Category: Data Center

Servers, Networking and Security: Bakery Needs MicroAge to Create the Perfect Infrastructure Recipe

Expert: | JP Patchett
Posted: February 8, 2012
A tried-and-true recipe makes a perfect loaf of bread. For this bakery chain with approximately 30 locations in the western U.S., baking traditions are supported by infrastructure innovation and MicroAge’s JP Patchett. Initially contacted by [...] - Read More

Data Center Virtualization Provides Long-Term Cost Savings

Expert: | Christopher Reinhard
Posted: February 1, 2012
The director of IT for a local, multi-branch credit union was ready to virtualize his operation. But like many IT leaders, he wasn’t sure of the best way to achieve that goal. He explained his [...] - Read More

Data Center-in-a-Box Provides Secure, Simple Data Migration

Expert: | Rick Walsh
Posted: January 21, 2012
For IT and operations leaders, a company’s growth can bring great challenges. For one multibillion-dollar corporation, the growth strategy has involved acquiring other, smaller businesses to bring needed assets and skills into the company. A [...] - Read More

Data Center Refresh Provides Optimal Functionality for Technology-Driven Business

Expert: | Jimmie Buchanan
Posted: December 23, 2011
As an industry leader in online incentive management software tools and services worldwide, this client firm manages hundreds of incentive-based Websites for customers that include members of the Fortune 500. As a technology-driven business, it [...] - Read More

Hosted Data Center Puts Client at Ease with 24×7 Availability, Redundancy

Expert: | Chris Pirwitz
Posted: December 20, 2011
Repeat business is the ultimate compliment. For Chris Pirwitz, MicroAge Solutions Expert, both he and MicroAge continue to receive accolades for innovative solutions provided to a leading financial services company that specializes in higher education. [...] - Read More

Building an Efficient Data Center from Scratch

Expert: | Sam Sarsam
Posted: December 17, 2011
For a government contractor trying to bring high-speed Internet to rural communities throughout a large state, having the right IT infrastructure in place is essential. “They wanted an efficient data center,” says MicroAge’s Sam Sarsam. “They [...] - Read More

Making the Improbable Possible: Building a Main Operating Server Overnight

Expert: | Chuck Chapman
Posted: December 1, 2011
Time is money. And for every moment your data is inaccessible, you feel the pinch. And, of course, you can never predict when your server might go down. After a string of Midwestern storms, a [...] - Read More

Smooth Move: Skilled Project Management Makes for a Clean Data Center Relocation

Expert: | Dave Siebler
Posted: November 23, 2011
The Right Partnerships are Key MicroAge’s extensive portfolio of resource partners offers value-added opportunities for any client. Specifically, by working with key partners to deliver a custom solution, MicroAge can not only deliver the necessary [...] - Read More

Virtualization’s Role in a Small Business

Expert: | Jason Betts
Posted: November 19, 2011
When a small Manhattan-based brokerage firm started running out of space in its data center, its chief operating officer began looking for a way to consolidate the server room. The IT solution also had to [...] - Read More

Building Confidence: Engineering Firm Relies on MicroAge for Complete Data Center Refresh

Expert: | Daniel Archer | Martha Banister
Posted: November 8, 2011
Over time, civil engineering fully encompasses communities—from constructing roads to homes, public venues to office buildings—its long-term impact reverberates in numerous ways. For this established civil engineering firm in the western United States, maintaining uncompromising [...] - Read More

Achieving IT Goals While Managing Cash Flow

Expert: | Hunter Boyd
Posted: November 8, 2011
Staying on the leading edge of technology is an ongoing investment. For most businesses, it’s important to make that investment while still preserving operating capital.  Working with MicroAge, one marketing services company found a way [...] - Read More

Eliminating the Shock Factor: Antistatic Flooring Grounds Data Center

Expert: | Richard Birberick
Posted: October 31, 2011
Earth-Friendly Tiles are a ‘Snap to Install’ For many years this national communications company has relied on MicroAge’s Rich Birberick to support its diverse technology needs. Working with the client on various infrastructure projects, Rich [...] - Read More

Planning for Virtualization Can Generate Long-Term Savings While Avoiding Short-Term Spends

Expert: | Jason Goff
Posted: October 18, 2011
IT directors have plans. They have visions for the future of their departments — the equipment, space and budget they’ll need in five or even 10 years. As a financial software services firm recently learned, [...] - Read More

Data Center-In-A-Box: MicroAge Replicates Efficiency for Retailer’s Remote Locations

