing complexity to keep their businesses secure in a hybrid, multicloud world. A distributed workforce, applications that consume data from multiple environments and consumer demand for more digital services have increased the organization’s attack surface and led to a rise in new and […]

Microsoft: SolarWinds Attack Involved 1,000 Developers

Microsoft SolarWinds Attack Involved 1,000 Developers

Supply Chain Attack Likely Continues, He Tells ’60 Minutes’ More than 1,000 developers likely worked on rewriting code for the massive SolarWinds supply chain attack that affected many companies and U.S. government agencies, Microsoft President Brad Smith said in a Sunday interview, pointing out the attack is most likely continuing. In an interview with CBS News’ “60 […]

AUDI AG accelerates its path to new business insights

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CASE STUDY: Automaker increases innovation, speed and agility Motivated by the opportunities of real-time insights and improved user experience, Audi was eager to extend the boundaries of what is possible by implementing SAP® S/4HANA® with IBM Drivers around the world know Audi for its beautiful, high-quality premium cars — which in the past were mostly […]

When You Need More Ports On Your Laptop or Tablet, Do This

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Tangled up in Thunderbolt, DisplayPort and so many USB flavors? How to connect all these accessories to your port-constrained computer? Docks and hubs to the rescue. (credit: ZDNET) Working from home likely means you’re working on some form of laptop or tablet, and if it was made in the last couple of years, one thing’s for […]

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IBM Cloud® for Infrastructure Modernization and Migration

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Why IBM Cloud? MIGRATE > MODERNIZE > INNOVATE > MANAGE IBM Cloud® for Infrastructure Modernization and Migration is designed for organizations who want a highly secure, open, hybrid, multi-cloud, and manageable cloud environment. The platform offers a dynamic portfolio of solutions that scale and support both small teams and organizations to large enterprise businesses and […]

Sophos 2021 Threat Report

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Navigating cybersecurity in an uncertain world Did you know that  Ransomware attacks that previously took weeks or days now may only require hours to complete? The Sophos 2021 Threat Report is here. As much of the world shifted to remote work in 2020, cybercriminals upped their game, devising ways to use the fears and anxieties […]

White Paper: Are We Cyber-Resilient? The Key Question Every Organization Must Answer

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Having a culture of cyber-resilience that permeates the organization will allow new technologies such as 5G-enabled Internet of Things devices to be introduced in a safe and secure manner. Download this report and learn about: How cyber-resilience is achieved; Steps you should take to become cyber-resilient; Key cyber-resilience goals you should set for your enterprise. […]

6 Tips for Managing Your Project Budget

6 tips for managing your project budget

Budget overruns are a project manager’s nightmare. These budget management strategies will keep your project budget under control and your stakeholders happy — even during uncertain times. Budget overruns have always been a litmus test for project success or failure. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic made staying within budget became a bigger nightmare, with the […]

SAP on IBM Cloud

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  Migrate to SAP S/4HANA on IBM Hybrid Cloud before 2027 Industries are choosing to run SAP software workloads on IBM Hybrid Cloud SAP HANA is a modern, in-memory database and platform that is deployable on-premise or in the cloud. The mandate to migrate all SAP ERP instances to SAP S/4HANA by the end of […]

Webinar: Sophos Managed Threat Response with Promo

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 After a potential threat, what does your MTR do? Sophos handles it!   If you’re like many companies, IT challenges have increased tenfold in 2020, due to the demands of remote workforces and the needs for security that lie all over the map. You certainly don’t want to leave your organization susceptible to a virus […]

Simplify and accelerate SAP HANA deployments

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IBM – The ideal platform for running SAP HANA Visualize  ⇒  Achieve  ⇒  Succeed Realize the impact IBM Power Systems can have on your business Power Systems users can take advantage of SAP HANA based applications, including S/4HANA, without having to implement a separate technology platform – SAP flawlessly runs on Power Systems, also giving […]

The Benefits of Running SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems

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                                Why run SAP HANA on IBM Power Systems? Thousands of organizations across various industries have chosen IBM Power Systems to run SAP HANA. Their decision was primarily driven by the need for an infrastructure that can simplify and accelerate […]

Deploying SAP on IBM Power

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           Thrive with the data powerhouse of SAP S/4HANA on IBM POWER Considering the potential of deploying SAP on IBM Power? > Looking to move from a traditional Database to SAP HANA before 2027 > Modernizing and moving to SAP S4/HANA > Looking for better ways to deploy SAP HANA > […]

Webinar: Sophos Managed Threat Response with Promo

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After a potential threat, what does your MTR do? SOPHOS handles it for you!   If you’re like many companies, IT challenges have increased tenfold in 2020, due to the demands of remote workforces and the needs for security that lie all over the map. You certainly don’t want to leave your organization susceptible to […]

Customized Transformation Workshop to SAP S/4HANA

Customized Breakthrough Workshop to SAP S4HANA

   Get Started with our Customized Workshop in Your move to SAP S/4HANA Our QCM team of experts will lead you through your SAP S/4HANA migration for optimum business results with our Customized Breakthrough Workshop QCM is uniquely qualified to understand the intricate planning facets involved with managing end-to-end transitions from any system to S/4HANA. […]

Move your Business Forward with SAP S/4HANA: Transformation Considerations

Transformation Considerations to SAP S/4HANA

             Looking to transition to SAP S/4HANA but STUCK on how to start? Migrating to S/4HANA is complex and time-consuming There are many transformation considerations when moving to SAP S/4HANA. Most companies don’t have the skills to orchestrate this transition, which can lead to costly downtime. Organizations running older versions […]

Office 365 Reporting Made Easy

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             Reporting • Auditing • Insights • Usage & Adoption   Make Office 365 Reporting easy with AdminDroid, a leading Office 365 solution provider whose objective is to build IT products that are highly user-friendly and discerning solutions. The flagship product AdminDroid Office 365 Reporter tool provides more than 950+ […]

30-min Webcast Series presented by Precisely

IBM i Security Configuration Webinar

    Part 3 – Security Configuration, 8/12/2020 7:00 am MST • 10:00 am EDT Join our partners at Precisely for this 30-minute webcast series and learn the essential layers of Security Configuration for IBM i. Taking a holistic view of your security profile is critical to success. Grouping together overlapping security best practices and […]

30-min Webcast Series on Essential Layers of IBM i Security

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        Part 2 – IBM i Network Security, Wednesday, 7/29/2020 7:00 am MST Taking a holistic view of your security profile is critical to success. Grouping together overlapping security best practices and technologies into six primary layers provides multiple lines of defense. If a single security layer is compromised, there’s a good […]

30-min Webcast Series on Essential Layers of IBM i Security

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          Part 1 – IBM i Physical Security, Wednesday, 7/15/2020 7:00 am MST Taking a holistic view of your security profile is critical to success. Grouping together overlapping security best practices and technologies into six primary layers provides multiple lines of defense. If a single security layer is compromised, there’s a […]

30-min WEBINAR: Strengthen Password Security for IBM i with Multi-Factor Authentication

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            Tips on implementing multi-factor authentication for IBM i   Stories of data breaches caused by stolen or guessed passwords have increased scrutiny around login practices. Multi-factor authentication has become a best practice for strengthening login security and is now required by regulations such as the latest PCI Data Security […]

On-demand, Custom Microsoft 365 Training for Collaboration (Video)

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                  Customize to Boost Your Team’s Usage and Collaboration   Remote workers still require collaboration to get projects done. For a successful and smooth-running remote workforce, your workers need to be able to have an understanding of the Microsoft Office 365 [M365] tools available to them, as […]

VIDEO: See what IBM Spectrum Protect Plus can do for You

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IBM Spectrum Protect™ Plus is a modern data protection solution for virtual environments, databases, and applications. Easily deployed as a virtual appliance, it simplifies data recovery, replication, and offload to multi-cloud environments, as well as the management of data copies for DevOps, analytics, reporting, and more more. This video (3:56) shows how IBM Spectrum Protect […]

