Small businesses often outsource IT services as they cannot afford the cost of hiring IT professionals for their small to medium scaled IT needs. However, IT remains a vital factor for running and developing a business. Choosing the right IT support provider does not prerequisites advanced technical knowledge. This graphic lists 20 questions to help business owners screen the most competent IT support company.

A strictly IT oriented report that though it can’t typically be considered as infographic, it’s very informative of the planning and testing works that are necessary for successful implementation and smooth transition to Virtual Desktop Infrastructure for business purposes.

As even more enterprises are moving to the cloud and realizing the opportunities and benefits involved, recruitment of skilled people is becoming major concern for CIOs. See the projections for the growth of cloud technology as part of the shift happening in enterprise IT strategy.

CERN hosts 4 of the biggest, most complex and momentous experiments in the world history. LHC (Large Hadron Collider) is one of the 4 and outputs a whopping total of 1 petabyte/sec data. Without the proficiency of united IT geniuses around the world this data would never enter the pipeline. Watch an impressive animation that represents how CERN’s big data are collected, processed, recorded and distributed.

IDC Whitepaper cites that primary data deduplication have the most dramatic impact on data footprint reduction. See why deduplication is becoming a vital practice in the present IT infrastracture and how it can improve server efficiency while cutting down cost.

The inspiration behind this exercise was the growing adoption of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) in enterprise business environments. Virtual server environments tend to have a very high level of redundancy, so deduplication can lead to large reductions in the amount of storage capacity required.

Power outages, weather inclemancy, hardware failure, fraud, theft or even terrorism are some of the threats lurking out there with the potential to weigh down a business. InTechnology plc made this 4 step introductory guide on how business owners can build a plan to protect their property and have the cogs keep moving with the least possible loss.

It’s not about the loudmouth guy living next to you but rather for his digital equivalent hosted on data centers, “who” causes performance instability to other “tenants”. See why QoS (Quality of Service) is critical for an enterprise before choosing a cloud service provider.

In IT industry system administrators are pivotal team players for data recovery and business continuity when disaster strikes. System administrator are the IT professionals who get your systems running and keep them healthy and secure.

Green IT is an important consideration in business. Supply, demand and political turmoil are volatile for increasing fuel cost, but it can be controlled by controlling the fuel consumption. To lower the data center cost, efficient power and cooling technologies should be implemented effectively.