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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 cro ... Read More

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 compan ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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 da ... Read More

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. “Tha ... Read More

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 discov ... Read More

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 welc ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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 tec ... Read More

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 deter ... Read More

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 anot ... Read More

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 regul ... Read More

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 infrastr ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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. ... Read More

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 a ... Read More

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 Br ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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 a ... Read More

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 ... Read More

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 brin ... Read More

Data Center Refresh Provides Optimal Functionality for Technology-Driven Business

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 ... Read More

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

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 rep ... Read More

Building an Efficient Data Center from Scratch

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. [caption id="attachment ... Read More

Making the Improbable Possible: Building a Main Operating Server Overnight

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. [caption id="attachment_1614" align="al ... Read More

Virtualization’s Role in a Small Business

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 al ... Read More

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

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 establi ... Read More

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

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 recen ... Read More

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

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 ... Read More

Virtualization of Servers Helps Law Firm Go Green—and Save Green

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 subsid ... Read More

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

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 ... Read More

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

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 age ... Read More

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

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 manufactur ... Read More

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

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 ... Read More

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

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 professi ... Read More

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

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 M ... Read More

Health Care Data Center Relocation and Overhaul Increases Security, Savings

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 ... Read More

Power Failure Solved by UPS Rental

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 en ... Read More