IBM Storage Update: Free Lunch & Learn at QCM 4-12-2019

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                    LUNCH INCLUDED – ADVANCE REGISTRATION REQUIRED Friday, April 12, 2019  •  11:00am – 1:00pm QCM Technologies – FREE PARKING 9060 E Via Linda, Suite 220 • Scottsdale, AZ 85258  To Sign Up for this Event, please email Info@box2449.temp.domains   Discussion IBM Flash Guru Brent Yardley […]

Artificial Intelligence: Examples of How to Start Successfully

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  Some important pieces of advice for starting an AI project at your business: 1) Bigger isn’t better. 2) Start with your data. You may be tempted to dive into a big, impressive project that shows off AI’s capabilities, but it’s a better bet to start by working on more manageable projects related to problems […]

Inside a GandCrab Targeted Ransomware Attack on a Hospital

  A recent attack on a US hospital gives us a colourful picture of both how a targeted ransomware attack happens, and how it can be stopped.   Just before 9pm on Sunday, 3 February 2019, a GandCrab executable sparked into life for an instant, before its brief existence was snuffed out by antivirus software. […]

 IBM Spectrum Protect Plus: Simplified Data Recovery, with Access for Virtual Machines

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  Providing a method to simplify data protection, the STORServer converged data protection appliances use IBM® Spectrum Protect™ Plus designed for easy setup, easy management and easy recovery. Created for virtual machine (VM) backups and those who administer them, IBM Spectrum Protect Plus helps users focus on their most important tasks, such as data availability, control and management, […]

QCM + Terra Verde Services at TribalNet 2018 in Las Vegas

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 See Us at TribalNet Booth 35 • Tradeshow Dates Nov 6-7, 2018 QCM Technologies Managed Services for Your Infrastructure From assessments to bundled services, cloud services, migrations and upgrades, QCM Technologies can help your infrastructure run at a top-notch level that keeps you in control, while also helping to control and manage your budget. See more […]

IBM POWER 9 + IBMi Optimization 9/20/2018 Free Lunch & Learn

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   You’re Invited to a Special Lunch & Learn Presentation Lunch Provided – Advance Registration Required Thursday, September 20, 2018 • QCM Technologies Office in Scottsdale, Arizona (free parking) Please arrive by 9:45 AM MST • Event begins 10:00 AM MST • Event ends 1:00 PM MST IBM will be presenting an update on POWER9 […]

15-min Webcast: Securing IBM i User Profiles

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  IBM i Security Webcast Series – Join Us for this 15-minute Webcast Gain insight on how to strengthen IBM i user profile security and meet audit and compliance requirements, including implementing multi-factor authentication and reducing the number of powerful user profiles. About this event Monday, 8/20/2018 at 10:30 AM EDT With reports of data […]

“Simple trick” Gives Anyone Access to Home Security Camera

  A Few Weeks Ago, a Headline Popped Up that Caught the Eye of… …Security Researchers:  “Swann home security camera sends video to wrong user”. It was clear what happened: the camera uploaded a bunch of data on purpose, and then it sent it to the entirely wrong person. As in, Louisa Lewis started to get “motion detected” alerts […]

VIDEO: Beating Scalpers with Blockchain

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  How Blockchain Beats Scalpers At Their Own Game Musicians get a lot of revenue from their live performances, but they lose income due to things like scalpers and ticket scams. So musician Jason Robert is creating a blockchain-based event ticketing platform to cut down on fraud, reduce price gouging, and help maintain the health of the […]

Actionable Analytics Lunch & Learn 8/30/2018

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   Learn 5 New Ways to Innovate with Data Sorry we missed you! This event has already occurred. Thursday, August 30, 2018 • Gainey Ranch Golf Club, Scottsdale, Arizona Check-in: 11:00 AM MST • Event ends 1:00 PM MST Analytics aren’t static. They should drive actions and decisions and propel your organization toward its full […]

Hear Data & Analytics Experts on Today’s Hottest Trends

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  Wednesday, July 25, 2018  •  9:00 am – 10:00 am EST About the Expert Sessions Webinar Series In this new Expert Webinar Series, some of the industry’s leading analysts along with Information Builders’ experts will be on hand to answer your questions on today’s hottest topics including Artificial Intelligence, Modern Data Management, IoT and […]

Smart road technology could turn highways into crash-sensing ‘touchpads’

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  Colorado to test sensor-studded pavement along dangerous stretch of Highway 285 They’re called smart roads: highways studded with sensors that monitor wear and tear and “feel” vehicles like fingers on a touchpad, and that are connected to the internet to alert motorists to traffic jams and automatically summon help when accidents occur. And they’re coming […]

Announcing: The IBM FlashSystem 9100

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  Storage Systems for Multi-Cloud Environments Now available, IBM FlashSystem 9100 NVMe all-flash storage is designed especially for clients embarking on their digital transformation journey to a multi-cloud environment. The new IBM FlashSystem 9100 accelerates your ability to obtain real-time value from your data, and rapidly evolve to a multi-cloud infrastructure fueled by NVMe technology. Discover […]

The True Costs of Implementing SAP HANA

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  If you want to harness SAP HANA to tackle your most critical data questions… …in near real time, get ready for a steep learning curve and significant cash outlays. But there are several lower-impact approaches to bringing the benefits of SAP HANA to your organization. When it comes to high-speed, in-memory databases, there are […]

Medical Device Security: Hacking Prevention Measures

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  With so many lives at stake, computer scientists and healthcare IT pros… …are motivated to develop strategies that keep patients safe from medical device hackers. They’re making progress. There’s not a lot of cause for optimism in the realm of securing medical devices from hacking to prevent potentially catastrophic dangers. Not only is the healthcare IT industry at least […]

Explore IBM Power9 – Power System H924 & H922

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 Next gen POWER9-based IBM Power Systems: designed for cloud deployments With built-in PowerVM virtualization, these servers enable clients to build a cloud any way they want to—private, hybrid or multi-cloud. With industry-leading reliability, Power Systems servers are optimized for Linux and designed for data-intensive mission-critical workloads, like SAP HANA®. Scale-Out Servers for SAP HANA Built […]

California School District Improves Data Backup & Recovery via HPE SimpliVity

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  IT environment refreshed with HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure “HPE SimpliVity improved our performance, reliability and data protection. It is probably the best purchase I’ve made as Director of Technology.” – Donny Trimm, Director of Technology, Tulare Joint Union High School District HPE SimpliVity Solution HPE SimpliVity provides a scalable, modular building block of x86 resources […]

FBI Warns of Increasing Ransomware, Firmware Attacks

FBI Warns of Ransomware, Firmware

 It’s not just your IT shop giving you these warnings! Ransomware, insider threats, and attacks on firmware and hardware are growing cyberthreats, reports an FBI spokesperson. Corporate IT systems will see skyrocketing numbers of cyberattacks using ransomware, insider threats, and vulnerabilities in firmware and hardware as sophisticated criminals seek new ways to make money, according […]

Sophos SPX Email Encryption – Security for Advanced Threats

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As cyber threats increase, your teams need to juggle a lot to keep your organization protected. The ability to do more with less can make all the difference. As cyber threats increase, your teams need to juggle a lot to keep your organization protected. The ability to do more with less can make all the […]

Need IBM i Series Systems Support?

