It’s a fact of life in modern business and industry: You’ll amass more data by the end of the month than you likely did over an entire 12 months just a few years ago. The bottom line is that data isn’t going away any time soon, and it grows in quantity and importance with each […]
Listen carefully. Do you hear it? That eerie hissing noise? It’s not a plumbing issue. It’s the sound of your data — growing exponentially by the nanosecond. With every breath and every blink of an eye, your data continues to grow, subtly yet inexorably. Think snow: The flakes fly, first one, and then another, and […]
It was pure magic. Make that pure MAGIC: The Mid-Atlantic Group of IBMi Collaborators. SIAS worked in conjunction with our reseller partner, Hamway Software Solutions, to help create a new IBM Power Users group to support this underserved region. It nearly didn’t happen. With weather looming, organizers of this first-ever MAGIC event were skeptical about […]
While cloud computing and IBM Power systems have been employed for years, their use on a massive scale is only in its infancy. What is the state of the industry? What does the future of cloud storage hold? How can businesses harness the power of cloud storage and cognizant computing to maximize ROI? Eric Herzog, […]
The healthcare industry, like many data-intensive industries, is changing rapidly, and that includes how healthcare providers manage, store, retrieve and protect mountains of sensitive information. Increasingly healthcare IT managers are turning to cloud solutions and services; it’s a trend that promises only to increase as data management needs expand and IT experts require effective, state-of-the-art […]
Insurance isn’t a front-of-mind concern for most businesses on a day-to-day basis. That is, until something bad happens and you need to make a claim. Then it becomes a critical part of doing business. Securing data is very much the same idea: Companies continue to store data on a daily basis and IT managers hope […]
In the IBM Power Systems universe, knowledge is power. Yet finding the latest and best information and hands-on training for this technology platform has sometimes been a challenge in many locales, including the Mid-Atlantic region. But take note: A new conference scheduled to take place in October in Virginia will shed a bright light on […]
Secure Infrastructure & Services recently sponsored two insightful technology events – Apachecon North America and the 2016 Common Annual Meeting & Exposition. ApacheCon, hosted in Vancouver BC on May 11-13, provided an opportunity to learn more about Linux and Apache projects and forge relationships with the Open Source community. Chuck Paolillo, CTO of SIAS, and […]
SANs were a great leap forward for reliable centralized data storage. Yet storing most of the company data on a single SAN presented challenges for IT managers, who feared that a catastrophic event such as a flood or fire might damage or destroy priceless stored data. Replication is the ideal solution to protect data against […]
Applications are the lifeblood of your business. Should a power failure or some unforeseen event occur that results in unplanned downtime, it can wreak havoc in the form of the lost priceless data. The ensuing costs to your company can be astronomical and might take years to recoup. Or your business may never recover. Before […]
