Midsizewize - The SMB/Midmarket Server & Storage Blog by Urs Renggli
Earlier this week I was attending Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) that happend to be in my hometown - Houston Texas. Microsoft announced the Release Candidate 1 of EBS - Essential Business Server that is solidly targeted at Midsize
To remain competitive in today’s marketplace, midsized businesses must quickly and efficiently adapt their IT to changing business requirements. In connection with this, virtualization and consolidation stand in the foreground. The necessity to synchronize
A key challenge midsized businesses share with enterprises is the need to reduce the cost of protecting their data. Various storage technologies have made backing up data more affordable. For example, data compression has allowed more data to be stored
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A few days ago I was interested to see a press release from our friends at SAVVIS, which includes the following statement: “SAVVIS announced the availability of a hosted infrastructure platform for the SAP Business All-in-One solution. The SAVVIS solution
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Filed under: Storage, HP, Midmarket, ERP, Business All in one, Applications, Servers, Cloud, Blades, SAAS, SAP
Continuing the discussion on virtualisation for midsize businesses, knowing how important it is to you all, today I’d like to cover an area that is often overlooked – your data storage. I consistently hear from our midsize customers that they are facing
Continuing our discussions on the theme of virtualization, this time I would like to talk about bringing it to the desktop. The personal computer is the de-facto productivity tool of white collar workers all over the world. The mainstream model today
I wanted to let you know that HP blogs will be migrating to a new platform over the next week. As of tomorrow, May 23, I won't be posting to my blog and won't be able to receive any comments submitted. Please hold your comments until June 1 when our new
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Avoiding disaster the easy way Last time I talked about virtualization and it is such a big topic I’d like to continue that conversation by looking at another aspect of it. With over 80% of business processes running on technology these days, it is not
A couple of weeks ago I spent a few days at the Midsize Enterprise Summit, an event that hosts a few hundred midsize business CIO’s and it was very obvious in my talks to many of the attendees that virtualization is absolutely top of mind in the midmarket
A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure to meet one of our customers in the Boston Area - Henry Chace, the CIO of Burns & Levinson, a 260 employee law firm, which has recently replaced its outdated IT infrastructure with state of the art HP ProLiant
Commitment is a word often used but seldom delivered on. A while back HP realised that midsize businesses have very different technology needs and priorities to small businesses or large enterprises, but that nobody seemed to be meeting those needs. We
Hello, In my last blog, I talked about virtualization and a new storage array. I just learned about an interesting test and wanted to talk more about it today. Virtualisation has been a hot topic lately fueled by the popularity of server virtualisation
Hello again, Today I’d like to talk about some things that are getting a lot of attention – blades, virtualisation and storage. These are all major investment areas for midsize businesses, so naturally all the vendors are looking at ways to attract customers
Hello again, One of the consistent things I hear from midsize business customers is that they struggle to cope with the burgeoning amount of data in their organisations. Many have direct-attached storage which makes the sharing of storage resources difficult
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I just returned from a 2 day SMB planning meeting in the bay area with colleagues from all across HP discussing how to even better serve small and midsized customers in the future. During the meeting we spent a good amount of time on a great SMB initiative
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