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WEBINAR 3/23/18: The Extreme Data Economy Part 1:

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 How Businesses Thrive in the Post Big Data Era Across industries, companies are turning data into an asset, above and beyond any product or service they offer. Unprecedented agility is required to keep business in motion and succeed in this post-big data era. To enable this level of agility, companies are turning to instant insight […]

Webinar: GDPR: THE GOOD, BAD AND UGLY

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European Union Puts Teeth in Data Governance The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union becomes fully enforceable on May 25, 2018. It provides sweeping protections for the personal data of EU citizens and soaring penalties for companies that fail to comply. And it applies to you if you collect or process data of […]

QCM + Terra Verde Services: Security & Compliance at TribalNet 2018

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 See Us at Booth 35 at the TribalNet Conference in Las Vegas • Nov 6-7, 2018 HIPAA and CPI Compliancy Solutions to Fit Your Budget Teaming together, QCM Technologies and Terra Verde help customers like you create business value from security and compliance investments, by offering comprehensive security, risk and compliance solutions and services. We […]

VIDEO: How GPUs are Accelerating Analytics for Finance

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 A Joint Event with NVIDIA Kinetica and NVIDIA have partnered together to provide enterprises the fastest and most scalable GPU-accelerated, in-memory database solution that’s used to solve real-world business and analytics problems for all types of data in motion. The unique multi-core architecture of GPUs makes it possible to process many computations efficiently and quickly, […]

VIDEO: The Benefits of Using a GPU Database for AI

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 Artificial Intelligence promises to change how we work and live With cognitive applications in healthcare, retail, financial services, manufacturing, and transportation, AI is already transforming industries, saving lives, and delivering efficiencies – but deploying AI solutions isn’t easy. Do you optimize for compute, throughput, power, or cost? How do you manage the data? For the […]

Kinetica on IBM Power Architecture with NVLink

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 Kinetica is a GPU-accelerated, in-memory analytics database delivering real-time response 100x faster than traditional databases 2.5x Faster CPU-GPU Connection via NVLink • No more limitations from the PCI Express interface connecting CPUs and GPUs • In a multi-GPU system, limited PCIe bandwidth is shared between the GPUs so even more limited Want to see how […]

Kinetica: Powering Business in Motion 100x Faster than Traditional Databases

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 Kinetica is a GPU-accelerated, in-memory analytics database delivering real-time response 100x faster than traditional databases Kinetica is a GPU-accelerated, in-memory analytics database that delivers truly real-time response to queries on large, complex and streaming data sets: 100x faster performance at 1/10 of the hardware of traditional databases. Kinetica’s fully distributed architecture and simplified data structures […]

Education: Why K-12 LMS Adoption is on the Rise

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 A learning management system can help schools better facilitate digital learning and improve the student experience. Online assessments of student achievement require alignment of lesson content and activities. This alignment is easier when teachers use a learning management system (LMS) — a single hub to access instructional content, organize classroom activity and communicate with students […]

WEBINAR 2/27: 4 Mistakes NOT to Make When Deploying Flash Storage (20 min)

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 Daydreaming about deploying a new Flash Storage Array to INCREASE PERFORMANCE and ACCELERATE YOUR APPLICATIONS? Sorry we missed you! This event has already occurred. Modernizing your storage infrastructure is one of the biggest trends in the Data Center for 2018. Before you purchase your new Flash Array, have you considered what could go WRONG, potentially […]

Nutanix: The Definitive Guide to Big Data

NUTANIX_GUIDE TO BIG DATA

 Everything You wanted to know about Big Data Big data is a big concept, but what is it really? And more importantly, how can you leverage it effectively in IT? In this easy to digest eBook, we explore what really constitutes big data, how it can provide a competitive advantage in any industry, and how to […]

QCM Technologies 17th Annual Golf Outing

QCM Technologies 17th Annual Golf Outing

 17th Annual Golf Outing – December 1, 2017 QCM Technologies would like to thank you for attending and participating in our event, and wish you and yours the best in 2018 – enjoy the event photos!  Luncheon & Venue  Sponsors  Awards  

IBM Research Invents Jet Engine of Deep Learning

IBM Research Invents Jet Engine of Deep Learning

IBM Fellow Hillery Hunter develops new software enabling unprecedented GPU processing speeds Summary: IBM Research publishes in arXiv close to ideal scaling with new distributed deep learning software which achieved record communication overhead and 95% scaling efficiency on the Caffe deep learning framework over 256 NVIDIA GPUs in 64 IBM Power systems. Previous best scaling was demonstrated by Facebook AI Research of […]

IBM’s new Power9 chip was built for AI and machine learning

Introducing IBM POWER9

 IBM’s new POWER9 Chip was Built for AI and Machine Learning In a world that requires increasing amounts of compute power to handle the resource-intensive demands of workloads like artificial intelligence and machine learning, IBM enters the fray with its latest generation Power chip, the Power9. The company intends to sell the chips to third-party […]

Nov 8-12, 2017 QCM Co-Sponsor Charles Schwab Golf 2017

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 QCM Technologies is a Proud Co-Sponsor with Arizona Business Bank of the 2017 Charles Schwab Cup Championship Phoenix Country Club Phoenix, Arizona November 8 – 12, 2017 Click here for the 2017 Charles Schwab Cup Championship website What: The Charles Schwab Cup Championship is a 54-hole tournament and the third leg of the Charles Schwab Cup Playoffs […]

AS THREATS MULTIPLY, AI HOLDS PROMISE FOR CYBER DEFENSES

Artificial Intelligence in Cyber Defense

Cybersecurity companies estimate that new malware variants are introduced at a daily rate of up to 390,000. With each hour that passes, at least 13,000 new files emerge. If you find these numbers staggering, that’s because they are. Humans simply cannot keep up with them, which is why cybersecurity analysts are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) for […]

Introducing IBM Hyperconverged Systems powered by Nutanix

IBM Nutanix Hyperconverged

Introducing IBM Hyperconverged Systems powered by Nutanix – watch and seize the cognitive advantage HERE.  Don’t compromise server performance for ease of use. Get the proven performance of the IBM POWER architecture, designed for data-intensive workloads, with the one-click simplicity of Nutanix software. It’s time to bring HCI to your most important workloads and bring cognitive […]

Enterprise Data Warehouse Optimization: 7 Keys to Success (53min)

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 You have a legacy system that no longer meets the demands of . . . your current data needs, and replacing it isn’t an option. But don’t panic: Modernizing your traditional enterprise data warehouse is easier than you may think. In this video recorded 8/01/2017, you will get to hear from David Loshin, President of Knowledge Integrity, […]

NVIDIA CEO Kicks Off Global GTC Tour, Unveiling AI Tools and Partnerships in China

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FIVE MAJOR ADVANCEMENTS IN AI As the AI revolution gains momentum, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang took the stage last Tuesday in Beijing to show the latest technology for accelerating its mass adoption. Demand is surging for technology that can accelerate the delivery of AI services of all kinds. And NVIDIA’s deep learning platform […]

Veeam + Cisco: Reliable Data Protection Designed for Virtualized Environments

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Together, Veeam® and Cisco deliver fast, efficient disaster recovery (DR) for your Always-On Enterprise™. See how you can achieve recovery times and point objectives (RTPO™) of <15 minutes for ALL applications and data with Veeam Backup & Replication, powered by Cisco Unified Computing Systems (UCS). Read this solution brief and learn more on this topic. Or even better, download Veeam Backup & Replication and see it for yourself! Download a FREE TRIAL HERE (no feature […]

U.S. Government Accountability Office: 24 Agencies Still Struggle With IT Security Weaknesses

GAO_IT security weakness

 HHS, NASA, OPM, IRS Among Agencies Criticized Two dozen federal agencies continue to experience security weaknesses in five critical areas, which puts government systems and data at risk, according to a new watchdog agency report. The Government Accountability Office says in its report new report, Federal Information Security: Weaknesses Continue to Indicate Need for Effective Implementation […]

Tip Card – GOVERNMENT

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 Stop. Think. Connect. Government Resources NCSAM was created to ensure Americans have the resources to stay safe and more secure online, every day. The collaboration between the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the National Cyber Security Alliance has grown year over year in the audience that it reaches: consumers, small and medium business, corporations, […]

Case Study: Data and Storage Solutions

BROCADE_Success Story_Jim Henson Company

Best known as creators of the Muppets and Sesame Street characters, The Jim Henson Company has been an established leader in family entertainment for more than 50 years. Less well known is the fact that in the company’s headquarters, behind the walls of the historic Charlie Chaplin Studios in Los Angeles, lies some of the […]

DHS Seeks to Be More Active in Agencies’ Cyber Defense

DHS Active in Agency Cyber Defense

Top Cybersecurity Official Tells Lawmakers Election Security Is His No. 1 Priority The Department of Homeland Security is seeking to play a more active role in responding to cyber incidents at other U.S. federal agencies. Jeanette Manfra, DHS assistant secretary for cybersecurity and communications, told a House panel Tuesday that the department’s involvement in responding […]

