Today's storage administrators are surrounded by new and conflicting challenges on all sides. The exponential growth of business data has created new levels of analytics opportunities, but admins who continue to rely on the same old storage technology to manage this new data are just as likely to be overwhelmed by it as they are to draw value from it.
Everything your business does creates data, and the development of new technologies such as hybrid cloud and the Internet of Things will only increase the amount of data you create. The real question is, what is your company doing with all that data? Unfortunately, for many organizations today, the answer is that the data created by everyday business operations is simply dumped onto a server, and then left to rot.
On June 6, CRN® announced that it has named Cima Solutions Group to its 2016 Solution Provider 500 list. The SP500 list is CRN’s annual ranking of the largest technology integrators, solution providers and IT consultants in North America by revenue.
Here at Cima Solutions Group, we spend a lot of time thinking about how technology can make the world a better place to live in. Sometimes that means big things, like saving lives through better medical practices or improving lives through innovative educational concepts.
In the last post in our series on security intelligence, we provided a brief introduction to the IBM QRadar SIEM platform, and how it can be influential in solving the security issues that so many different companies are facing in today's high-risk IT environment.
Today's IT leaders face a wide variety of challenges every day. Whether it's making the most of limited resources, ensuring that line of business employees are empowered to do their jobs well, or keeping vital company data stored safely, these administrators have a lot of priorities competing for their time.
The world of IT is changing around us as we speak. The advent of revolutionary new technologies like cloud and big data and analytics has created a variety of new opportunities for IT teams to perform better, a fact that has been widely recognized by industry observers.
In the last post in our series about the hyper-converged infrastructure, we covered the basics, including what it is and what the benefits are. Now that you've learned a bit about what's true when it comes to hyper-converged infrastructures, it's a great time for you to start thinking about what isn't true.
Here at Cima Solutions Group, we're excited to announce a new tradition we're starting this spring: the Tech Untapped event series. The first event, coming up on Wednesday, April 13 at 4:30 p.m., will be held at the Grapevine Craft Taproom in downtown Grapevine.
These days, it seems like hybrid cloud is on the lips and minds of IT leaders everywhere. However, in an industry like IT, which is often driven by hype surrounding the next big thing, regardless of what that might be, it's worth taking some time to stop and think about what hybrid cloud really is, and what the interest surrounding it represents.