HP and MicroAge Hit Home Run with Stadium Wi-Fi Backbone

Acclaimed as one of the “Best Minor League Ballparks in America” by publications like Baseball America and Sports Illustrated, Victory Field is home to the Indianapolis Indians. Accommodating crowds of more than 14,000 with great views, food and atmosphere, this

HP ProCurve Networking Switches and Polycom Create a Secure VoIP

Think phone system security is important for your business? Try being the director of IT for a company in the security game. When you’re managing IT for a global company that consults on managing security and other threats, mitigating risk

Riverbed WAN Optimization Speeds Up Large File Access

Supporting the nation’s major telecommunications carriers is a major undertaking. Working from its headquarters and eight remote sites, this client specializes in cell tower design, architecture and construction across the United States. In the field, its architects rely on the

EMC SAN Overcomes Server Sprawl for Medical Imaging Provider

For a leading medical imaging provider, storage is a central priority. With more than 60 locations across five states and legal requirements to retain images for to seven to ten years, the company was fully enmeshed in “server sprawl” with

Dell Networking Solution Lets Fast-Growing Pediatric Practice Keep Up

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

Discontinued HP Server Found Just In Time

Some companies worry about their e-commerce site going down. Or the business impact of an Internet connectivity outage. For a Midwestern farm equipment supply company, the thought of a phone system outage made the IT manager nervous.

“Their phone system

Dell Scalable Storage Solution Offers Affordable Performance

Speed, ease of deployment, and cost are critical factors when implementing any IT solution. It can be challenging to get all of these stars to align, but they recently did for the IT manager of a national personal services company.

Data Center Gets Powerful Protection with Eaton UPS

When failure is not an option.

With 40 physicians at three locations seeing 600 patients a day, this orthopaedic practice handles an enormous volume of data. Recently the practice built a new data center to manage and secure its extensive

Virtualizing a Disaster Recovery Site

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,”

Expanding Server Capacity in a Jam-Packed Data Center

Meeting the data management needs of a world-class university’s astronomy department and observatory is no small feat, especially when the department is a leader in scientific research and discovery. So it’s not surprising that a lot of data is transmitted

Extra Credit: MicroAge Expertise Provides Education Client Right-Sized Data Center with E-Rate Benefits

“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

How MicroAge Simplified an IT Buyer’s Job

Nine.

That’s how many vendors the IT Buyer of a government contractor’s security systems division had to work through to get her job done.

Then, she discovered MicroAge’s David Knowles and Chris Robinette.

“We were able to source so many

Dell Compellent SAN Provides Efficient Tiered Storage Solution

As your company grows, it’s your job to make sure the organization’s IT infrastructure can handle the growth. For an outsourcing and IT company with an increasing number of clients and projects in the pipeline, its data was surpassing its

Server Consolidation and Virtualization Project Comes In Under Budget

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

Safe House: Antivirus Solution Secures Escrow Company’s Sensitive Data

A full-service title and escrow agency, the client provides extensive and award-winning services to residential and commercial customers in the Southwestern United States. It almost goes without saying that because it deals with highly confidential information for thousands of customers,

IT Infrastructure Refresh and Microwave Broadband Bring Manufacturer Up to Speed

Staying current on technology advancements matters. Regardless of size or sector, delaying an IT infrastructure refresh can be dangerous in terms of system instability or failure. Information technology continues to evolve at dizzying speed; ‘keeping up to keep business going’ can

HD Interactive Display Solution Provides Astronomy Department with Stellar Images

At this major university’s astronomy department, to “reach for the stars” is far more than a slogan, it’s a mission statement. With a renowned observatory and telescope, the university is a leading center for space research and discovery. Students participate

Networking Switches for Harsh Environments

Keeping a company’s IT services running smoothly is a challenge that all IT directors can relate to. But for those who manage services in hazardous environments, there’s an added layer of complication.

MicroAge’s Jason Betts recently helped a client find

Sourcing Heroics: Delivering Hard Drive Enclosures…Along with an Idea to Brand Them

A miracle worker. That’s what Chris Robinette is. He’s also a MicroAge solutions expert, and he and his business partner, David Knowles, take great pride in being able to deliver results that few others can.

When the Director of Technology

Giving Back to Pay It Forward: IT Upgrade Transforms U of A MIS Lab

The concept of ‘paying it forward,’ popularized by a book and movie with the same title, can be transformative. For the University of Arizona Management Information Services (MIS) department, a gift by MicroAge founder Jeff McKeever is doing just that—

A Move to Efficiency: Migrating Dozens of Sites to One Operating System

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

Time and Money: Managed Print Program Saves Both

Managing a print program can be a time-consuming task — especially for a large enterprise with multiple offices. But the right print management partner can lighten the load. When the IT director of a seven-office behavioral health provider based in

Effective Disaster Recovery on a Budget

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

Sizing Up IT Environments for Virtualization Simplified with Dell DPACK

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.

