After recent battles we’ve fought (and mainly lost) regarding corporate data retention policies, I made a mental note to blog about the perils of data hoarding within your IT infrastructure. As often happens, work got in the way and I never got around to it. Then, I see this article from the digital magazine Baseline.
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When you want to find out how to get somewhere, one typically pulls out a road map from the glove compartment – or nowadays the iPhone Map app. Regardless of the means, the objective is getting to your destination as efficiently and inexpensively as possible. You wouldn’t embark on a long journey without a map and you certainly wouldn’t jump into a business-changing technology decision without one either. In the IT services industry, this is referred to as a Technology Roadmap. It plots the state of your technology infrastructure as of today and where you would like it to be 2-3 years down the road. Before we go further down the roadmap, you need to first perform a network assessment. This evaluation of your systems determines what items need to be addressed today and which should be addressed tomorrow. Based on this information, you can integrate priority and timing into your Technology Roadmap – which together leads to phased IT projects.
Michael BaronTechnical Account Manager
If you work for one of the many companies currently utilizing Tapes as your primary method of Backing Up and Restoring your data, I want you to stop reading this blog, go get your box of Tapes, and throw them out the window. Ready? GO!
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Are you back yet? If you truly followed my instructions, please retrieve the Tapes as I wouldn’t want to cost anyone their job. That being said, I was hoping to use some dramatic effect to set the tone for the rest of this article. I truly believe the time has come for Disk-to-Disk-to-Disk backups to replace Disk-to-Tape or even Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape as the preferred method of architecting your Backup and Restore infrastructure. Take the following points as examples to support this claim:
Jorge AzcuyDirector of Technical Services
Hello again. In the third installment of this Journey to the Cloud series, we will continue to examine the tactics, or components, which our banking client used to drive their Cloud Strategy. More specifically, this entry will focus on Virtualization.
Component #2: Virtualization
Virtualization refers to any technology that enables the abstraction of software (Operating System, Application, or Data) from its underlying hardware. While this concept has been around since the IBM Mainframe days, VMware has been the pioneer and market leader, by a wide margin, in Virtualization technologies for x86 systems (basically what you think of as a standard Dell, HP, or IBM Server). Likewise, there are several Storage Virtualization vendors who allow you to create Windows or VMware Volumes independent of the tradition fixed-RAID technology. Dell EqualLogic has been a key partner for Compuquip as we’ve helped our client’s journey to the cloud.
Jorge AzcuyDirector of Technical Services
In this 3-part video series, Miami Today staff writer Zachary S. Fagenson interviews Compuquip President and CEO Alberto Dosal. In this second video, Mr. Dosal discusses how he founded Compuquip nearly 30 years ago as an equipment leasing company. Since then Compuquip has evolved into IT services, offering hardware, cabling, security solutions, and Managed IT Services to Florida and the Caribbean.
Click here to view Part I of this series: Alberto Dosal Interviewed by Miami Today, Part I
Lauren QuinnMarketing Manager
