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November 27, 2017
Cloud, Data Migration, Data Protection, Education, Financial Services, Healthcare, Hybrid IT, Manufacturing, Retail

Here are a few reasons why cloud services should be in your 2018 IT budget, and some tips for how to get started in moving to the cloud.

June 19, 2017
Cloud, Data Migration, Hybrid IT, Manufacturing

Morrison Industrial Equipment was in a situation in which could not move a critical piece of hardware to the cloud. Find out what IT solution US Signal implemented.

April 9, 2017
Cloud, Data Migration, Hybrid IT

Developing a hybrid IT strategy starts with understanding your workloads. Use this blog to identify their requirements.

January 29, 2017
Cloud, Colocation, Data Migration, Manufacturing

No two migration projects will ever be the same. However, the Morrison Industrial Equipment project illustrates some of the key components that can help make moving data to a cloud environment easier.

January 19, 2017
Data Migration

US Signal can’t directly transfer knowledge to you, but we can share lessons learned to help make your migration project successful.

January 16, 2017
Data Migration

In blog #1 and #2 of this series, we covered what you need to think about prior to moving your data to the cloud and some of the methodologies to choose from for the data migration. Now it’s time to plan the move and execute it. Unfortunately, there is no one-size-fits-all cloud migration plan. The [...]

January 13, 2017
Data Migration

In part 1 of our blog series on data migration, we discussed the considerations for BEFORE the move. Now it’s time to talk about how to make the move. There are many options to choose from, whether you choose to handle the cloud migration yourself or enlist the help of a CSP’s professional services team. The following are [...]

January 9, 2017
Data Migration

No one likes moving to a new home. It’s time-consuming and labor intensive. There’s the prep work, including finding the right place, getting the financing in order, transferring over utilities, etc. You’ll want to sort and pack things so they are easy to find and label your boxes so they end up in the right place. In [...]

June 23, 2016
Data Migration, US Signal

Migration projects are lengthy and complicated, especially at scale. When US Signal had to migrate hundreds of VMs and 50 TB of data, they knew this would be an extensive project. Adding another layer of complexity, the customer they were migrating was adding terabytes of data on a daily basis. Due to this rapid rate of [...]