Meaningful Use of Space: Accomplishing EHR Requirements in Tight Quarters

Compassion. Confidentiality. Convenience. They are three key elements of modern medicine and are all key components of a tribal health initiative supported by MicroAge’s Topher Spinnato. Working with a Native American community, Topher met with its CIO to address how

The Power of a Strong IT Partner: Expediting a Build-to-Order UPS Keeps Data Center Move on Schedule

Serving local businesses and families with an array of banking services, this regional banking client has enjoyed rapid growth and success. As a result, it planned to move its data center to another location and install a new UPS solution to

The Search is Over: Email Archiving Solution Empowers Users, Freeing Up IT Staff

For this distributor, shipping steel products nationwide is a complex process. Managing its email archiving shouldn’t be. Required by various agencies to retain email transactions to ensure regulatory compliance, the client needed a solution that was as user friendly as

Expanding and Virtualizing an IBM Shop

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

No Plumbing, No Problem…No-Drainage AC Solution Keeps Small Data Center Cool

Companies with an abundance of data and a lack of space have no choice but to get creative. For one mid-sized Internet Service Provider, serving more than 3,000 business customers, was proving to be a challenge in their small space.

Bright Idea: Reconfiguring Existing Resources Lets Public Utility Virtualize Servers on a Budget

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

Custom Touch Screens for Hospital HVAC Monitoring

Sometimes the exact solution you’re looking for doesn’t exist; sometimes you have to build it.

When an HVAC company’s project manager was looking for a large, high-quality touch screen to integrate with an HVAC system design for a Midwest hospital,

Want to Avoid Monthly Telecommunications Sticker Shock? Call MicroAge

No one likes getting the phone bill. And when that bill covers 40,000 to 50,000 minutes per month of national and international calls, plus hours of online meeting time, there’s not much to like at all. For this multinational real-estate

SAN Offers Design Firm Efficiency with Virtualization-Friendly Features

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

IT Logistics for a Stress-Free Data Center Move

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

A Simple Solution for Windows 7 Imaging Failures

After 12 years of using the same process for deploying the Windows operating system onto his company’s computers, the IT director of an 80-employee manufacturing company hit a snag.

Windows 7 was throwing a curveball as he tried to reproduce

An IT Solutions Partner that Lets Clients Breathe Easy—Literally

A leader in online post-secondary education services, this company’s IT solutions partner has been MicroAge’s Barrett Lamothe since its infancy; once a small organization, the company now boasts more than 3,000 employees and has received national recognition for its growth and

When a Good Drive is Hard to Find: MicroAge Sources and Delivers the Impossible

Component sourcing is fairly predictable, right? Not always.

As Rich Birberick can attest, sourcing some components, like hard drives, can be like finding the proverbial needle in a haystack. For a longtime MicroAge client that integrates component systems for a major

Video Surveillance Solution Puts a Stop to School Bullying

Stopping a bully no longer means having a fist fight after school and moving on. Today, bullying undermines victims with relentless cruelty that often leads to tragic consequences…but not if Kevin Kotecki can help it. When he got the call

Configuring a Custom Workstation for Enhanced Productivity

It’s every developer’s dream workstation.

When MicroAge’s in-house software developer said he needed more monitors to maximize his efficiency, the company set out to build him a custom workstation that included eight monitors.

Tom Echesabal, the company’s technical manager and

New Red Hat Licensing Options for Virtual Environments Saves Client Real Money

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

Cloud Wi-Fi Solution Saves Time and Money

Not many organizations are truly global, or for that matter, national. This one is. With offices in 60-plus countries and 28 locations in the United States, it is a major real-estate presence. It conducts countless transactions across its US network

Designing a Data Center for a Start-Up

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

MicroAge Comes Through; Puts Military IT Procurement Officer At Ease

A rush order is stressful. But add a pending six-month military deployment, and the rush becomes even more significant. Still, for one military officer, responsible for IT procurement, a previous supplier simply didn’t understand — leaving his order unfulfilled for nearly two

Steel Distributor Finds Ironclad WAN Optimization Solution

In good times and bad, steel stays strong. Despite recent economic fluctuations, demand for this client’s steel products has continued to grow. Running a diverse network with layers of complexity—from ERP systems to VoIP phones— the client requires that internal

Finding Solutions Within a Constrained IT Budget

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

EHR/EMR and Virtualization: Health Care Provider Meets Federal Mandates While Maximizing IT Budget

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

Affordable Custom DR Solution for a Small Business

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

MicroAge Helps Client Take Advantage of SA Benefits to Save Money

No one wants to leave money on the table, but a lot of IT departments are unknowingly doing just that.

