Herman Mehling

Cotton companies knows all about disaster recovery. The company, which specializes in the restoration of fire- and water-damaged properties, also realizes that practicing what it preaches goes a long way to preserving credibility. Thats why Cotton, of Houston, hired solution provider Terian Solutions, also in Houston, to prepare the company for worst-case scenarios involving the […]

Simplify and virtualize was the law firm of Eskanos & Adlers credo when replacing an overly complex network its IT staff couldnt manage. For help, the firm called on AccessFlow, a Sacramento, Calif., solution provider. AccessFlow recommended a virtual network built around VMware ESX servers and Cisco Systems switches. The network saved money and provided […]

Using tape backup and recovery had proved unreliable for years at Danlee Medical Products. The last straw came in 2005 when the company realized its tape backup system hadnt worked for a month straight. So Danlee turned to Computer Related Technologies, a solution provider in Liverpool, N.Y., for help. CRT knew exactly what Danlee needed […]

A natural or man-made disaster can strike anywhere, anytime, with ruthless and devastating results—thats the awful essence of a disaster. Hurricane Katrina and the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks loom large in the collective memory for the magnitude of their destruction, but smaller-scale, localized disasters happen all the time: a fire in a building, human error […]

The marketing buzz around managed services is pretty seductive for the thousands of VARs burned out on low-margin, product-centric selling, unpredictable project-based revenue and break-fix maintenance gigs that can turn into nightmares with the flip of a switch. Managed services is one of the fastest-growing segments of the IT and networking markets, said Jeff Kaplan, […]