Posts by Softchoice Advisor

All solutions have their pros and cons. Office 365 has more pros than one can count. For example, Exchange Online pulls Exchange Server into the cloud as a hosted multi-tenant cousin of its on-premises self. Not having to worry about your email server’s hardware and upgrades is a dream come true for many. Office 365 […]

I recently completed a 6 city roadshow to talk about the NetApp announcements that made up the 25th-anniversary celebration of NetApp (if you missed it, you can watch the recording here). Although the payload for the 9.2 release of our ONTAP operating system was huge, I have done announcements like this before and was ready for the questions posed by customers in each city.

I’m finding a lot of customers are “stuck.” They are too paralyzed by the sheer number of things they are trying to make sense of to create patterns, to set priorities. Flash is that simple, no-brainer thing. It’s why flash is also the “IQ test” for 2016

Increased adoption of virtualization over the past decade and a recent boost in cloud adoption is causing data centers to evolve at an unprecedented pace.

Any discussion of unified communications begins by looking at the struggles IT organizations face today, says Wiam Girgis, Softchoice Senior Solutions Architect. That’s because, he notes, unified communications solutions—the integration of voice, video, mobility and presence services across endpoints, devices, and applications—are helping organizations to overcome some of today’s most significant challenges, in particular doing […]

“Whether it’s a “cloud-first” start-up looking at their own infrastructure needs or a more mature company slowly moving to the cloud, every business today is embracing hybrid IT in one form or another,” says Alexandra Della Sera, Softchoice Associate Solution Architect. Still, as with any new technology, organizations possess significantly varied levels of familiarity, she […]

Flash storage is standard in enterprise companies. It’s faster and more efficient than traditional spinning hard drives. Despite their high speed and outstanding performance, smaller organizations have been slow to adopt Flash storage due to their costs versus hard disk drives (HDD).

Big data is big business. Getting the right insights at the right time can make-or-break an organization’s ability to stay ahead of competitors and on top of new opportunities. The right tool for the big data job Not all server chipsets are created equally. IBM POWER8 chips are architected to offer 4 times the performance […]

As innovation takes center stage of the data center conversation, find out why Lenovo and Nutanix are partners in hyper-convergence, and the new product family they have to offer.

You have no fear of catching Zika, unlike the thousands of people in Rio. Feeling safe, you navigate to the official broadcast site of the games and click on Watch the Olympics live…