IT Strategy
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How often should you update Cisco IOS? How important is it?
For the 15-ish years I’ve been in the TPM (third party maintenance) space. One of the primary objections I’ve heard from potential new…
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5 ways to deal with the network equipment shortage
Are you having trouble finding essential network equipment? You’re not alone. The factors contributing to longer lead times are multi-faceted, and so are…
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We need microchips. Are You Prepared for a One-year Pause?
It may sound like an exaggeration, but Cisco 9200Ls were quoted to a client at 434 days lead time this week. That’s Easter…
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PANIC! At the Cisco
Unfortunately, high hopes won’t get you very far if you’re trying to purchase and install new Cisco Switches before year end. Lead times…
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Is Buying The Latest Technology worth it?
The newest technology I’ll admit, I like the idea of having the latest and greatest technology. It’s kind of fun to have the…
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How To Optimize Your Data Center Hardware With Pre-Owned Equipment?
Defining Data Center To put it simply, a data center is a physical facility where organizations house their critical data. It is designed…
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Fighting Consumerism in the Network
From straws and water bottles to plastic bags and roughly one of third of the food produced ends up in landfills, the ocean…
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Pre-Owned Equipment – How Can Network Managers Benefit
People in general, and engineers specifically, are drawn to new toys. I always have been, which is how I ended up in technology.…
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What’s Driving Your Network Equipment Purchases?
Graphically, this is known as the Rogers innovation adoption curve, named for Everett Rogers, a communications and sociology professor who first proposed the…
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Tariff Update on China’s Imports
Costs to end-users on products manufactured in and imported from China are sure to increase. OEMs have not yet committed to a specific…
