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Cloud Therapy: EP 016 – Growing Infrastructure without Money Creates IT Heroes

  UnitedLayer sales engineer, Saad Saleem tells Mike a customer story from six months ago, where an IT team became heroes by expanding their IT infrastructure without spending money. Mike also offers a huge time-saving, free gift to our podcast

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Cloud Therapy: EP 014 – Local Causes of Cloud Latency

If you are afraid of latency with your company’s cloud applications, the easiest “first step” is to understand the possible causes within your own local environment. Matrix IBS Director of Sales Engineering, Rich Erickson, discusses the most common local culprits of

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Cloud Therapy: EP 008 – Overcoming BareMetal Cloud Hurdles

  Internap‘s Director of Solutions Engineering, Paul Herrick, discusses 2 great tips on how to overcome some of the hurdles to deploying BareMetal Cloud vs. traditional Cloud VM’s. These strategies will absolutely help reduce costly deployment mistakes, prior to purchasing.

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The Best Public Cloud Providers for Business in 2016

  So your company’s cloud vm service provider isn’t quite cutting it… and you’re wondering what all of the other IT departments are using. This blog is for you. You will learn who the highest rated business cloud providers are,

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7 Questions: To Help Find a Better Public Cloud Solution [SlideShare]

If you are in IT, you know about cloud virtual servers. And you know there are plenty of “Cloud VM” (a.k.a. “Public Cloud”), service providers to choose from. From the big boys like AWS and Azure, to the hundreds of smaller companies…

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Cloud Therapy: EP 005 – Improving your Cloud Server Implementation with Raj Palat

In this episode, Evolve IP‘s Manager of Sales Engineering, Raj Palat, outlines his insightful “Data Center Diamond” approach to cloud implementation. It’s a holistic approach to evaluating your cloud decision from every angle, which is exactly what your boss will

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Cloud Therapy: Ep 004 – Questions for Public Cloud Providers

  In Ep 004, your host, Mike Smith, lists the top questions you should ask yourself before you start shopping service providers for Cloud VMs (aka Public Cloud). This list is the result of hours of research he did, calling

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CLOUD DR [INFOGRAPHIC]

What is Cloud Disaster Recovery (DR)? Take a look at this cool infographic and find out.   Which 3 DR solutions are the best fit for your company? MY TOP 3

DRaaS for Physical Servers

Are you kicking the tires on Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) but your server environment includes more than just Virtual Machines (VM’s)? Do physical servers need to be included in your DRaaS solution? In November, I spent a lot

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Cloud VM [INFOGRAPHIC]

Check out this great infographic explaining Cloud VM’s for business, and their benefit.   Your company should be quoting 3 hand-picked cloud VM providers. MY TOP 3