Get Connected: A Checklist for Smarter, More Effective Government

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WORK SMARTER For agencies, the to-do list is never short. Lenovo solutions help boost productivity agencywide, helping government systems swiftly achieve goals and complete missions. Between impressive Intel performance, multimode mobility, overall durability, and more, Lenovo’s technology makes a day-to-day difference for long-term impact. To learn more about Lenovo products for Government, contact your QCM […]

A How-To Guide for Connected Government

UNCOVER VALUABLE INSIGHTS In any decision, having the right information is key. Lenovo technology makes it easier to transform data into valuable insight. Their comprehensive data center solutions feature security, manageability, and the support decision-makers need to leverage data for meaningful action. To learn more about Lenovo products for Government, contact your QCM Representative. Download […]

Microsoft Set to Release Quantum Computer Programming Language

Microsoft Releasing Quantum Computer Programming Language

Microsoft’s as-yet-unnamed programming language aims to offer some degree of abstraction from the underlying mechanisms of quantum computers. Scientists around the world have been dabbling in quantum computing for years, but most of the work has been focused on creating a reliable medium for running quantum calculations. The programming languages used in quantum computing have been […]

How to Stay Protected Against Ransomware

Businesses large and small are under threat from increasingly aggressive and brutal ransomware attacks. Loss of access to critical files, followed by a demand for payment can cause massive disruption to an organization’s productivity. But what does a typical attack look like? And what security solutions should be in place to give the best possible […]

PROMOTION: 0% financing promotion for HPE 3PAR Storage

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Modernize your HPE storage infrastructure –  Don’t delay! This promotion expires October 31, 2017 HPE is focused on building the best portfolio in the Industry. Both HPE SimpliVity and HPE Nimble are industry-leading successes in two hot technology areas: Hyperconverged and Flash Storage. Is it time to upgrade or perhaps grow your HPE 3PAR storage systems? […]

Whitepaper: Assessing the Financial Impact of Downtime

White-Paper_Assessing the Financial Impact of Downtime

Understand the factors that contribute to the cost of downtime and accurately calculate its total cost in your organization. Download the white paper HERE. Fiduciary responsibility. Due diligence. Such are the key watchwords for businesses everywhere. Indeed, these simple phrases are in fact the core concepts underlying regulations that cover stockholder rights, contracts for merger […]

Using containerized IT to deliver a hybrid environment

Using containerized IT to deliver a hybrid environment

Containers are set to power the hybrid environments of today and tomorrow In its 2015 FutureScape Report, IDC predicted that more than 80 percent of enterprise IT organizations would commit to hybrid cloud architectures by 2017, vastly changing enterprise IT operations. Whether or not that prediction holds true, enterprise IT organizations will still face the uncertainties of […]

REPORT: How the right infrastructure can prepare your data center for business disruptors

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IT is changing. Frost and Sullivan shows you how to transform yourself into a flexible, change-resilient organization that can adapt to what hasn’t been imagined yet. In a short time, IT departments have transitioned from supplying services to the business to guiding companies through digital transformation. Technology can enable revenue growth, market expansion and customer satisfaction […]

Automation Beyond the Physical: AI in the Public Sector

Missi, Mississippi's chatbot, helps customers with questions on the state's portal.

Automation Beyond the Physical: AI in the Public Sector 26 ways artificial intelligence is, or could, help government do its job. BY BEN MILLER / SEPTEMBER 2017 It used to be that the term “automation” meant robotic arms in factories doing repetitive tasks — fastening one part to another, drilling a screw, folding a piece of material. These […]

Virtualization certifications: Where the jobs are (and how to train for them)

Virtualization certifications

If you want to invest in your IT career, it’s wise to pay attention to virtualization technologies and products, how much demand they generate, and how best to prepare yourself for a new job or promotion. Here’s a road map. As technical topics in information technology go, these days it’s hard to find anything that […]

ASOS Meets Web Demand with KEMP 360 Elastic Load Balancing in Microsoft Azure

ASOS meets web demand with KEMP 360 elastic load balancer

ASOS, one of the world’s largest online retailers with 167 million visitors last Black Friday, are deploying KEMP LoadMasters on demand in Azure in under 10 minutes to provide uninterrupted availability with KEMP’s Metered Enterprise Licensing (MELA). The Cloud Technology Challenge On-premise application delivery technology has evolved to use highly optimized hardware platforms that consolidate […]

Say Goodbye to Your Keyboard

Future of human-computer interface

HPE Insights and resources to help IT pros shape the future of business: The human-computer interface is changing: Welcome to a world of holograms, augmented reality, and thought-controlled Word docs. For a while now, people have been hearing that the way we interact with our laptops, tablets, and smartphones is going to change—a lot. How soon […]

How to staff a next-gen IT security team

How to staff a next-gen IT security team

The applicant pool for IT Security is so small that according to employment site Indeed, “When we compare clicks from job seekers to openings for cybersecurity roles posted by employers, we can see just how serious the talent shortage gets and the scale of the risk it represents for organizations.… Suddenly the language of ‘crisis’ […]

VIDEO: Embrace Disruptive Change – Synching IT Priorities with Key Business Objectives

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When it comes to driving business innovation, do your instincts say “Yes”, while your current system configuration screams “No”? Prepare to embrace disruptive change for the better by learning how others sync their IT priorities with key business objectives. With the Right Mix of hybrid IT, get central IT to say “yes” by simplifying complex […]

Introducing Kubic: a community-driven container-as-a-service platform

Kubic

MicroOS is SUSE’s modern and slightly different take on cluster computing for containers and microservices. This is what you ought to know about it. Containers have changed the way IT shops operate. The technology has made it far simpler to deploy applications in nearly any data center or cloud environment, and it’s become popular because it promises […]

Why You Need Hybrid IT

Why You Need Hybrid IT - Podcast

Listen to this podcast to explore how Hybrid IT can help you manage digital disruption. IT organizations are shifting to become strategists and internal service providers in the Hybrid IT model. In this podcast, learn how converged and hyper-converged infrastructures (HCI) provide an on-ramp to hybrid cloud strategies and adoption. Dana Gardner interviews Neil Thurston, chief technologist of Hybrid […]

Expert Guide to Running Hybrid IT

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Expert guide to running Hybrid IT A successful deployment and utilization of a Hybrid IT environment depends on an effective operations model. Get advice on how to deliver a secure environment, optimize resources and workloads, manage costs, and achieve an optimal ROI. An expert guide to Hybrid IT: This report covers the tools, techniques, and […]

NBC News: POST BAIL (Using Data for Bail Reform)

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By JON SCHUPPE AUG 22, 2017 – NBC News America’s justice system runs on the exchange of money for freedom. Some say that’s unfair. But can data fix it? Allowing people to pay for their release has proved unfair to people who don’t have much money. The poor are far more likely to get stuck in jail, […]

8/24/17 SOPHOS Lunch & Learn: Next-Gen & Ransomware (free)

SOPHOS Lunch and Learn

Join Us! Go beyond the hype and headlines and learn some of the most effective ways to address and prevent Ransomware and other increasingly sophisticated threats. This FREE event is aimed at C-Level IT Professionals and IT Soldiers & Ninjas responsible for defending company data. • Advance registration required as lunch provided • Please arrive […]

Simplify and Automate Cloud Management

Managing in the Cloud Era Greater efficiency. Increased agility. Improved compliance. Reduced costs. These are among the benefits that organizations moving to cloud computing can achieve when they properly consider both how they will build and how they will run their virtual and cloud infrastructure. The right architecture and the right management approach are equally […]

Ready for success with IBM Storage

Partnerships between IT leaders provide very strong benefits to clients by streamlining solution design, simplifying deployment and reducing risk. These relationships also create business synergy in which the strength of the partnership is greater than the sum of the individual partners’ capabilities. These are some of the important reasons why IBM created the Ready for […]

