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When Onsite IT Services are Better than Remote Services

At SIS, we give you the choice.  Some of our clients prefer us to work onsite while others prefer us to work remotely.  Depending on your business needs and personal preference, we’re happy to do either.  However, there are some instances where onsite services are more appropriate than remote ones.  Here are some examples … [...]

Performance & Efficiency: Leadership with Power over x86? (Part 2)

What I consider to be the real benefit of Power is not just its performance as indicated in my first post, but also the ability to efficiently use 100% of each compute resource (so long as it has sufficient memory and I/O).  This feature is not available with x86 even though they say it is [...]

Are product upgrades just fluff?

Honestly, that’s a loaded question.  Sometimes product upgrades are nothing more than a few minor tweaks with some flashy packaging, hollow statistics, and bold promises. Then again, there are other times when upgrades bring real value, and VMware’s vSphere 5.1 is one such upgrade. Here is a list of the vSphere 5.1 upgrades I think [...]

Infographic: The Benefits of Staff Augmentation

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Performance & Efficiency: Leadership with Power over x86?

If you listen to the x86 vendors from Cisco, Dell, HP and Oracle they continually claim their chipsets are enterprise ready in performance, scalability, virtualization support, security and reliability. This is the first installment in a blog series that will focus on both the performance and scalability aspects of the x86 chipsets as compared to [...]