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The Case for Disaster Recovery Validation

Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) has gotten much attention in the wake of natural and man-made disasters in the recent years. But Executives continue to doubt the ability of IT to restore business IT...

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Announcing the New IDS Look

We are excited to officially introduce you to our refreshed brand, new website and IDS Cloud services branding! IDS has grown exponentially over the past few years. As we took a step back and evaluated...

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Performance Tuning Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.6 Part I: Citrix CloudBridge

As many companies are making the investment in Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop they want a fast, reliable and secure solution. In this article, we will focus on WAN optimization and performance using the...

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Unstructured Data, the Silent Killer of Your IT Budget: How are you stopping...

Like most organizations, you probably are hosting your unstructured data on traditional NAS platforms. The days of storing this data on these legacy systems are coming to an end. Let’s look at some of...

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Evaluating All-Flash Storage Part 1: Mapping out the process

Many storage architects start off their workday sipping coffee, reading emails, checking on the status of various things in the environment. Mostly just killing time on the often repetitive and boring...

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Cloud Trends Update: Top Five Cloud Contract Considerations

Last week, IDS hosted a dinner featuring a presentation about current cloud trends and how IDS is helping our customers create their cloud strategy. The topic generated a lot of very interesting...

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Performance Tuning Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.6 Part 2: HDX Insight...

For more information on this topic, please see part one of this series, “Performance Tuning Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.6 Part 1: Citrix CloudBridge.” We will be doing a follow-up series for VMware...

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New IDS Hires Announcement: Welcome to the team!

We’re incredibly excited to announce the addition of three new hires at IDS who will be instrumental in growing our business around transformational technologies. The strategic expansion will further...

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Data Retention: In IT We Trust

While discussing backups and recovery validation in my first blog of this series, “The Case for Disaster Recovery Validation“, I cited “…The secondary purpose of backups is to recover data from an...

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Evaluating All-Flash Storage Part 2: Taking a closer look

A few weeks ago I wrote “Evaluating All-Flash Storage Part 1: Mapping out the process,” discussing the excitement around getting to test a new product, specifically an All-Flash Array. Getting to open...

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Data Classification: Creating Business Value

As we discussed in my previous article, “Data Retention: In IT We Trust,” data retention is a necessary component of a comprehensive information lifecycle management (ILM) strategy. In this article we...

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IT Consultants: Navigating a Changing Technology Landscape

The role of the consultant in the data center infrastructure space is seeing some considerable shifts lately. Five years ago, consultants were still fairly specialized in certain disciplines like...

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Converged Infrastructure & Why or Why Not VCE?

Searching for the term converged infrastructure online yields thousands of results. Thousands of different opinions and approaches, with each vendor telling you why their solution is superior. As a...

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IDS Celebrates Fifth Year on Inc. 5000 List

We are excited to announce our inclusion in the 34th annual Inc. 5000 list, honoring the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. This year IDS ranked No. 167 in the Chicago market and No. 3912...

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Nutanix and Citrix Partner to Lower Costs for Virtualization

Nutanix recently announced a partnership with Citrix to work on driving down the costs and complexities of deploying new applications and desktop virtualization environments. Nutanix has also announced...

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A Force Re-Awakens at Dell in Converged Infrastructure

What’s Ahead for VCE and Your Data Center As my recent blog post explained, one of the largest growth areas for data centers in 2015 was Converged Infrastructure (CI). All the major players have pushed...

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The Best Next Thing in BYOD: VMI

BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is a buzzword we have heard in IT and security circles for years. It speaks to questions that every business leader and IT executive must ask and answer: how do we secure...

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Dude, Where’s My Server!?!

Hello Cloud, Goodbye Constant Configuration I have to admit that when I log into a Linux box and realize that I have some technical chops left, I get a deep feeling of satisfaction. I am also in the...

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From Smart Monitoring to Happy End-users

Desktop Virtualization Visibility & Peace of Mind To monitor or not to monitor? That has become the question for many businesses today as they design their virtual desktop environments. How are...

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Don’t Skip the Hyperscale Party

1 Path & 7 Benefits to Getting Hyper Cloud Connected Ever feel like today’s migration to cloud services is an exclusive party? Does it seem as though big enterprises and global powerhouses with...

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