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The Steadfast blog is where our highly technical management team and engineers will offer expert, practical advice for the IT Infrastructure industry. Keep an eye out for additional special events!

Bare Metal or Cloud: Choosing The Right Infrastructure Hosting For An Early-Stage Startup

11/23/2016

Startup founders have no end of infrastructure hosting choices. Making the wrong choice can limit agility, increase costs, and put a brake on growth. Technological debt applies to infrastructure too... more

Cloud Servers Are Not Precious Possessions To Be Tweaked And Coddled

11/02/2016

Before virtualization and the cloud, a server was a precious thing. Servers were expensive physical objects that had to be purchased and carefully configured before being hooked up to a network in a... more

The Cloud Can Bring Geographic Diversity And Fast Disaster Recovery To Your Business

10/26/2016

| Cloud

Comprehensive disaster recovery plans and geographically diverse infrastructure deployments have historically been limited to large enterprise organizations. They were an expensive and time-consuming... more

Is The Cloud Always Cheaper Than On-Premises Or Colocated Infrastructure?

10/19/2016

| Cloud

Cost is one of the major motivations for enterprise cloud migrations. Cloud platforms enable companies to deploy and scale infrastructure in line with changing demand, and with metered billing,... more

How Does A Web Application Firewall Protect Your Business’s Applications?

10/12/2016

| Managed IT

As businesses transition from traditionally-licensed enterprise software to software-as-a-service applications hosted in the cloud, the security of the application layer becomes ever more critical.... more

Is Bimodal IT The Way Forward For Enterprise IT?

10/05/2016

| Managed IT

A full-scale cloud migration of existing business infrastructure is a daunting prospect for established enterprise organizations, especially if business critical systems run perfectly well on legacy... more

Cloud Platforms Facilitate An IT-As-A-Service Approach

09/28/2016

| Cloud

Once upon a time, IT departments were the gatekeepers of enterprise infrastructure. Their concerns were almost purely technical and their approach conservative. At the time, that may have been the... more

Are Dedicated Servers More Secure Than The Cloud?

09/21/2016

| Cloud

Cloud platforms have historically had an undeserved poor reputation for security compared to dedicated hardware. Much of that reputation was due to the ingrained suspicion of IT professionals who... more

Cloud Automation Helps Reduce IT Infrastructure Costs

08/31/2016

On-demand pricing is a headline features of cloud platforms. Cloud infrastructure hosting clients pay for the resources they use. There’s little need to have idle infrastructure lying around because... more

What Does A Real Cloud Platform Look Like?

08/24/2016

| Cloud

Take a look at this graph from Google Trends. It shows the relative interest over time for a pair of terms. The blue indicates web hosting, and the red indicates cloud computing. Google Trends is a... more

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