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HP and MicroAge Hit Home Run with Stadium Wi-Fi Backbone
Posted: May 21, 2013
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
Posted: March 28, 2013
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
Posted: March 5, 2013
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
Posted: February 5, 2013
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
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. “Tha ... Read More
Expanding Server Capacity in a Jam-Packed Data Center
Posted: January 14, 2013
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
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 welc ... Read More
Server Consolidation and Virtualization Project Comes In Under Budget
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 ... Read More
IT Infrastructure Refresh and Microwave Broadband Bring Manufacturer Up to Speed
Posted: November 28, 2012
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
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 deter ... Read More
The Power of a Strong IT Partner: Expediting a Build-to-Order UPS Keeps Data Center Move on Schedule
Posted: August 2, 2012
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
Posted: July 25, 2012
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
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 infrastr ... Read More
No Plumbing, No Problem…No-Drainage AC Solution Keeps Small Data Center Cool
Posted: July 12, 2012
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
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. ... Read More
SAN Offers Design Firm Efficiency with Virtualization-Friendly Features
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 a ... Read More
IT Logistics for a Stress-Free Data Center Move
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 Br ... Read More
Designing a Data Center for a Start-Up
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 ... Read More
Finding Solutions Within a Constrained IT Budget
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 ... Read More
Servers, Networking and Security: Bakery Needs MicroAge to Create the Perfect Infrastructure Recipe
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 IT infrastructure innovation a ... Read More
Data Center Virtualization Provides Long-Term Cost Savings
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
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 brin ... Read More
Data Center Refresh Provides Optimal Functionality for Technology-Driven Business
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 ... Read More
Hosted Data Center Puts Client at Ease with 24×7 Availability, Redundancy
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 rep ... Read More
Building an Efficient Data Center from Scratch
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. [caption id="attachment ... Read More
Making the Improbable Possible: Building a Main Operating Server Overnight
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. [caption id="attachment_1614" align="al ... Read More
Virtualization’s Role in a Small Business
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 al ... Read More
Building Confidence: Engineering Firm Relies on MicroAge for Complete Data Center Refresh
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 establi ... Read More
Planning for Virtualization Can Generate Long-Term Savings While Avoiding Short-Term Spends
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 recen ... Read More
Data Center-In-A-Box: MicroAge Replicates Efficiency for Retailer’s Remote Locations
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 ... Read More
Virtualization of Servers Helps Law Firm Go Green—and Save Green
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 subsid ... Read More
The Need for Speed: Recreating a Data Center in Just Four Weeks
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 ... Read More
Stick a Fork in IT: Health Care Agency’s Ailing Data Center Finds New Life
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 age ... Read More
Brilliant! SAN, Virtualization Solution for Lighting Manufacturer Reduces Servers and Allows for Growth
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 manufactur ... Read More
MicroAge Aces College Assignment; Creates State-of-the-Art Data Center in 19th Century Building
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 ... Read More
No Room for Error: The Sensitive Matter of Relocating an E-Discovery Operation
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 professi ... Read More
Tax Consultancy Gets Relief: New Data Center Avoids Power Failures with UPS Upgrade
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 M ... Read More
Health Care Data Center Relocation and Overhaul Increases Security, Savings
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 ... Read More
Power Failure Solved by UPS Rental
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 en ... Read More