Deploying VMware Virtual SAN

INDUSTRY Education LOCATION Kingston, Ontario, Canada KEY CHALLENGES • Infrastructure bottlenecks prevented students and faculty from launching and using applications. • IT team lost productivity dealing with complaints about system performance. • Administration wanted to reduce CapEx and storage costs. SOLUTION To address escalating complaints about desktop performance, and to streamline IT management, Queen’s University […]

Accelerate Convergence Performance with Virtual Routers

Dutch Provider Cuts BGP Convergence Times from Minutes to Seconds When A2B Internet’s network began to struggle under a burgeoning number of routing tables, the provider installed a virtual routing foundation to speed things up. “We were familiar with the capabilities of the MX Series routers, and once we’d seen the virtual MX in the […]

Migration to Public Cloud

The IT industry has seen its share of technological revolutions, from PCs and the World Wide Web to the Internet of Things and everything in between. Today, we are on the brink of another disruptive paradigm shift as an increasing number of businesses are starting to transition to an on demand digital business model to […]

LoadMaster: Powering the Internet of Things

The promises of greater efficiency, agility, and cost-savings are driving an increasing number of enterprises toward cloud computing. Today’s technology now allows these enterprises to extend the benefits of cloud computing to their emerging Internet of Things (IoT) workloads. Research shows that the IoT is disrupting markets and IT organizations worldwide. This revolution, in turn, […]

Network Automation and Orchestration

Effective data centers are central to the success of any enterprise, and the flexibility and agility of data center operations is essential to successful mission and business outcomes. As technology has evolved, so too have data center capabilities, including the introduction of virtualization strategies that have enabled some level of agility and flexibility. However, network […]

Open Data Playbook for Government

Clearly, it’s more important than ever to understand how to implement and benefit from open data at your organization. That’s why GovLoop has created this guide, “The Open Data Playbook for Government.” In this playbook, we offer helpful tips to solve some of your most pressing open data challenges, including measuring return on investment, boosting […]

Dirty Data, Broken Trust

Restore faith in your decisions with data management At the heart of every decision your organization makes is data. No matter how well your business processes are designed, or how advanced your analytics strategy is, the integrity of the underlying data determines whether you thrive or falter. When your organization reaches out to prospects using […]

Real-Time Analytics with Redis

Next generation applications need to embed analytics inline in order to generate intelligent and delightful customer experiences. Given the performance needs of interactive applications, this calls for high performance databases that are capable of handling a variety of application scenarios at the lowest complexity and costs, with uncompromising performance. Redis is such a database and […]

How Security and Innovation Meet at Red Hat

Red Hat develops software in collaboration with customers from a range of industries, including government and financial services. This not only leads to innovation but provides valuable guidance for security-related decisions about product features, services, or processes. This approach makes Red Hat infrastructure software, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and application platforms, such as […]

Seven Steps to Designating Owners of Unstructured Data

Many organizations are seeing surges in the amount of unstructured data in their environments, even as new data breaches come to light every week. As a result, those organizations face increased audit and regulatory pressure regarding loose access controls over unstructured data that might contain sensitive information such as Social Security numbers, credit card data, […]

Digging Into WannaCry Details: Answers to Your Burning Questions

The WannaCry ransomware attack spread so quickly and has been so disruptive that IT departments can’t get enough information about what caused it, how it can be remediated and what can be done to protect their organizations from similar threats. This thirst for insights, explanations and best practices was evident during the Q&A portion of […]

KEMP Provides High Availability for Multi-site Hybrid Cloud Deployment

When various scenarios had been outlined and the pros and cons weighed up, the customer chose geo DNS load balancers from KEMP Technologies. They deliver the necessary functionality at a reasonable cost/benefit ratio. Running applications in hybrid mode (in the cloud and on premises) involves some considerable challenges, especially when high availability is required. This […]

Juniper Networks Cloud Security

Cloud security is top of mind for most businesses considering Cloud. Cloud computing is creating a new world of benefits for users and providers alike, but is also creating new concerns around security and risk management that must be dealt with for cloud computing to reach its ultimate potential. In fact, when it comes to […]

Drive Revenue With Performance Analytics

City of Irving, Texas Drives $25 Million in Revenue With Performance Analytics  WebFOCUS PMF Helps to Eliminate Waste, Improve Citizen Satisfaction for Texas Community The Organization The City of Irving, Texas, is located in Dallas County Texas and is part of Dallas-Plano-Irving metropolitan area. It is one of the 15th largest cities in Texas. The […]

High Availability for SAP HANA: Cost-optimized Scenario

SAP HANA contains a feature called System Replication: it replicates all data to a secondary SAP HANA system, and the data is then constantly pre-loaded into memory on the secondary system to minimize recovery time objective (RTO). More information on SAP HANA System Replication see here. While System Replication is running, the secondary system, which is configured identically […]

Housing Works reduces backup/restore times over 90%

Housing Works is dedicated to ending the dual crises of homelessness and AIDS through advocacy, the provision of lifesaving services, and entrepreneurial businesses that sustain its efforts.  The organization had been using Symantec Backup Exec software to backup data to a tape library, when it found that it couldn’t recover data from one of its tapes. […]

SmartSecure Encryption Technical White Paper

This whitepaper describes the advantages of the integrated, software-based Nimble Storage SmartSecure encryption feature. SmartSecure enables you to encrypt data and to shred it on a per-application basis. It saves storage capacity and operations time,and it requires no custom drives,dedicated firmware, or expensive licensing. You can enable SmartSecure on any Nimble platform by simply activating […]

Faster Interconnects for Next-Generation Data Centers

With the data deluge washing over today’s data centers, IT infrastructure benefits from faster interconnects. Faster storage requires faster networks. Even more performance can be achieved by using iSER, a maturing standard for extending iSCSI with RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access). Using an iSER solution from Mellanox, high-performing storage can be connected to fast Ethernet […]

The One Essential Guide to Disaster Recovery

IT managers have been—or soon will be—tasked to find ways to eliminate or reduce the adverse impact of downtime on the business. Recent events have shown that disaster recovery plans and data replication alone are often not enough. This white paper from Vision Solutions provides a basic understanding of the building blocks of IT and […]

Lunch-and-Learn with Nimble Storage and QCM Technologies

Eliminate the App-Data Gap Join Nimble Storage, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, and QCM Technologies for lunch! To close the app-data gap and radically simplify your K-12 operational needs you need the unique capabilities of our Predictive Cloud Platform. You’ll learn about: Nimble Storage Predictive Cloud Platform Secondary Flash Array Overview Veeam Integration and Partnership […]

Hot Data Storage Market Technologies for 2017

For 14 years, Storage magazine has presented our picks for the hottest storage technologies in the coming year. This year, our honorees are, as in the past, “newish” rather than cutting-edge or futuristic. All are proven in the data storage market and ready for deployment today. We also grade our 2016 picks to see how […]

IBM’s New Platform for Private Cloud

IBM’s new platform readies open source databases for private cloud IBM launched a new Database as a Service (DBaaS) toolkit for its Power Systems that’s optimized for use with major open source database services. IBM announced a new Database as a Service (DBaaS) toolkit on Wednesday that makes open source services like MongoDB, EDB PostgreSQL, […]

Nov 8-12/17 Charles Schwab Golf 2017 Sponsor

What is TICKETS Fore CHARITY™ Charles Schwab, together with The Charles Schwab Foundation and the PGA TOUR®, is proud to present TICKETS Fore CHARITY, an exciting program designed to benefit local Scottsdale and Phoenix-based charities. Support your favorite local charity. When you buy your tickets to the Charles Schwab Cup Championship through TICKETS Fore CHARITY, […]

Creating Brighter Opportunities for Public School Students

Arizona State Land Department: Creating brighter opportunities for public school students with super-efficient land administration Client The Arizona State Land Department [ASLD] manages over 9 million acres of State Trust lands within the state of Arizona for the sole purpose of generating revenues for certain beneficiaries, the largest of which is Arizona’s K-12 public school […]

