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Ransomware Attacks: Protecting Your Business from Becoming a Statistic
On Friday, thousands of machines across the world were hit with a new strain of ransomware named “WannaCry”. This particular strain is a result of the NSA exploits going public as part of what was called “Vault 7” on WikiLeaks. Some of the information demonstrated...
3 Essential Steps for Disaster Recovery Testing
A Disaster Recovery (DR) program can’t just look good on paper. It has to get the job done when a natural disaster or cyberattack takes down your data center. But because the odds of a disaster striking your data center are minimal, once a DR program is in place, it's...
4 Questions to Ask Before Hiring a DRaaS Provider
Nobody wants to experience downtime due to a natural disaster, cyberattack, or some other unforeseen failure. Today's economy has become so dependent on data that losing crucial IT resources for hours can damage a company's reputation and bottom line. That’s why...
3 Common Mistakes of OpenStack Beginners
In the past five years, hundreds of enterprises have successfully implemented Infrastructure as-a-Service (IaaS) platforms based on OpenStack. IBM, HP, RedHat, and many other industry giants have invested so much time and money into this space that some analysts have...
Is a Zero Data Footprint the Answer to Your Cybersecurity and Compliance Concerns?
Cloud computing gives organizations the opportunity to get out of the data center business. Why not let somebody else manage our servers, switches, and software, the reasoning goes, and free up our IT team to spend their time making our company more efficient and our...
The Next Great Translation: Hyperscale Cloud
At OnX, we’ve been offering cloud and managed services for over a decade. In the last five years, more and more of our customers have introduced public cloud options to their IT or business strategies. When I think about today’s hyperscale clouds, I can’t help but...
Does Your Cloud Environment Have Enough Protection?
This is the third installment in a three-part security series by OnX Director of Product Management, Chris Munoz. You move data to the cloud for convenience and cost savings. Everything’s fine till a data breach nullifies the reasons why you embraced the cloud in the...
Why Intrusion Detection Does Not Go Far Enough
This is the second installment in a three-part security series by OnX Director of Product Management, Chris Munoz. Intrusion detection technology can give you a good idea of what’s happening on your network. You can configure it to send out alerts if certain unusual...
Keeping Intruders Out of Your Web Apps
This is the first installment in a three-part security series by OnX Director of Product Management, Chris Munoz. Intruders love to attack web applications. Why? Because lots of web apps are designed to do a specific job quickly and efficiently — and start paying off...
Setting your 2017 IT strategy…in dual speed
Less fragile, more agile. That's the name of the game for IT organizations in 2017. But expectations for IT go well beyond becoming more agile and adaptable. IT is expected to be an active contributor to the business, the enablers who are always driving toward...
5 Top IT Manager Concerns Addressed by a Security Intelligence Appliance
If you’re an IT security manager responsible for keeping your company’s data safe, then you understand the challenges of addressing the ever-increasing threats that put your company at risk. Maybe you have already implemented a security plan, or perhaps you’re...
Back Back Backup, Encrypt Encrypt! Data Protection Services Leveraging the Public Cloud
Every business needs a data backup plan and today we are seeing exponential growth in both the volume and overall cost in a typical mid-large enterprise that is frequently grappling with outdated technology, putting the organization at risk. Enter OnX Managed Services...
IT Security Patching and Vulnerability Management
Basic vulnerability management tasks like infrastructure and security patching can easily be overlooked in mid- and large-sized organizations where IT teams are stretched thin and left to prioritize projects, strategy, and application-oriented tasks that have the...
Traditional Backups are not for IT Disaster Recovery
In today’s world of exploding data, traditional backup using tape or even disk-to-disk devices are not useful in an IT disaster recovery event. The restore time could be days to weeks depending on the amount of data for the environment. Also backup jobs in general...
Succeed with Every IT Disaster Recovery and Business Recovery Test / Exercise
If you’ve been “lucky” enough at one time or another to take part in your organization’s IT Disaster Recovery or Business Continuity program (DR/BC), then you are probably all too self-aware as to the true preparedness of your organization. Most company’s IT disaster...
Closing the gap between open-source technologies and enterprise-level IT
At OnX, we really enjoy helping our clients figure out how to develop and manage private cloud environments with cloud-native applications. That’s what inspired us to open our new HPE Helion Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE) at the OnX NYC Demo Center. The new CCOE...
Simple Steps to Secure Applications in the Cloud
The best value of deploying applications in a multi-tenant or public cloud is speed and simplicity. Your cloud provider can have your applications deployed and running within hours if not minutes once automated. However, with simplicity comes the risk of exploitation....
