LinkedIn Essentials Tip #2 – 5 Tips to Increase Your Visibility on LinkedIn
It seems every week we are speaking with new sales reps working with different service providers or engineers looking for work outside their current employer. With them in mind, we wanted to throw on the table some more tangible advice both parties can leverage to...
Best & Worst of Cloud Contracts
If you walked into my office over the past few weeks, chances are you would find me with my legs kicked up on my desk, pen in hand and my nose buried in a hosting provider, cloud provider or datacenter provider's MSA, SLA, Addendum, Partner Agreement or some other...
The Celtic Infrastructure Tiger
I've spent the past 8 years working with dozens of entrepreneurs and service providers from Ireland that have taught me a great many things and impressed the heck out of me. Paying tribute to these most awesome Irishmen and women, and in celebration of St. Patrick's...
Architecting Scalable Applications for the Cloud
RightScale, one of the hidden high value partners that many of the clients, service providers and partners we work with leverage on a day to day basis, has put forward a brilliant treatise on how to architect scalable applications in the cloud. We have featured this...
“Rails” users can expect 10x scalability using Clustrix
Earlier this month our partners over at Bluebox announced a partnership with Clustrix to provide a MySQL Database-as-a-Service solution for scaling Ruby-on-Rails applications. We congratulate Bluebox on this strategic partnership and are intrigued at the implications...
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...
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...
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...
