Robert David Steele: The Open Source Everything Manifesto
A few months ago we were approached by Robert David Steele, pitching his book “The Open Source Everything Manifesto”. He came to us because our name, Open Spectrum. Apparently it resonated with the message he has spent the last decade putting forward. At first,...
Cost Savings Drive Datacenter Efficiency
There has been far too much talk about a recent NY Times article that came out earlier in the week painting datacenters as massive consumers and wasters of electricity and resources. Somehow I feel like the article misses the point. I do not wish to refute the fact...
Case Studies: Datacenter and Network Migration – Cut Clients Cost Nearly in Half
INDUSTRY/VERTICAL An established and growing video on-demand advertising solution HQ'd in Silicon Valley and backed by established VC firms. Client was looking to reduce their overall IT infrastructure spend on datacenter and wanted to add a layer of protection...
Common Mistakes in MDM and BYOD
Submitted and written by Ayman Elsawah, Sr. Information Security Specialist of 3Hemispheres.com Seems like everyone right now is scrambling to MDM (Mobile Device Management) to get a handle of their BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) situation. CIO’s across the board...
We Are Hiring! – Network Overlay & New Business Catalyst
We are pro-actively seeking an additional full time partner/producer/manager for the business who can run point on any/all network related solutions we are called to architect and deliver. Nutshell, our ideal candidate has: *Minimum 3-5 years experience in a Sales or...
OSI’s 1 Year Anniversary: Onward and Upward!
With the blessing of my patient, loving and supportive wife, 12 months ago I left the safety of a full time lucrative career as a consistent top performing sales executive for the largest private IT Infrastructure provider in the USA and took a chance focusing 100% of...
The Crumbling Myth of Amazon Reliability
Reliability and uptime are major driving factors for every customer looking for a data center or to host "in the cloud." So, why is it that Amazon seems to get away with so much down-time? The short answer is they don't... or at least, we feel can't for long. Clearly...
Rules of the game: Distributed System Design
Since we're all about solutions here at OSI, we figured it wouldn't be right to simply throw AWS 'under the bus' without providing some thoughts and ideas on how to most effectively prepare yourself from having a total system failure from the inevitable localized...
TENACITY: DO or DO NOT…
We read this recently and wanted to share as we feel this is not just inspirational but a great reminder of what separates those who DO from those who TRY... Submitted by Steve Blank, a brilliant entrepreneur, Harvard & Stanford Professor, and overall excellent...
Case Studies: XConnect Pricing in Meet-Me-Rooms
Through a referral from one of our partners, we recently had the privilege to work on a project for a large global commercial real estate brokerage firm looking to perform an in depth study on Meet-Me-Room (MMR) pricing and best practices within multi-tenant...