Jun 22, 2016 | All Blogs, Cloud
Contributor: Kevin Hazard, IBM Cloud, SoftLayer People often compare SoftLayer with Amazon Web Services (AWS). It’s easy to understand why. We’ve both built scalable infrastructure platforms to provide cloud resources to the same broad range of customers—from...
Jun 21, 2016 | All Blogs, Cloud, Managed Services
“IT services, in particular Cloud services, are a challenge to evaluate and then manage. And, the problem is growing. We would welcome any help that I could feel is competent and objective in helping with sourcing and in managing our sources.” – CIO, North...
Jun 20, 2016 | All Blogs, Business Continuity, Cloud
As IT becomes ever more important and the cost of downtime increases, it is no wonder that improving resiliency has become a high priority. Organizations are willing to spend money to help make systems, data and applications virtually always available; to protect them...
Jun 16, 2016 | All Blogs, Security
Cyber-crime is becoming an increasing challenge with the frequency and sophistication of cyber-attacks growing. Even worse data breaches are often detected by outsiders, affecting customers or brand image before the organization even knows that they have been...
Jun 15, 2016 | All Blogs, Business Continuity, Managed Services
High levels of IT integration and optimization are now the backbone of business success for organizations operating in every industry. New initiatives are designed to increase alignment of IT with business strategy, drive down costs and provide new business...
Jun 14, 2016 | All Blogs, Managed Services
In a converged multivendor IT environment, what used to be challenging becomes deeply complex and a strain on internal staff. It takes significant time to respond to even basic support issues which keep users productive and meet service level and cost objectives....