Carlsbad Municipal School District – Top of The Class

Carlsbad Carlsbad Municipal School District goes to the top of the class thanks to VDI powered by Lenovo Client Carlsbad Municipal K-12 School District, Carlsbad, New Mexico Quote “I was excited to give QCM a trial. When that went smooth, we had Brian from QCM do all the work for the first few tests. I told [my […]

When it Comes to Security, Protection and Performance Matter

These days, cybercrime is big business. All types of data are being traded, whether it is medical information, credit card information, or the secret designs of your new product, app, or service. Malware is becoming more sophisticated and today it’s commonly hidden inside a larger file, or encrypted so a firewall device can’t decrypt it. […]

Types of Cyber Attacks and How to Prevent Them

Today’s cyber criminals employ several complex techniques to avoid detection as they sneak quietly into corporate networks to steal intellectual property. Their threats are often encoded using complicated algorithms to evade detection by intrusion prevention systems. Once they have exploited a target, attackers will attempt to download and install malware onto the compromised system. In […]

The Architectural Advantages of Dell Compellent Automated Tiered Storage

With the recent profusion of tiered storage solutions into the enterprise storage market, organizations are increasingly adopting tiering strategies to accommodate rapid data growth while controlling costs.  Almost all major offerings leverage multiple types of drives, with varying capacities and performance levels, and attempt to match data with the optimal drive type based on storage profiles. Typically, mission-critical […]

Powering Clinical Applications To Treat Patients Faster

Humber River Hospital, North America’s first all-digital hospital, supports clinical and corporate applications and provides faster patient care with Dell storage and server solutions. Click on the link below to access the full case study and learn more.   Powering Clinical Applications to Treat Patients Faster Learn more about our services powered by Dell EMC

K-12 Network Security: A Technical Deep-Dive Playbook

This paper offers IT directors and administrators at K-12 schools and school districts a deep-dive into deploying highly secure and cost-effective network security. It reviews when selecting a network security solution to meet those requirements, and then dives into detail on how nextgeneration firewall (NGFW) technology from Dell SonicWALL delivers those key components. Click on […]

Fuel IT Transformation in a Flash

Modernize Without Compromise In today’s lightning-fast digital world, your IT transformation wouldn’t be complete without modernizing your infrastructure with All-Flash storage. Flash is now the new storage normal thanks to its affordability, agility, efficiency and speed. And thanks to Dell EMC, organizations that adopt All-Flash can accelerate their IT Transformation. What does that mean for […]

Driving Business Value with Flash-Optimized Storage Solutions

Getting the best from a virtualized environment is a vital concern for IT managers struggling to deal with shrinking budgets, fewer staff, and other pressures brought about by the tough financial climate. Capital investment in IT is typically under severe scrutiny at the board level, while business units demand new and better applications as they […]

Client Virtualization: No Longer a Storage Guessing Game

It can be difficult to right-size your storage solution in a client virtualization environment. Often times, companies overspend or under-configure as their user base expands or as resources change. With VMware Virtual SAN with Horizon technology, the guesswork is removed from planning your storage solutions. Virtual SAN technology has been created to allow scale and […]

Dell Storage for HPC with Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre

In high performance computing (HPC), the efficient delivery of data to and from the compute nodes is critical and often complicated to execute. Researchers can generate and consume data in HPC systems at such speed that turns the storage components into a major bottleneck. Managing and monitoring such complex storage systems add to the burden […]

Dell Solutions for Big Data and Analytics

Data is the new currency. Invest wisely. Data is fast becoming the most valuable currency in this new data economy. It is critical to making your business more successful — and it has changed the game as we knew it. Dell’s big data solutions allow you to not just change with the game, but win […]

Dell Engineered Solutions for VMware EVO RAIL

Dell and VMware make compute, network, storage, and management easy with a virtual desktop infrastructure appliance that streamlines your business and scales to your needs. In the solution brief lined below, learn more about how this joint solution delivers the best in hyper-converged infrastructure for desktop virtualization through Dell Engineered Solutions for VMware EVO:RAIL. Dell […]

Dell Solutions for High Performance Computing

This solution brief linked below describes the Dell Blueprint for High-Performance Computing. From workstations to large clusters, Dell addresses all aspects of high performance computing, enabling you to choose with confidence when, where, and how to integrate new HPC capabilities to complement or replace existing capacity. Dell helps solve HPC challenges at any scale with […]

Five Ways All-Flash Storage Fuels IT Transformation

Flash storage is now the new normal thanks to its affordability, agility, efficiency, and speed. And thanks to Dell EMC, businesses can begin their journey to the Modern Data Center with the broadest All-Flash storage portfolio on the market. Read the report listed below now to find out how it can benefit your business.   5 […]

Is Wi-Fi Secure Enough For the Federal Government?

Jon Green, chief technology officer for Aruba Government Solutions, explores why mobility and wireless network access in the federal government is growing and not a security risk. Access to an internet connection – whether at an airport, restaurant, coffee shop, or even a hospital – is usually available through Wi-Fi in today’s mobile world. Within […]

Prepare Your Data Center for Business Disruptors

IT is changing. You must transform into a flexible, change-resilient organization that can adapt to what hasn’t been imagined yet. In a short time, IT departments have transitioned from supplying services to the business to guiding companies through digital transformation. Technology can enable revenue growth, market expansion and customer satisfaction – and it helps companies […]

Composability Delivers the Data Center of the Future

Composable infrastructure is a relatively new term in the IT world. First appearing on the scene a few years ago, composable infrastructure has come to mean infrastructure, that is fluid pools of compute, storage and fabric, one platform with the ability to be composed and recomposed to meet the needs of the application at any […]

How To Get Your IT Budget Funded

Budget battles are getting tougher in these uncertain economic times. Here are some strategies to help you get what the IT department needs when it comes to allocating funds. No matter what the project is—from an exciting Internet of Things innovation to a data center migration—the IT department needs money to pay for it. But […]

The IT Worker Bucket List

40 things tech pros wish for What are tech workers’ heart’s desires? Consider how many of them you could implement in your shop, and make the staff’s dreams come true. However much you and I may love our IT jobs, some things irritate us. It might be a small, niggling annoyance (Why do we have […]

5 Ways To Transform Your Workplace For the Digital Age

Enterprises face the challenge of creating workplaces that keep their employees motivated and engaged, which in turn should lead to higher productivity. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer caused an uproar three years ago when she killed the tech company’s popular work-from-home policy, arguing that employees would be more collaborative and creative if they clocked into a Yahoo […]

Deliver A Future-Ready Digital Workspace

Businesses looking to achieve the promise of VDI can with software-defined, hyper-converged solutions Offering smooth deployments for VDI with a choice of VMware Virtual SAN Ready Nodes from Dell and VCE VxRail hyper-converged appliances. This solutions is complimented by Dell Wyse thin and zero client endpoints optimized for VMware environments. Learn more about this and […]

Client Virtualization with Dell and VMware Horizon

With workforces becoming increasingly mobile, organizations are faced with having to protect their most valuable assets: people and data. The ability to ensure employees can be productive and efficient, while protecting data grows more difficult every day. The safest place to maintain data is within the confines of a centralized location at all times. Desktop […]

Digital Transformation Enabled by Cloud Adoption

The world is undergoing a massive digital transformation. This digital revolution is driving innovation across industries and across all lines of business—with more ways of engaging with customers, and gathering valuable data and insight than ever before. It is no surprise that much of this transformation is enabled through the adoption of different cloud platforms.There […]

Install Windows Servers in Host and Compute Environments

Windows Server 2016 provides administrators with a variety of ways to deploy servers. You can install the operating system on a physical computer, as always, but you can also create a virtual deployment, using Hyper-V virtual machines and also the new Nano Server installation option. In this study guide chapter we discuss the requirements for […]

How Malware Works

We’d like to show you in visual format how a web attack works. As you will see in the infographic link provided at the end of this post, a web attack happens in five stages, and this whole process takes less than a second. The web is the number one source of malware (a term […]

