Manufacturing IT Blog

Teachers devote so much time and energy to their students. Even outside of the classroom, teachers need to lesson plan, grade tests, run clubs or...

The network is the backbone of your IT system. It allows employees in different locations to communicate easily with each other and to stay on top...

When your company’s network goes down repeatedly or an employee’s laptop is running too slowly, it may seem that the easiest solution is to...

Andover, MA, October 26, 2020: CNS Partners today announced the availability of a new IT solution custom tuned to the needs of manufacturing...

The emphasis of that question is implicitly on the word service.  To legitimately offer Backup as a Service (BaaS) the provider needs to have the...

When you are designing your compute and storage infrastructure, you may be thinking primarily about optimizing the performance for your business...

When a customer wants an estimate, you need quick access to information. It’s not just frustrating when the system is slow to return the numbers...

Anyone who manages a storage area network has probably already learned (perhaps the hard way) that performance and protection are almost mutually...

More times than not, poor network performance can be traced back to a storage system with poor IOPS. But what if you already ran the diagnostics...

Network switches are core components in any network, because everything on the network connects through a switch. If the switch is not performing...

Poor database performance manifests itself as that noticeable (and sometimes intolerable) lag that occurs when navigating, querying, or submitting...

For anyone who has been in IT for a while, the phrase “latency” probably conjures up images of spinning disks, spindles, and actuators… the things...

A fire destroys your building. An earthquake knocks out power to large portions of your region. An equipment failure takes your database offline. ...

Backup systems have evolved from the days when they involved copying data onto disks or tapes – possibly on a schedule but often just whenever...

IOPS (input/output operations per second) is a standard unit of measurement pertaining to the maximum number of reads and writes to non-contiguous...

Manufacturing companies use gates, locks and security cameras to keep their facilities safe. But digital risks to your business should get the...

Businesses function most efficiently when the technology they use is running smoothly. This means, for example, that sales team members can easily...

Disaster can strike any business, in any industry, at any time. Is yours ready to get back on its feet again as quickly as possible? Whether it’s...

That cybercrime causes devastating losses to businesses around the world isn’t news. U.S.-based companies suffer between $57 and $109 billion in...

Downtime is highly disruptive—and thus expensive—for manufacturing firms. Though exact costs are difficult to calculate, there’s little doubt that

When you’re putting together an IT system, it’s easier to focus on cost than reliability. The cost is printed in black and white, whereas...

Your IT systems are the backbone of your business. They provide up-to-date information on inventory and manufacturing and track financial...

If you’re like the majority of leaders in small to mid sized manufacturing firms, it’s likely that you think of your employees as your business’s...

From 1980 to the present, the United States has seen 265 weather- and climate-related disasters that each resulted in more than a billion dollars’...

It’s every business owner’s worst nightmare: one day you discover that every one of your files, on every single device connected to your...

In early May of 2019, a particularly virulent strain of ransomware called RobbinHood struck the city of Baltimore. This was a large-scale and...

“Apocalyptic” isn’t too strong a word to describe the situation. Whether it was caused by a malicious criminal act like a ransomware attack,...