Expert: | Adam Rankin
Posted: September 30, 2011
Remote Management for Business Growth A well-recognized household name, this retail giant incorporates numerous divisions and business lines with offices located across North America. For one of its divisions, MicroAge has been engaged to provide [...] - Read More

Virtualization Project Helps Law Firm Go Green—and Save Green

Expert: | Stephen Bocknick
Posted: September 28, 2011
When a large Midwestern law firm decided to go green, it was about more than installing blue recycling cans. Green meant paperless processes, Energy Star technology and even transportation subsidies for employees who rode the [...] - Read More

MicroAge Solves Client’s Catastrophic Storage Failure by Thinking Fast—and Moving Quicker

Expert: | Barrett Lamothe
Posted: September 23, 2011
Beating the Clock in Response Time Reliable data storage is a key component in any IT environment. Without it, an organization is left vulnerable and at enormous risk for a catastrophic business failure. It is [...] - Read More

The Need for Speed: Recreating a Data Center in Just Four Weeks

Expert: | Christopher Reinhard
Posted: September 20, 2011
The Right Team Makes All the Difference As businesses grow and expand, moving is often part of the process. For this major multinational corporation, moving one of its operations centers in the southwestern United States [...] - Read More

Stick a Fork in IT: Health Care Agency’s Ailing Data Center Finds New Life

Expert: | Adam Rankin
Posted: September 16, 2011
Ensuring Optimal Data Center Health In any health care setting, the retrieval, storage and security of patient records is mission-critical. When that is multiplied in terms of a governmental agency serving an entire population, reliable [...] - Read More

Brilliant! SAN, Virtualization Solution for Lighting Manufacturer Reduces Servers and Allows for Growth

Expert: | Rick Budd
Posted: September 14, 2011
New SAN Array Lights the Way A leader in industrial lighting, this manufacturing company has been in operation for more than a century. Conscientious about staying current in lighting manufacturing trends, the company uses leading [...] - Read More

MicroAge Aces College Assignment; Creates State-of-the-Art Data Center in 19th Century Building

Expert: | Barrett Lamothe
Posted: September 1, 2011
Tradition and Innovation in Education For this Midwestern university, founded in the early 1900s, the challenge posed by its 21st century technological needs was significant. Even as traditional post-secondary education is offered at its main campus, [...] - Read More

Virtualization is the New Reality: How an International Outsourcing Company Improved IT Efficiency

Expert: | John LoJudice
Posted: August 26, 2011
Teaming up with Technology Providing a range of business services ranging from HR outsourcing and finance to IT outsourcing and customer service call centers, this Fortune 500 client company has thousands of employees and a significant [...] - Read More

No Room for Error: The Sensitive Matter of Relocating an E-Discovery Operation

Expert: | Vicki Barkley
Posted: August 19, 2011
Reaching the Right Verdict Clients choose MicroAge for solutions that vary as much as the scope of industries we serve. For this consulting firm specializing in providing e-discovery, a professional and proven solution partner was essential [...] - Read More

Room to Grow: Anti-Aging Practice Data Center Gets a Virtual Makeover

Expert: | Lou Galan
Posted: August 5, 2011
Reversing the Network Aging Process When starting up a business, the goal, of course, is growth. When a company achieves rapid growth there is cause for celebration, but also cause for concern. Can the infrastructure handle [...] - Read More

Tax Consultancy Gets Relief: New Data Center Avoids Power Failures with UPS Upgrade

Expert: | Sam Kruse
Posted: July 22, 2011
Powering Business Success The object of any business operation is to grow and succeed. Yet revenue growth is often accompanied by facility expansion. As demand for its services increased, this MicroAge client, a nationwide tax consultancy [...] - Read More

Health Care Data Center Relocation and Overhaul Increases Security, Savings

Expert: | Nathan Young
Posted: June 24, 2011
Building a Healthy Data Infrastructure One of the largest healthcare associations in the United States with numerous locations and divisions, this client’s operations run and depend on its data center. For a number of years, data [...] - Read More

Assignment from Education Client Involved Data Center Refresh, SAN Implementation

Expert: | Pat Lewis
Posted: June 3, 2011
Making the Grade in Server Design Nationwide, charter schools have been embraced as an educational alternative. For one of MicroAge’s clients, growth has been impressive: as the operator of a couple of dozen schools around the [...] - Read More

Power Failure Solved by UPS Rental

Expert: | Chris Pirwitz
Posted: May 4, 2011
What happens when the data center for a health care provider with offices in more than a dozen states loses power? It’s one of those recurring nightmares many IT managers have and they usually end [...] - Read More