Articles In Infrastructure

By Ken Phelan, Posted in Infrastructure

Everyone wants to talk about AI. Nobody wants to talk about the thing that's going to determine whether AI pays off: your data. Here's the uncomfortable truth I keep running into with clients. The models are fine. The models are, frankly, astonishing. If your AI initiative fails, it almost certainly won't be because the model wasn't smart enough. It will be because the model couldn't get to your data, or because getting it there cost more than the value it created. The Access Problem We spent the last fi... read more.

• July 22, 2026

By Joshua Joseph, Posted in Infrastructure, Security

Executive Summary Enterprise cloud environments spanning Azure, AWS, hybrid data centers, and SaaS platforms have outgrown legacy "full interception" network security models. Routing all traffic through centralized Network Virtual Appliances (NVAs) for blanket inspection creates severe operational friction, inflates infrastructure costs, and introduces system bottlenecks. By transitioning from an indiscriminate "inspect everything" philosophy to a "context-aware traffic separation" model, an enterprise ca... read more.

• July 07, 2026

By Timothy Karl, Posted in Infrastructure, Virtualization

Citrix Platform Flex is one of the more meaningful changes we’ve seen in the platform in recent years, not because of new features, but because it changes how we think about delivering and consuming Citrix. At a high level, Platform Flex introduces a persona-based consumption model. Instead of assigning the same resources and licensing to every user, organizations can purchase a pool of capacity and allocate it based on what different users actually need Why It Matters Most environments today are s... read more.

• June 30, 2026

By Ken Phelan, Posted in Infrastructure

So anyway, let me tell you about the robots. In 1950, Detroit employed over 220,000 auto workers. Good union jobs. Good wages. By 1970, half of them were gone. Not to Mexico. Not to China. To robots and assembly line automation that simply didn’t need much human labor. By 1982, another 400,000 jobs disappeared in just four years. Cities hollowed out. Communities devastated. Here’s the part that surprised me. Cars didn’t get cheaper. All that productivity. All that automation. A robot-ho... read more.

• May 21, 2026

By Timothy Karl, Posted in Infrastructure

As more organizations look to move desktops to the cloud, many don’t want to give up the platforms they already rely on. For teams running Citrix, Amazon WorkSpaces Core offers a simple way to extend into AWS without starting over. This shift is important because, historically, Azure was effectively the only practical option for running Windows 10/11 multi-session desktops, especially for organizations aligned with Microsoft 365. In many cases, that meant customers were forced into Azure for VDI, eve... read more.

• March 30, 2026

By Gotham, Posted in Infrastructure

Written with contributions from Brian Wagner, Practice Director - EUC and Cloud, Ryan Lee, Senior Solutions Architect, Gotham Technology Group, and Dean Cefola, Principal Technical Marketing Manager, Nerdio. Windows 365 offers a predictable, per-user monthly pricing model that simplifies cloud VDI budgeting. However, without proper oversight, costs can escalate due to over-provisioned resources and underutilized licenses. Proactive cost management is essential to maximize your return on inve... read more.

• January 19, 2026

By Gotham, Posted in Infrastructure

Written with contributions from Brian Wagner, Practice Director - EUC and Cloud, Ryan Lee, Senior Solutions Architect, Gotham Technology Group, and Dean Cefola, Principal Technical Marketing Manager, Nerdio. Windows 365 offers a predictable, per-user monthly pricing model that simplifies cloud VDI budgeting. However, without proper oversight, costs can escalate due to over-provisioned resources and underutilized licenses. Proactive cost management is essential to maximize your return on inve... read more.

• January 19, 2026

By Jason Santamaria, Posted in Infrastructure, Storage

As someone with a long-standing career in network security, I always make a conscious effort to avoid dealing with data backup. My involvement typically ends at providing a port for converged access, after which I confidently pass off any backup-related questions or requests to other specialists. However, the story behind Eon Cloud Backup has piqued my interest and made me reconsider my stance on data protection. Security is a core component of Eon. The solution incorporates ransomware detection, immutable... read more.

• December 22, 2025

By Timothy Karl, Posted in Infrastructure

Microsoft has officially set the end-of-life date for both Exchange Server 2016 and Exchange Server 2019: October 14, 2025. That might sound like a long way off, but in IT terms, it’s right around the corner, especially if your organization still relies on Exchange for SMTP relay, hybrid identity, or legacy app integration. Here’s what’s changing and how to prepare. What’s Replacing Exchange 2016 and 2019? Instead of releasing a new standalone version of Exchange, Microsoft is mov... read more.

• July 22, 2025

By Ed Bratter, Posted in Infrastructure

Security of an Active Directory (AD) infrastructure can be significantly increased by deploying Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) and installing certificates on domain controllers (DC). AD CS plays a foundational role for enabling certificate-based security across a range of services in AD. Some notable security enhancements are as follows:  Securing AD communication between domain joined machines. Allow for securing LDAP traffic, which by default is not encrypted. This means that cre... read more.

• July 22, 2025