The Cognitive Concierge Brings Personalization to the In-Room Experience

If you’re a frequent traveler, you’ve no doubt found yourself standing in a hotel room desperately searching for light switches, setting the thermostat, locating the TV remote and more. It’s all part of a quest set up the room to your unique specifications and, more often than not, it’s far more complicated than you’d like. […]

Understanding the Power of Real-Time Geospatial Analytics

I live in Bangalore which is also nicknamed the Silicon Valley of India due to the establishment and success of high technology firms. The city has seen a huge transformation from a Garden City to a IT hub with a disproportionate economic growth rate due to the advent of Information Technology (henceforth IT) companies. The […]

Adopting Cognitive for Better One-to-One Customer Engagement

With increasing frequency, cognitive technologies are helping businesses operate in the past, present and the future all at the same time. Marketing, commerce and supply chain professionals are leveraging cognitive solutions to understand what’s happening across their businesses for specific insights about real-time activity. These “in-the-moment” snap shots are just as critical as historical data. […]

Use Cases For Workspace Aggregation

No matter which industry you’re in or what your current infrastructure looks like, Unified Workspace makes it possible to deliver more flexible, agile workplaces with minimal effort on the part of IT. This onpremise solution both modernizes and simplifies IT management enabling you to deliver anytime, any device access to public or private web-based apps, […]

Next-Generation Hyperconverged Data Center

SE Cloud Factory, which specializes in cloud solutions, is expanding its high-performance compute hosting portfolio with a hyperconverged infrastructure that combines Lenovo servers, Intel processing power and 2016 with Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct. The hyperconverged solution dramatically improves performance. Click the link below to access the full case study.   Lenovo SC Coud Factory Case-Study […]

Deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 – Using Hyper-V

The Dell EMC XC Series Web-Scale Hyper-converged appliance powered by Nutanix delivers a highly resilient, converged compute and storage platform that brings benefits of web-scale architecture to business-critical enterprise applications such as Microsoft Exchange. Dell EMC XC Series software installs quickly for deployment of multiple virtualized workloads. The Acropolis Distributed Storage Fabric (DSF) virtualizes local […]

Deploying Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 – Using iSCSI

The Dell EMC XC Series Web-Scale Hyper-converged appliance powered by Nutanix delivers a highly resilient, hyper-converged compute and storage platform that brings benefits of web-scale architecture to business-critical enterprise applications such as Microsoft Exchange. Dell EMC XC Series software installs quickly for deployment of multiple virtualized workloads. Previously, storage from the Nutanix Acropolis Distributed Storage […]

Gearing Up For the Future of Broadcasting

Chief Entertainment implements a highly scalable Dell IT platform at its new state-of-the-art facilities and improves efficiency by reducing editing time for highlights. Chief Entertainment provides a range of services around sports and entertainment production. Part of Telstra, a leading provider of mobile communication services in Australia, Chief Entertainment is seeing rapid change across the industry. […]

Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery

This Black and White Paper, commissioned by VMware, is a study based on primary research survey data which assesses the market dynamics of the key enterprise technology segment Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery. Analysis is through the lens of the ‘on the ground’ experience and opinions of real practitioners — what they are doing, and why they […]

Innovations for Security and Compliance in Healthcare

This white paper explores technologies that enable organizations to maintain security, privacy and compliance while evolving their IT environment to increase clinician mobility and optimize patient outcomes. Citrix solutions for healthcare help customers transform the clinician and patient experience and accelerate organizational change while safeguarding electronic protected health information (ePHI) and other sensitive data, as […]

How Collaboration is Driving IoT Innovation

One of the most transformative qualities of the Internet of Things is when one connected device teams with another to collaborate on sharing information. From robots on the assembly line floor exchanging data about everything from equipment health to the quality of the items in production, to the drones used to inspect cell phone towers, […]

Private, Public, and Hybrid Cloud Storage Solutions

This IBM Redpaper publication takes you on a journey that surveys cloud computing to answer several fundamental questions about storage cloud technology. What are storage clouds? How can a storage cloud help solve your current and future data storage business requirements? What can IBM do to help you implement a storage cloud solution that addresses these needs? This paper […]

Building Web Application Hosting Cloud Solutions

Decision makers are increasingly looking to cloud computing and cloud services to support existing and new web application hosting environments. The elasticity and scalability that cloud environments offer make them the ideal web application hosting environment. This article describes the best practices and architectural capabilities needed to develop web application hosting environments using a private, […]

2017 Telecommunications and Technology Infrastructure Program Report

The California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office has presented its 2017 Telecommunications and Technology Infrastructure Program Report. This report summarizes how the program furthers the mission of the California Community Colleges and specifically its commitment to the effective use of technology in education. Also included in this report are program highlights, financial charts and future program […]

Secure. Evolve. Innovate. with Windows Server 2016

The cloud puts new demands on your organization to innovate faster in order to compete effectively. You make decisions every day about how to balance traditional IT responsibilities with cloud innovation. At the same time, your organization faces increased security threats from outside and within. For these reasons and more, organizations adopt cloud computing at […]

A Flash-Enabled Hub

After moving about half of its computer users to virtual desktops, the City of Alexandria, Louisiana, realized it needed a storage solution that ensured faster access to pertinent information and maintained high-performance for CAD applications while saving the city money. To provide city employees with high-performance virtual desktops, the City of Alexandria, Louisiana, hosted them […]

Improving Efficiency Through Virtualization

Dell servers help City of Austin Water Utility prune 90% from power and cooling while boosting testing and development tenfold. Delivering a life-giving resource to 1.5 million residents every day would be enough responsibility for most entities to bear. Add to that burden the environmental expectations of one of the top 10 most progressive, ecologically-minded communities […]

Looking Ahead: 2017 Malware Forecast

In this report, we review malicious activity SophosLabs analyzed and protected customers against last year and use the findings to paint a picture for 2017. Typically, the focus is on Windows, which has traditionally been the largest battleground. While some of the report does indeed look at Microsoft-specific challenges, we decided to focus more on […]

Enterprise Managed Application Services

Businesses thrive on innovation. With disruptive competition, new technologies, and constantly evolving customer, employee and partner expectations, those who fail to adapt become irrelevant. Corporations must be agile and efficient to grow. Managing critical enterprise applications has become a significant constraint in the drive to compete, however. To avoid this roadblock, a new approach is […]

Managed Hosting and Application Services

In business, growth is good. But sustaining that growth requires a flexible, accelerate time to market, lower costs and improve resource efficiencies. However, businesses might not have the resources and expertise to implement, secure and manage an increasingly complex infrastructure, and they often need more support than what a public cloud can provide. IBM Managed […]

Office 365: Security and Compliance

Businesses today need productivity services that help users get more done from virtually anywhere while maintaining security in the face of ever-evolving threats. Office 365 supports both of these needs at once with a highly secure, cloud-based productivity platform. The Office 365 platform incorporates security at every level, from application development to physical datacenters to […]

Implementing ERP

No matter what type of business you’re in, implementing an ERP solution is a critical project that must be taken seriously. From concerns about cost and demonstrating ROI, to practical considerations about who will manage the process at your company, ERP implementation efforts require commitment by a project team and support by business leaders to […]

Moving to the Cloud

IBM Hybrid Systems for SAP HANA With the influx of data and the need for organizations to act on real-time insights, in-memory databases such as SAP HANA are on the rise. To respond to that demand two years ago IBM Power Systems introduced a SAP HANA on Power solution. SAP HANA on Power Systems is […]

Cloud Services On XIV Technology

Taking customers’ businesses to the next level with XIV technology As a cloud services provider, NY Cloud must deliver reliable services at all times, or risk disrupting its customers’ businesses. To this end, QCM helped them in choosing IBM XIV Storage System for their business, enabling the exceptional stability that helps them keep customer confidence in its […]

The Business Case for Desktop Virtualization

Gone are the days of client/server computing where Windows ruled the day and end users were tasked to do their work from one device and one location. Today, end users are leveraging new types of devices for work, accessing Windows applications alongside non-Windows-based applications and are more mobile than ever. But managing and delivering services […]

