ReluTech Blog Posts
What You Need To Know About Prospecting
Prospecting is oftentimes a daunting term within sales. Most people equate prospecting to cold calling, cold emailing, and a slew of unsolicited touchpoints. They are not wrong; prospecting often feels like the uncomfortable annoyance of leads you so desperately want...
My Assets are Killing Me: Part 1
Why is 2020 different? In my introduction to the series, I discussed the incredible march of technological progress over the past 55 years, predicted by the famous Moore’s Law. In that time period, we have seen processing power increase by approximately 40% a year....
Why the Alternative Maintenance Industry Is Booming: Introduction
Alternative maintenance, also known as third party maintenance, is an interesting offering. It’s a service filled with massive cost savings, flexibility, buying power, and leverage for companies that own data center hardware. For the better part of a decade, I have...
Starting with the End in Mind: Part 1
The working backwards heuristic is a method of problem-solving in which the problem solver begins with the end goal state and works backwards to the problem’s starting position. The concept is applicable for creating a product or service that customers need today –...
My Assets are Killing Me: Introduction
In this series, My Assets are Killing Me, I will explore the effects of digital disruption on the data center, address the obsolescence of tech assets, and develop some strategies to deal with our ever-changing technology environment. As I will explain, technology...
Justice League Runs For Justice
Pay It Forward is one of our six values here at ReluTech and it’s one of my personal favorites that I believe our employees truly live out. It brings together our small community, while also helping us reach out to the communities that surround us. In light of the...
Top 3 AWS Certifications in 2020
As public cloud adoption continues to increase, and with Amazon Web Services (AWS) leading the charge, cloud certifications are more prevalent than ever before. Not only is AWS the market leader in cloud adoption, but they are also the most seasoned cloud provider...
The Big Bad Migration Bubble (And How to Defeat It)
Since the beginning of my career in technology, I have greatly appreciated the way that work has allowed IT to become a tangible thing for me. I remember getting my first smartphone in high school and thinking how amazing it was that I was able to pull information...
Faster Than Flash
One of my all-time favorite superheroes has always been The Flash! I mean, come on… what’s cooler than being able to run so fast that everything else appears to be standing still? I can l vividly remember when I was a kid and thinking I was the fastest runner in gym...
Migration Bubble Buster Strategy: Buy/Lease Back Service
At ReluTech, we have a process called the Migration Bubble Buster Strategy, or MBBS, to make cloud migration easier and cost-effective. This five-step process includes Discovery, Data Center Evacuation as a Service, Maintenance, Staffing, and Disposal. Today, I am...