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Project management is a hot topic lately. Recently we’ve heard about the rise of project managers in a variety of fields, such as legal, sports and government. But this recent fame doesn’t mean we’ve gone mainstream. It’s likely that most people still don’t have a full grasp of what project managers do, why they are valuable, and what they can really mean to an organization

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As someone who loves the latest and greatest technology, I’ve always felt that backup software didn’t advance at the same pace as other technologies. Just a few short years ago I was peeling off barcode labels and applying them to tapes, followed by documenting these barcodes on an Excel spreadsheet and entering them one at a time on a terribly designed website for an off-site tape storage vendor...

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Many companies have invested in VMware infrastructure software and have a lot of knowledge in supporting on-premise virtual servers. The VMware vCenter Server is extremely popular for managing virtual machines and providing automation for distributing resources evenly across a cluster of servers. There is a comfort in having direct vendor support from VMware for ensuring a stable production...

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OK, so this was me before the ridge wallet. I had always thought about downsizing my wallet to something smaller, but I simply couldn’t wrap my head around not having everything I “needed”.

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Both Amazon AWSand Microsoft Azure sell the idea of inherent high-availability and scalability within their cloud services. Many companies bought into that idea and dove head-first thinking that, once in the cloud, the provider will provide the redundancy natively. With the recent AWS S3 outage many customers learned the hard way that this is not the case. There is still a need for customers to... Continue reading

In this Fireside Chat CEO, Sean Barr, sits down with Principal Network Architect, Trevor Butler, to discuss a solution taking the industry by storm: Amazon Web Services. Sit back, relax, and enjoy another fireside chat.

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By now I am sure most of us have heard of Amazon’s AWS, or Amazon Web Services, but how many of us know of its full potential. The biggest myth around AWS is that it is a cloud service for developers and doesn’t have a place for the enterprise environment however, while AWS offers a lot of platform services aimed at the developer, at its core, it offers a set of rich infrastructure services....

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LookingPoint is pleased to announce the official partnership with Tegile, a privately held enterprise storage vendor headquartered in Silicon Valley, California. As a Channel Partner LookingPoint will leverage Tegile’s enterprise storage solutions and team of product experts to deliver the highest quality storage experience to our customers. Partnering with a vendor that provides both all-flash...

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I had the pleasure of spending this week enjoying Cisco’s 10th Marketing Velocity conference in Chicago, IL. Cisco Marketing Velocity brings partners from all over the world together to hear from Cisco executives and industry experts to help get inspired, energize marketing practices, and learn what’s coming next. The world of marketing has changed drastically since Marketing Velocity debuted, as...

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The last day of Marketing Velocity was as energizing and inspiring as the last two. The morning’s sessions built on yesterday’s theme of humanizing marketing in a digital world.

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