Background:  Our customer is a regionally-focused managed service provider (MSP) located in Southern California with an enterprise client who was looking to complete a data center refresh.   The end user client is a $4B publicly traded healthcare provider with data centers in three states. They maintained a stable IT environment, but had made some recent…

These days, IT architectures are in flux. Some major IT trends – like Big Data, AI, IoT, and virtualized everything – have led to a radical change: The underlying networks + nodes of enterprise IT are now designed to harmonize with futuristic tech. When applications employ AI, IoT, and the like, they increase the demand…