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Cloud Therapy: Episode 001 – What is SD-WAN? [Podcast]
What is SD-WAN and what are the benefits? How does it compare to MPLS and other business WAN services? We bring an extremely experienced, long-time provider engineer, David Kline from TPx (formerly TelePacific) Communications, to answer all of these questions for…
About Cloud Therapy: A New Podcast
Introducing Cloud Therapy… A NEW podcast for all IT professionals seeking to catapult their careers to the next level. Listen to a quick overview of who your host, Mike Smith is and how this podcast will act as a guide…
MPLS vs. SD-WAN
So you are contemplating replacing your MPLS network with an SD-WAN network. But you’re wondering, “What’s the difference?” Well, as I explained in a previous blog, SD-WAN can bring a ton of benefits, like increased network speed, more link uptime,…
Six Benefits of SD-WAN
You’re an IT manager for a company with multiple locations. Your MPLS WAN contract is coming up and you’re thinking… “Do we still need MPLS? Should we just go big bandwidth at all sites and run an IP-Sec VPN? Should…
Top 5 Reasons IT Digs 0365 [Infographic]
Millions of IT Professionals have dumped their in-house Exchange servers and gone with Office 365. This infographic explains the top 5 reasons why. Have an AeroCom expert help you shop all available O365 solutions. Click below. MY TOP 3
SIP Service for Dialers
For those companies with call centers (or should I say “contact centers”), you know that some telecom service providers are not fond of dialers. Not to worry, I found some SIP providers that are happy to take your business. During…
The Best Business SIP Voice Providers
“SIP is SIP, right? If we are quoting SIP for our company’s voice, what feature differences can there be between providers?” During the month of December, (in between my Amazon shopping sessions), I set out to answer this question for…
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…
Non-VMware DRaaS Providers
So you are looking into Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) but one or more of your virtual machines are running something other than VMware (i.e. Hyper-V, AWS, etc.). In November, I spent hours calling almost all of the DRaaS…
My Take on DRaaS Service Providers
So, while you were all dreaming of turkey plumbs, as you slaved away in your server room in November, I decided to put myself to work for you. If you are in the market for DRaaS (Cloud Disaster Recovery), you’ll…