4 Tips to Maximize Savings on Your Next IT Renewal
Do you have a catalog of licenses that have been purchased over a period of years? The systems they support have been growing and changing and it is no longer...
Projected Rise in IT Spending Increases the Need for Managed Services
Businesses are focusing on multi-year projects in 2022, as companies move away from 2020’s turnkey technology projects and 2021 efforts to fix and pad the technology stack. For the first...
Negotiating SaaS Contracts With Confidence
Most businesses extensively use SaaS products to automate their day-to-day operations. However, not everyone is aware of SaaS contract negotiation tactics. Outside of the obvious regarding pricing, software negotiation tactics...
How to choose a cloud data warehouse
Modern data warehouses can query structured data and semi-structured data simultaneously, and even combine historical data and streaming live data for analysis. Enterprise data warehouses, or EDWs, are unified databases...
Microsoft to try to push business customers to longer-term subscriptions via price increases
Microsoft is gearing up to make billing changes around subscriptions for a number of its business software services that could have negative effects on partners and customers. Earlier this year,...
Windows 11 adoption nears 9%, but businesses are waiting
Data on the adoption of Microsoft’s newest OS shows uptake ranging from 1% to 9%. But most enterprises will likely wait until at least 2023 before broadly rolling out Windows...
How to buy hyperconverged infrastructure: What to ask before investing in HCI
HCI purchases start with deciding software vs. appliance and considering scalability, orchestration capabilities, and cloud compatibility to narrow the options. The traditional data center is built on a three-tier infrastructure with discreet blocks of compute, storage and network resources allocated to support...
7 compliance mistakes to avoid
Regulations related to IT systems and data are on the rise. IT leaders must do their part in avoiding common missteps that can lead to hefty fines for non-compliance. Compliance...
Microsoft 365 vs Google Workspace: Which productivity suite is best for your business?
Microsoft and Google are engaged in a pitched battle to win over your business with suites of cloud-based productivity software and services. Here’s a look at the many different editions...
The SaaS-ification movement explained
Many traditional enterprises see monetary opportunities to incorporate their market knowledge into new or specialized SaaS applications and data sets. Let’s say you’re the owner of a tire manufacturing company...