One of our clients faced a severe problem with speed after purchasing Microsoft Dynamics through a third party! Digital Edge steps in to find a solution.

An update on how we solved the problem our team ran into when virtualizing a hospital.

Our team ran into some rare issues when virtualizing a hospital.

Another great feature BlackBerry users benefit from.

What really makes a datacenter effective? More factors to consider when selecting your datacenter.

What really makes a datacenter effective? - Hurricane Sandy highlights the importance of having a purpose-built datacenter over inefficient replacements.

VM Reboot Detection- How out-of-box solutions do not always work and constant modification is needed as environments enhance.

Blackberry is DEAD? Over the last year or so, I have noticed that everywhere I go, all I seem to hear is how Blackbery is dead- Why not use an Android or iPhone?

A CIO/CTO should not be complacent listening to marketing/sales pitch about the “cloud” availability, global clusters etc...

I don’t know why people are parsing Splunk. I would never think that such a trivial IT task as log scanning would be turned into a business.

This is a statement against the official blog released by TechTarget Titled: Monitoring Sucks". It expresses all the issues with monitoring software today and what is necessary for businesses. Original Link attached within body.

The author says that there is a difference between EMC approach and NetApp approach. While EMC is using Auto Tearing software logic - NetApp’s strategy is to use Flash Cache: NetApp has a Flash Cache PCIe-based solid-state storage device that speeds performance on specific applications, such as data warehousing. It also supports SSDs in the array as other storage vendors do.

Digital Edge does not focus in this area of it; however when people ask what is the difference between regular IT companies, and Digital Edge, I find myself describing it best with this analogy, normal companies support, maintain, and fix regular cars. Digital Edge supports, maintains, fix Ferraris and Lamborghinis of the IT world. In reality Digital Edge deals with the most highly complex issues of the IT world, for example, huge high capacity and performance servers and storage, enterprise class networks with high degree of failure resistance and security.

Background: Imagine a client with a need for shared NAS storage, specifically speaking CIFS share – with a total need of 4T.

It may sound that I am against enterprise storage, but everything should have its limits and safeguards. It is petty that because of cases like the one I will reveal below, with such nice architectural design and engineering comes such a devastating blow, throwing technology evolution under the bus. It hurts a lot, when for the last 5 years a 100% uptime statistic holds true, only to be knocked down to 99.9% following one major event. Here is the time line of events today:

Real enterprise class business requirements in a lot of cases are much more complex than a simple IT solution that you can purchase from a single vendor. Sometimes a simple business case would require a non-trivial IT solution approach; but something that may look simple will require considering lots of simple details, and have small impediments that are hard to overcome. Solving such cases require either deep knowledge of technology or extra money to cover for the lack of knowledge.

Digital Edge is ready to launch its third generation ticketing system. Since its original version, we have always been committed to the development of our internal ticketing system. My vision was that this type of internal design would pay-off in the future, and I found myself to be correct. The development of a ticketing system, the flexibility of design and the necessary add-on features that can be intergrated as you see the need, really make Digital Edge stand out to its clients.

We know sometimes servers misbehave, and hardware manufacturers issue patches to their BIOS or firmware. Most of those patches are packaged to be installed through MS Windows or Linux. Dell does not package patches to be installed through VMWare ESXi.

3 BIG problems with cloud-based processing.

Do we realize how dangerous building cross connects could be?

I am constantly advising our clients and other IT organizations to consult with us before making any decisions. Questions do not cost anything, however questions are the significance to cost saving. Unfortunately in a lot of cases TCO for IT departments has a cost of stupidity component.

EMC had an SPB controller CPU failure, half of its internal architecture. It is as if a human would have had a stroke damaging the brain’s left hemisphere, leaving the person unable to move at all. However not in our case we were up and running, here is why…

No matter how you plan or how well you’re prepared, upgrading core production components tends to be a difficult task. This is exactly the reason why people are running on older software/hardware for years trying to avoid the upgrades, even though Hardware and Software vendors are pushing hard for upgrades threatening clients that they are not going to be supporting their products any longer.

Enterprise Technology; a complex schema that even IT Managers struggle to harness while every decision has the potential to impact cost, profitability, and delivery deadlines that could become detrimental to a business. By nature, Digital Edge’s CORE Business sanctions the ample knowledge, experience, and skill-sets that supply our customers with the necessary foundation, from which most engineers are not accustomed.

The biggest goal of IT groups is to figure out how to compare offerings on a flat place, how to make them equal – make them all apples or oranges. This is how we did it selecting a SAN solution for an entry-level enterprise implementation.

Sometimes clients do get viruses. There are cases when regardless of all security and antivirus measures computers still get infected.

A company is interviewing datacenters partner for co-location and full management services of their network infrastructure and servers. The infrastructure consists of about 100 servers and 40 network devices and appliances. After providing them with our proposal we found out that we are the most expensive provider.

Enterprise storage is a solid technological solution, however if look closely at the architecture of some of the most successful infrastructures you will find a lot of smart techniques and ideas rather than big hardware names.