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...
View ArticleAnnouncing 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...
View ArticlePerformance 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...
View ArticleUnstructured 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...
View ArticleEvaluating 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...
View ArticleCloud 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...
View ArticlePerformance 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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleData 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...
View ArticleEvaluating 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...
View ArticleData 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...
View ArticleIT 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...
View ArticleConverged 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...
View ArticleIDS 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...
View ArticleNutanix 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleDude, 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...
View ArticleFrom 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...
View ArticleDon’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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