Articles by Frank Ohlhorst

The Death of Load Balancing?

Data Center | Blog Post | Frank Ohlhorst
Friday, March 12, 2010

Many technology analysts and IT pundits have predicted that load balancing technology is becoming something of a commodity, largely because the latest OSes and edge devices do everything that is needed to balance the loads across servers effectively. Continue Reading »

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Overcoming Escalating Disaster Recovery Costs

Data Center | Blog Post | Frank Ohlhorst
Tuesday, March 2, 2010

The high cost of disaster recovery solutions is often justified by the cost of “not doing business.” Simply put, the cost of downtime is usually high enough to justify the expense of a disaster recovery solution. Continue Reading »

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How to Stay in Compliance

Security | Blog Post | Frank Ohlhorst
Monday, February 22, 2010

Compliance has become one of those pain points that many of today’s CTOs must think about, and it is only going to get worse as 2010 progresses. Continue Reading »

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Encryption Goes Mobile

Security | Blog Post | Frank Ohlhorst
Friday, February 12, 2010

The use of mobile solutions is on the rise in the enterprise and that is becoming a major concern for CTOs and their subordinates. Continue Reading »

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Welcome to IT Recon

IT Management | Blog Post | Frank Ohlhorst
Wednesday, February 10, 2010

As someone who has been responsible for large IT operations, multi-site networks and enterprise IT deployments, I can say to chief technologists, "I feel your pain!" Throughout the years, I have ha Continue Reading »

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The Long and Short of Assessing Cloud Computing Providers

IT Management | Feature | Frank Ohlhorst
Wednesday, October 21, 2009

The biggest challenge facing IT organizations once they decide to make the move to cloud computing is how to go about evaluating a provider. Continue Reading »

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Why Windows 7 Matters

Enterprise Applications | Feature | Frank Ohlhorst
Monday, October 19, 2009

Microsoft seems to have learned from the failures of Vista and created a new operating system that looks to change people’s perceptions about Windows security, reliability and usabilty. Continue Reading »

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Enterprise Backup: What You Need to Know

Data Center | How-To | Frank Ohlhorst
Thursday, October 8, 2009

How do you select backup technology to meet your company's unique needs? First define how you need for the system to work, then consider whether you need these available features.

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