Richard Tengdin, Enterprise Solutions Architect at Nth Generation, was awarded the Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Partner “Solution Architect Rock Star for the Public Sector”. It is quite an accomplishment as he was selected from over 100 companies and top technical consultants that support HPE’s state and local customers. He was recognized as a solution architect with deep and wide technical knowledge and understanding of HPE compute and storage; and deemed an expert in co

Technical debt. This is a term used more and more to describe established IT environments that are overdue for updates of many kinds. The demand to deploy new systems and applications along with the lack of budget for regular hardware replacement means regular maintenance tasks can be ignored or deferred too many times, leaving the IT environment at risk. For example, running obsolete vSphere ESXi v5.1 on old processor hardware (i.e., Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, or Opteron serv