Simplify and Automate Cloud Management

Companies in all industries are responding to new opportunities to leverage big data and mobility to improve service and increase productivity with cloud management solutions. For IT teams, the switch to digitally driven business has big implications. Download this brochure from VMware to learn how to evolve your data center and meet these cloud-driven challenges, […]

Data Backup and Replication

Did you know that over 168,000 companies — 50,000 in the last 12 months — have ditched their legacy backup software for something fundamentally different? This is because the demands on today’s enterprises — the need to access data and applications 24/7, no patience for downtime or data loss and exponential data growth at 30-50% […]

Virtualization Backup & Replication

The pressure is on for organizations to meet today’s service-level objectives. The struggle to meet enterprise demands means availability strategies must evolve in today’s business landscape. For today’s always-on business, downtime and unavailable data — even a few minutes — can have an immediate impact on a company’s brand reputation, revenue, customer loyalty, and employee […]

Ransomware and Businesses

The past 12 months have seen ransomware grow in magnitude by 35 times, and it’s only going to become more prevalent. With ransomware-as-a-service making it easy to launch attacks and bitcoin making it virtually impossible for law enforcement to track ransom payments, there’s no reason for cyber criminals to slow down. Read the report we […]

Managed Virtualization

In recent years virtualization has become a key strategy for datacenter administrators tasked to “do more with less.” Virtualization delivers many benefits that make it an obvious choice. For instance, IT managers can use virtualized computers to generate greater efficiences for existing hardware investments while simultaneously reducing cooling and power costs. As with other types […]

Unified Threat Management

Security tools can’t inspect what they can’t see. To defend against today’s advanced threats, IT organizations require real-time visibility across their entire IT infrastructure—including physical, virtual, and cloud environments. Implementing a Unified Threat Management (UTM) solution offers value, particularly due to UTMs firewall, web filtering and content filtering. UTM allows you to be more granular in […]

Don’t Cut Corners When it Comes to IT Security

Budgets in the NHS have never been under more pressure, but targeting IT security is a risky business when seeking to make savings. The process for achieving any significant budget saving is typically going to start with effective planning. This is the challenge of identifying and reviewing everything you have in place, including the functionality […]

Driving Higher Data Center Performance

Emerging and evolving critical workloads, higher-density virtualization, and cloud-based architectures are continuing to push the limits of SAN infrastructure and manageability. Organizations are looking for ways to escape the treadmill of reactive IT and deploy technologies which will meet their growing performance needs while providing the reliability and manageability to allow them to transform to […]

Accelerating Network Virtualization Overlays

Network management can be a tedious and time-consuming business for IT administrators. Network virtualization increase productivity, efficiency, and job satisfaction of the administrator by performing many of these tasks automatically, thereby disguising the true complexity of the network. Files, images, programs, and folders can be centrally managed from a single physical site. Storage media such […]

The Challenges of Managing IoT Data

The Internet of Things (IoT), which extends compute and network capabilities to objects, sensors, and everyday items not normally considered computers, is reshaping our world. Today, the ever-expanding universe of connected devices includes everything from pipelines to electric meters, blood pressure gauges, automotive robots, cars, cities, weighing scales, cows, forks, and more. Every day the […]

Modernizing IT infrastructure

Modernizing IT infrastructure is critical to combating today’s threats. Breach campaigns can last for months with infiltrators navigating networks unnoticed for significant time before an actual attack is launched. Legacy systems enable this behavior by giving threats what they want – time to operate. Investing in updated infrastructure will help close that window and reduce […]

The New Mobile Workstation

Driven by changing work styles, mobile technology, and the growing presence of millennials, today’s workplaces are changing, mostly for the better. One of these changes has been the adoption and popularity of mobile workstations. Mobile workstations are not your ordinary, bog-standard business laptops; they’re altogether different beasts due to the parts they use, the level […]

The Leader in SAP HANA Virtualization

IBM Power Systems become the first platform to be generally available for multiple virtualized production environments running SAP HANA. The PowerVM virtualization environment, exclusively available on Power Systems, is the only technology that gives SAP clients the ability to run up to four virtual machines containing production HANA databases concurrently. This allows clients to deploy […]

Tape Goes High Speed

Why choose IBM tape storage? IBM tape storage means better data economics. You gain scalability, durability, security, and energy efficiency at a compellingly lower cost than other media. As the global market leader, our partner IBM offers a full range of tape storage solutions. These include drives, autoloaders, libraries, virtual tape systems, and IBM Spectrum […]

Evaluating a Next Generation Firewall

As enterprises are moving away from traditional firewall solutions, there are some key features that IT professionals should be looking for in the next generation firewalls they implement. There are a lot of changes going on within the enterprise, including many shifts related to how applications are used and transported. While this change is an […]

Cloud is the New Normal

Enterprises need to protect workloads, it is a must have. For a start, you can’t protect what you can’t see. So, increasing visibility in order to be able to control is a foundational step. To address these new requirements, you need new solutions and approaches. Common beliefs that Infrastructure as a Service providers are responsible […]

Dell EMC PowerEdge Server

Server performance erodes over time, making it critical for IT leaders to refresh their servers to regain their edge. On average, server performance erodes by 14% annually. By the fifth year, a server has only 40% of the performance it had when it was new. Lower performance and higher failure rates increase unplanned downtime by […]

Next generation PowerEdge Servers

Scale smarter, manage easier and innovate faster with the next generation of Dell’s PowerEdge servers. With this innovative server platform that is designed to boost application performance, save cost, and increase IT productivity. With Dell’s next generation servers, the future of systems management is improved with remote deployment, monitoring and agent-free management, plus automation features […]

Why Netscaler: Redefining the ADC

Applications are critical to run your business, and you depend on your ADC to run your apps. Your ADC and apps used to live in the data center. But today, your applications are everywhere—like the cloud or in DevOps environments. And digital business transformation is changing how they are built, deployed, and managed. With the […]

Creating a More Productive Workplace and Workforce

Creating a positive and productive workplace and workforce is at the forefront of  many business owner’s minds. Providing environments where people are more satisfied and engaged increases loyalty and lowers HR costs. According to Gallup, employee disengagement costs the U.S. $450 billion to $550 billion per year. Higher levels of engagement can improve the bottom […]

SAN Networking – That’s a Picture of Health

Looking to enhance business resiliency while simplifying your SAN operations? A system area network is a cluster of high performance computers used for distributed processing applications requiring fast local network performance to support coordinated computation and output to external users. Read the case study from Brocade linked below to learn more about how one of […]

SAN Design and Best Practices

Various government reforms and regulations coupled with advanced technological revolution have brought healthcare industry and IT together. With electronic health records replacing traditional storage and interoperability, hospitals, healthcare institutes, insurance companies and labs, are connected with each other via a network. We understand the complexity and confidentiality of the entire operation and offer customized SAN […]

Ultimate Guide to Windows Server 2016

Learn more about how to take advantage of IT innovation while reducing security risks and disruptions. Windows Server 2016 offers new layers of security, datacenter efficiency, and agility in application development backed by Microsoft Azure, one of the world’s largest cloud datacenters. Some Windows Server 2016 enhanced offerings include increased datacenter efficiency with virtualization, software […]

Empowering Your Mobile Workforce

As computing devices continue to shrink, and become more personal and more connected, it becomes more possible to fulfill the promise of a truly mobile enterprise. According to a study conducted by the University of Southern California and London Business School, 66% of employees would like to occasionally work from home, and 64% would like […]

Reinventing Productivity

Today’s Chief Financial Officer must be versatile, with great insights and collaboration skills, along with an eye on security. Microsoft’s business productivity infrastructure meets these demands by simplifying the way people communicate, share expertise, gain business insights, and find information. It is a complete offering that includes a full-featured suite of server, client, and developer […]

Deployment Choices for Windows 10 Success

For most businesses, Windows 10 has been a viable proposition. It addresses many of the mistakes and missteps of Windows 8, returning the familiarity of Windows 7 with added security and a modern interface optimized for multiple devices used in the workplace. As such, it is no surprise that Enterprise uptake has been strong so […]