Refresh Your Oracle Skills with OnX
OnX Enterprise Solutions is sponsoring an upcoming meeting of the Chicago Oracle Users Group on Thursday, February 18th from 6pm - 9pm. The meeting will be held at the Chicago Marriott in Naperville, and will feature Oracle Ace Director Jim Czuprynski. A 35-year...
Thoughts of Peace (& Successful Oracle 12c Migrations) in 2016
As a member of the OnX Strategic Solutions Architect team, and resident Oracle ACE Director, I am thrilled to be in a role where I’m constantly learning, and exchanging ideas and insights with our clients about Oracle Database. In fact, I’ve been on the road since...
Encouraging CFOs to think differently about cloud computing
Jim CzuprynskiStrategic Solutions Architect, Oracle ACE DirectorOnX Enterprise Solutions As an Oracle ACE director who is constantly promoting adoption of new Oracle technology solutions, I often concentrate on talking to the key IT decision-makers — CIOs, CISOs,...
Safely Transitioning Users to the Digital Age
As Paul O'Doherty, Director Cloud and End User Services at OnX, points out in this blog post, the drive towards mobile and increased digitization is creating both friction and pressure for our traditional IT organizations as they struggle to manage risk and compliance...
Serving the Connecting Customer Will Require Big Data Solutions
2014 is a year where we saw an organizational shift—where companies moved towards being ‘always on’ to serve the connected customer. With the proliferation of mobile devices and content delivery portals, it should not be surprising the year also saw escalated...
EMC Isilon scale-out has massive key advantages.
EMC Isilon scale-out Data Lake further extends its leadership as an ideal platform to store, manage and protect unstructured data efficiently while supporting a wide range of applications and workloads. Key advantages of EMC Isilon include: Simplified management:...
OpenStack is NOT an Enterprise Cloud Platform
Thomas Wreh, Sr. Solutions Architect, OnX Enterprise Solutions “What?” you ask. “OpenStack is NOT an Enterprise Cloud Platform? That flies right in the face of what you’ve been telling us for years!” So, before you think I’m losing my mind, let me clarify....
Why data is the backbone of population health management
Mike McQuaid, Sr. US Healthcare Strategist, OnX Enterprise Solutions The population health management journey inevitably leads to a discussion of data. How do you identify crucial data, gather it efficiently and deliver it to clinicians in real time to enable better...
Monitoring and Management of Our Architectures and the Brass Ring
Matthew Leib, Strategic Solutions Architect, OnX Enterprise Solutions Every day we get a little bit closer to what I like to call the brass ring of managing environments in the cloud — being able to seamlessly move all of our workloads live from wherever...
You can’t take IT with you when you go. Or can you?
Ron Nemecek is a Technical Sales Specialist at OnX Enterprise Solutions. There once was a time, believe it or not, when technology was exclusive to your healthcare organization’s IT department. It was the realm of IT geeks locked up in a data center day and night – a...
Why “it depends” with storage
Mike Janson is the Principal Architect of the CTO Strategy Group at OnX Enterprise Solutions. In today’s tech-savvy society, many storage start-up companies are offering new and improved methods for preserving data. Flash arrays, object-based storage, cloud...
Benefits of storage consolidation
Mike Janson is the Principal Architect of the CTO Strategy Group at OnX Enterprise Solutions. Over the past few years, the scalability and capability of storage has continued to expand. While storage technology hasn’t quite been on par with processor technology (in...
The object of storage
Mike Janson is the Principal Architect of the CTO Strategy Group at OnX Enterprise Solutions. As data creation continues to flourish, innovative storage solutions have become all the hype in the IT marketplace. Most of the buzz is around flash arrays and...
And then there was hyper-convergence
Converged infrastructure (CI) platforms such as vBlock and FlexPod have been increasingly capturing customers’ attention due to their ability to reduce time-to-market for applications, lower costs, simplify IT, and reduce overall risk. Many IT organizations have...
Overcome healthcare IT obstacles with a software-defined infrastructure
Healthcare is an industry under tremendous transformation. Whether it is a business model shift, government rules and regulations, or an avalanche of new and different data, healthcare Information Technology professionals have a lot to deal with and stay up-to-date on...
HIMSS 15 recap: Transforming the business of healthcare
Many of our discussions at HIMSS this year focused on the business of healthcare and its shift from a fee-for-service volume-based model to a fee-for-value outcomes-based model. This transition brings data management and utility to the forefront of an organization’s...
