Expert: | Amber Burkardt
Posted: March 22, 2013
With four busy locations and 20+ physicians, this pediatric practice sees its share of skinned knees and other boo-boos. Focused on providing excellent, kid-friendly medical services, the practice has grown as fast as its patients, but its network just wasn’t -
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Expert: | Hunter Boyd | David Determan
Posted: January 25, 2013
When it was time for a multinational instrumentation company to modernize their environment and virtualize their disaster recovery site, they called HP — and HP referred them to MicroAge. “That’s because we’re certified in HP enterprise, servers, storage and networking,” -
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Expert: | Judy Nerone
Posted: January 2, 2013
“Let’s build a data center.” That’s music to MicroAge solutions expert Judy Nerone’s ears. When the IT director of an education client asked to bid on a project to help him do just that, she welcomed the opportunity — and -
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Expert: | Hunter Boyd
Posted: December 5, 2012
The demands on today’s IT departments are complex. Do more with less. Save money. Stay ahead of the technology curve without overspending. And these demands are even greater for traditional brick-and-mortar companies, which are contending with thinner margins and more -
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Expert: | Daniel Archer | Martha Banister
Posted: October 22, 2012
Acquisitions, mergers, different IT leaders over the years…take these factors over time and a company’s information technology environment can start to run amok with multiple platforms. For a West Coast environmental engineering firm with three different operating systems in its -
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Expert: | JP Patchett
Posted: August 27, 2012
The thought of losing all of your data is the stuff of nightmares. Your company’s financial data. All of the projects your company has completed for important clients. Everything. If it were all to disappear, then what? “You have to -
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Expert: | Rick Walsh
Posted: August 22, 2012
As an IT manager, you have a certain Goldilocks quality about you. You don’t want too much storage or too little. The best way to optimize your resources is by sizing up your environment to determine the “just right” amount. -
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Expert: | Bryan Allan
Posted: July 18, 2012
Say “Cheese!” For a Midwestern cheese manufacturer and packer, company growth is reason to smile. They recently opened a new facility, which required a significant investment in their IT infrastructure. Already an IBM shop, the client reached out to MicroAge -
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Expert: | Chuck Chapman
Posted: June 29, 2012
For one Midwest-based municipal utilities company, the decision to virtualize was easy. The hard part was how to accomplish the company’s IT objectives and virtualize their servers on a budget. So, when MicroAge’s Chuck Chapman asked the IT director about -
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Expert: | Daniel Archer | Martha Banister
Posted: June 13, 2012
For many companies, the past few years have been a fight to hold on to customers and market share. As the economy slowly improves, it’s good news for companies that are ready to grow again. For an architectural design firm -
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Expert: | Brad Kostner
Posted: June 11, 2012
Time is money. An often-used phrase, but one that is especially true for an investment firm. So, when the IT director of a 300-user firm was recently faced with a move, he called MicroAge’s Brad Kostner to help ensure a -
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Expert: | Jason Lassourreille
Posted: May 9, 2012
Purchasing and managing licenses can be an unwieldy and expensive process. But one leading POS system provider recently discovered it doesn’t have to be. The company, which manages a number of virtual servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, launches a -
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Expert: | Jimmie Buchanan
Posted: April 26, 2012
Entrepreneurial vision is the key ingredient in driving innovation across all industries. The medical field is no exception; for this start-up marketing company, the very first step was to design a basic, yet robust, data center to support current and future -
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Expert: | Topher Spinnato
Posted: April 11, 2012
Managing budgets is an essential function of any IT manager. In today’s economy, it can be an even greater challenge when a company doesn’t have much cash on hand and lenders have pulled back on IT financing options. So, when -
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Expert: | JP Patchett
Posted: April 4, 2012
As the year 2015 approaches, medical practices nationwide must be ready to meet the mandated EHR/EMR (electronic health record/electronic medical record) requirements of the federal government or likely face penalties. For this health care provider, encompassing five freestanding clinics, it was imperative -
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Expert: | Kevin Kotecki
Posted: March 22, 2012
For an 85-user metal products manufacturer, when an old server went down, it became clear they needed a disaster recovery plan and a storage system. The company’s network administrator called MicroAge’s Kevin Kotecki. “They were using antiquated white box servers -
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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 concerns and questions to MicroAge’s -
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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 is mission-critical that the client’s -
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Expert: | Chris Pirwitz
Posted: December 20, 2011
Chris Pirwitz, MicroAge Solutions Expert, continues to receive accolades for innovative solutions provided to a leading financial services company that specializes in higher education. And if repeat business really is the ultimate compliment, Chris was gratifed when the company called upon -
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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 also wanted to begin with -
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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 provide the firm with high -
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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 project quality is integral to -
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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, having an information technology partner -
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Expert: | Sam Kruse
Posted: October 10, 2011
Investment banking and finance remain the engines that that keep local, national and global economies moving. As such, any business that operates within these sectors must be assured of always-on secure data management. For this client firm, any migration to -
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Expert: | Josh Heller
Posted: October 6, 2011
Clearer Communication and Cleaner Air Rapid and clear communication is essential for virtually any business. For this manufacturing company with sites located worldwide, an effective, flexible and sustainable communication vehicle was a vital link for its diverse communications needs. From -
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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 bus or carpooled. More than -
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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 and secure data storage is -
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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 design software and computer integrated -
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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 national and international presence. It also -
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