One large urgent care chain was recently debating the merits of paying for expensive training for a financial analyst. At

International Logistics: Client’s Potentially Disastrous Customs Delay Averted with the Help of MicroAge

As the Clock Ticked, MicroAge Tracked

For this manufacturing client, MicroAge’s Barrett Lamothe has met its technology needs for more than a decade. As its primary IT supplier, MicroAge has consistently supported its 1,000-man operations at scattered sites across the

Multi-Location Router Solution Provides a High-Quality, Low-Cost Alternative for Medical Group

John Noble could just fill client orders. But he doesn’t. Why? Because John is dedicated to realizing the MicroAge principle of adding value to every transaction.

Recently, a client company contacted John Noble about a multi-location router replacement project. The

Focused Approach: Video Surveillance Solution Provides Plant Security and Records Production Runs

For a worldwide company maintaining two large manufacturing sites in the southwestern United States, site security is important—along with quality assurance of manufactured products. While these may sound like disparate concerns, in this solution they are actually linked by the

Avionics Enterprise Taps MicroAge to Vet and Source Technology Solutions

MicroAge’s reach extends into diverse industry sectors and addresses specific future technology objectives. This is well demonstrated by MicroAge’s Chris Reinhard and his strategic sourcing initiatives for a well-known avionics company.  Engineering the next generation of aviation technology, the client’s

DR and Replication: An Affordable Alternative to Achieving Key IT Objectives

When a retail software manufacturer purchased Oracle, it opted for Oracle Database Standard Edition. Because of its power and relative affordability, Oracle Standard Edition often makes more sense to organizations than Oracle Enterprise Edition, explains MicroAge’s Michael Zitar.

The problem,

Testing Equipment Components Ensure Quality Dairy Products with a User-Friendly Interface

Building sophisticated instruments designed to test the quality of dairy products and measure their elements is a complex task. Adding to the challenge is the need for a customer-friendly interface. That’s why one manufacturer called MicroAge’s Hunter Boyd.

“Their goal

PC-Based Telecom System Allows Aviation Firm to ‘Dial Up’ their Customer Service

A missed phone call is no big deal, right? Wrong! For this aviation-related company, a missed phone call is akin to a missed sale. And when the sale in question is for jet engine components, it adds up to a

Trusted Technology Adviser: How a Job Training Organization Depends on MicroAge

The recent decline of the auto industry meant displaced autoworkers who needed training. And for a Michigan-based job training organization, that signaled a need to expand, adding offices and purchasing equipment to aid in training.

The organization’s IT director called

Controller-less, Cloud-Based Wi-Fi Solution Improves Retail Chain’s Operations

When the IT manager for a regional chain of about a dozen retail stores was looking to enhance his Wi-Fi environment, he knew he wanted the most advanced technology available.

“In most wireless environments, you have access points that have to communicate somewhere

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

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 IT infrastructure innovation and MicroAge’s JP Patchett. Initially contacted by the client’s IT director when

Working with DSLAM Provider Opens the Door to Better Pricing for Client

For a global supplier of set-top boxes, DSL modems and cables, ensuring high-quality products is critical. MicroAge’s Barrett Lamothe not only helped this client procure essential hardware for testing and quality assurance, but he delivered it at a significantly lower

Data Center Virtualization Provides Long-Term Cost Savings

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

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

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 consistent challenge is data migration

HIPAA-Compliant SAN Solution is the Best Medicine for Health Care Practice

For any medical practice, record keeping is an essential element in its operations—be it in patient, administrative or billing contexts. With a 2015 federally mandated electronic record keeping deadline approaching, it is a smart business decision for any practice to

Hard Drive: Finding Mission Critical Components in the Midst of Epic Thai Flooding

Natural disasters have profoundly negative consequences—most obvious are immediate human effects. Less obvious, but highly significant, is the impact on industry. Thailand, home to the manufacturing plants of many leading technology brands, is also home to annual monsoons. In late

Cloud-Controlled Wi-Fi and Security is the Perfect Blend for Coffee House Chain

As coffee houses and cafes have proliferated across the country, they also have become far more than quick stops for “a cup of Joe.”  They are destinations in their own right, complete with Wi-Fi access points and various other technological

Configured-to-Order (CTO) Workstations in Record Time

Growth in a company is both exciting and challenging. MicroAge’s Barrett Lamothe knows this—and strives to make the IT details of growth as easy as possible for his clients.

When his client, an aerospace company, started expanding, it wasn’t long