IBM honors OnX with top award
Las Vegas isn’t always associated with winning, but OnX walked away with a big prize during the IBM PartnerWorld Leadership Conference held there February 9-12. We are very excited to announce that OnX has won the 2015 IBM Top Performing Business Partner Leadership...
Address gaps in data protection before you fail
Source: EMC Pulse Product & Technology Blog, Author Chris Ratcliffe. Data Protection is one of the least glamorous yet important disciplines in the data center. In many respects it’s like being the goalkeeper in a soccer game – when you do your...
Good management goes a long way in the hybrid cloud
Source: VMware blogs, Author: Morgan OLeary. You’re a fast-growing vSphere shop with a thriving private cloud. As your company’s IT demands increase, you take the next logical step and start to deploy certain workloads off-prem in the public cloud. Everything runs...
Are data services like water or electricity?
Source: CIO.com, Author Matt Watts. I know it sounds strange to many in the IT world, but your customers are starting to think of your service as a utility. Yes, that kind of utility: gas, water, electricity. Something they turn on with the press of a button or the...
The best time to move to software-defined infrastructure is right now.
Source: HP Transforming IT Blog, Author Mohammed Safder, Worldwide Lead, HP Strategic Consulting Services Segment. Software-defined was one of the key themes at the Gartner Data Center, Infrastructure & Operations Management Conference, and it was evident that...
Cisco engineers unplugged: Why you should let your IOPS tell the truth
Source: Cisco Blog > Data Center and Cloud > Lauren Friedman. Ever wonder if your expectations for the modern Data Center match the reality? Watch Cisco's Engineers go through the math and thinking for what your storage systems can and cannot do!...
3 key trends for 2015
Source: VMware CloudOps, Author, Craig Dobson As we look forward to finding out what 2015 holds—both from a market and an industry perspective, one thing is for certain: the rapid changes we have seen in our industry will continue. In fact, the pace of change is...
A successful VMworld 2014 for OnX
It’s been a busy summer! OnX Enterprise Solutions had a great VMworld 2014 with a well-attended Customer’s Welcome Event and well-received presentation on what’s new in End User Computing. VMware made many major announcements, but the one that created the most stir...
Should I stay or should I go?
“Should I stay or should I go…" Software (SW) is the backbone of your business. It helps make you profitable and differentiates you from your competition. Yet sometimes it may be taken for granted. IT is currently faced with the prospect of branching out into the...
CRN article featuring OnX CTO on HP’s software-defined storage expansion
Below is an excerpt from the CRN article: HP Expands Virtual Storage For OpenStack, Intros Entry All-Flash 3PAR Arrays, by Joseph F. Kovar The idea of a software-defined data center is not just another marketing acronym, said Steve Lankard, CTO and vice...
Are you connected? The importance of mobile collaboration
It’s been a long time since my college days! I knew that, but it was brought home a couple of weeks ago when we did multiple college visits with my teenage daughter. Some things don’t seem to have changed too much: T-shirts, jeans and flip-flops still dominate the...
2 ways to learn what’s new in end user computing
OnX Enterprise Solutions’ Director of Cloud and End User Services Paul O’Doherty’s new book “VMware Horizon Suite: Building End User Services” is now available. You also have the opportunity to hear Paul speak at VMworld, where you can meet him at the bookstore or...
The value of expertise
Last summer my boat needed to have a portion of it’s outdrive replaced. Being a confident technical engineer-type I thought that I would save some money and make the repair myself. I removed the portion of the outdrive that needed repair and proceeded to damage it to...
Data rush: Part 1
The Explosion "It's not my fault," said the Oracle Database Administrator (DBA) as he went back to his desk. The users in the New York office were frustrated with the database performance. Scott, a seasoned Oracle DBA walked back to his desk after a heated conference...
OnX races to the IndyCar finish line
The speed and agility of OnX Enterprise Solutions has hit the track, specifically the IndyCar Series, as the Associate Sponsor and Official Information Technology Provider to Rahal Letterman Lanigan (RLL) Racing. Want to join us for the ride? Stay tuned to OnX Thinks...
OnX #5 on CDN’s Top 100 Solution Providers
OnX Enterprise Solutions has come a long way since our founding in 1983, and we're proud to say we are among the best, placing fifth in CDN's Top 100 Solution Provider of the Year awards. View this article and video, which features Marty Blake, V.P. of Business...
Versions of truth in data analytics
In my childhood, I was taught that truth triumphs. My grandfather always used to say that there is only one version of truth. Lies may be told many different ways, but there is no chance of having a second version of true fact. I believed this to be true, until I grew...
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