2019 will be an exciting year in technology. We will certainly see some solutions take steps forward and others fall well short of meeting expectations. Some industries will make innovative use of emerging technologies while others will continue to chase their tails with stalled pilot projects. Many developing technologies have finally matured, which will lead […]

It seems like mergers and acquisitions are becoming an almost daily occurrence, especially when it comes to the managed service provider business. Talk of an acquisition creates a real buzz in the marketplace. Your company’s name is in the news, people are talking, every day it seems like there’s something new. It’s also scary. If […]

2018 was full of all the popular buzzwords – artificial intelligence, machine learning (AI/ML), blockchain, Internet of Things. In 2019, we may start to see some of these make large advancements as more technology associated with Industry 4.0 begins to take off. As with emerging technologies of the past, there are those who like to […]

It has been a little over a year since IBM introduced the POWER9 scale out variant of Power and just a few months since the scale up POWER9 processors were introduced last August. Since that time, we’ve had our fair share of customers make the switch, but others still have questions. “Why should I move […]

Mergers and acquisitions seem to be in the news almost every day, especially in the managed service provider (MSP) space. It’s an exciting time for everyone involved, but headline-making changes — even positive ones — can also be unsettling. That’s especially true for smaller organizations. In becoming part of a larger company, your employees are […]

For many years, the terms artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) were quickly dismissed as just marketing hype and buzz. It seemed like every new technology had AI working for it somewhere. Some used true AI. A lot, however, were just mechanical Turks, of which the marketplace was aware. Fact is, AI and ML […]

2019 will be a bridge year. It may not produce any groundbreaking advancements in business technologies, but we will certainly see accelerated adoption of certain ones, like SD-WAN (software defined wide area network) and containers. There will also be some growth in older markets, in ways you may not expect. Here are some predictions I […]