What is Hybrid Storage?
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What is Hybrid Storage?

Hybrid storage is the merging of RAM, Solid State Drives, and traditional hard drives to deliver better performance from storage arrays while keeping costs down. If you separate these storage options out and look at them individually, they each have strengths and weaknesses. For instance, Random Access Memory (RAM) is the hardware in a computing…

What does SIP mean to you?

By Todd Wirth, Lightedge Engineer Businesses depend on voice communication.  Even today in a world of text messaging and email, voice calls are vital to connect businesses with customers, suppliers and partners.  Most enterprises have aging phone systems doing the bare minimum: making and taking calls.  Times they are a-changing, however, and business people are…

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Microsoft's head is in the clouds, but for providers, that's a good thing!

  “Providers, Providers, Providers!” was the chant at Microsoft’s TechED 2012 session, and everything I have read, the webinars I have watched and the training the Redmond company is delivering, tells a simple story of Microsoft’s interest in dominating the service provider space by not only delivering cost effective platform solutions, but the tools and…

Should you backup data or entire VM?

By Matt Breitbach, Lightedge Engineer With the rise of virtualization, there is a persistent question that comes up when people evaluate backup platforms. That question is: should I back up my data (documents, emails, databases) or my entire VM?  This is a great question from many perspectives. Below are some tips to help you decide…

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Questions to ask before moving to the cloud

By Matt Patterson, Lightedge Engineer Everyone is talking about Cloud these days? Are you in the cloud? Is your infrastructure cloud ready? What the heck is the cloud? You may already be using the cloud and just don’t know it. With all the talk of the cloud of what it is and what it isn’t,…

Lightedge Solutions Achieves Gold Level Status as a Polycom Choice Partner

Lightedge broadens its expertise in implementing unified communications solutions within today’s complex customer environments DES MOINES, IA – July  10, 2012 – Lightedge Solutions, an industry leading cloud IT services provider, today announced it has been named by Polycom, Inc., the global leader in open, standards-based unified communications (UC), as a Gold Level Polycom Choice…

Lightedge Solutions Achieves Gold Level Status as a Polycom Choice Partner

Lightedge broadens its expertise in implementing unified communications solutions within today’s complex customer environments DES MOINES, IA – July  9, 2012 – Lightedge Solutions, an industry leading cloud IT services provider, today announced it has been named by Polycom, Inc., the global leader in open, standards-based unified communications (UC), as a Gold Level Polycom Choice…

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Cloud: Are you there…and just don't realize it?

Everyone is talking cloud today. That can lead to a lot of in-depth discussions about where a company sits in their ability to take advantage of the cloud, security concerns, management and control, and the list goes on. What a lot of companies don’t consider as they hold these conversations, is that they’re probably already…

Lightedge goes outdoors to support Easter Seals

Lightedge goes outdoors to support Easter Seals

Lightedge team members were very busy this past week sprucing up our adopted garden at Easter Seals’ Camp Sunnyside Child Development Center! The undertaking this summer was not quite as painful as last year when we worked through severe downpours, so we were able to cruise through it all in much less time…good news for…