Most companies rely on the expertise of multiple providers who support their businesses in areas such as applications development and maintenance, IT infrastructure, ISPs or MSPs, Cloud Hosting, etc. However, having one expert advisor to guide you towards the best solution to fit your needs that is not influenced by what they can sell you may be more difficult to find.

Discover Sentia’s Managed Services Resource Center with assets that will provide valuable insight into how to solve your IT challenges. We can help reduce downtime, improve IT system performance, and deliver measurable results for your company. 

For a third consecutive year, ITWC (formerly known as IT World Canada), in conjunction with Rogers Communications, surveyed 147 Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and their equivalents to find out more about their day-to-day challenges and published the 2015 CIO Census Report Canadian CIO. This showcases how CIOs execute their mandate within their organizations and offers insights into what matters most to our Canadian IT leaders that you could leverage.

Data loss and natural disasters have increased the importance of having a well planned and effective IT disaster strategy for your business. New capabilities provide companies of all sizes the potential for a less costly, faster and more flexible recovery solution for backing up data.

As the new year approaches, I wondered where CIOs would focus their IT resources in 2015 to make a positive impact on their business. I came across this article by Janco Associates where six out of the ten top CIO issues have a direct impact on IT infrastructure provisioning which is at the heart of today’s blog.

Everybody is talking about software defined storage (SDS)...so what’s all the noise about? I found a couple of articles to be quite helpful to help you understand this solution but also new products that provide this solution to midsize businesses.

We hear and read a lot about lowering costs, IT budget management, but also operational growth and efficiency. So how do organizations plan and prepare their businesses to be competitive for the future in the face of such challenges?

Are you feeling the pain these days? What can you do to start planning the transformation of your network?

 I really identified with this issue like many of our clients in the SMB space. How can SMBs bridge the gap between Enterprise-class requirements and SMB budget constraints?

IT professionals who work at organizations with fewer than 1,000 employees face a unique storage challenge. Their environment has grown to a size that requires the features and performance of enterprise-class systems, but they have a budget that is barely above the cost of starter SANs that are designed for much smaller businesses. 

I was searching for white papers around next-generation virtualization and came across this one by IDC that walks you through to Virtualization 3.0. Today, success demands agility. Therefore, understanding how virtualization and Cloud solutions can support ongoing cost savings, improve service delivery and Increase business agility are top of mind for me.