As the planet continues to adapt to changes in response to the global health pandemic, unprecedented change continues to unfold. How it started: COVID launched accelerated adoption of cloud-based services across all sectors. In short, as social distancing guidelines emerged in response to the pandemic cloud became the way of the world. If your business wasn’t cloud-based, you very quickly found a way to deliver […]

Driven by modernization, cyber, cloud, and AI, Government-wide IT spending across all agencies is projected to be $90.9B for FY2021. Agencies are undergoing the largest digital transformation in history and are faced with challenges like legacy infrastructure, growing data delivery needs, and navigating the complex web of solutions with a limited pool of trusted advisors. They are accomplishing this while also navigating social distance requirements […]

This brave new digital world we’re building every day requires a high-speed broadband connection. Many rural areas in the United States are unable to take advantage of digital services and capabilities that are an everyday part of life for urban residents – from running and growing a business to completing school assignments, applying for a job, accessing high-quality health care, keeping up with the news, […]

It’s a fairly well known fact that women are underrepresented in the worlds of science, technology, engineering, and math. Some progress has definitely been made, so let’s see where the statistics stand today. Statistics show that women now hold a lower share of computer science jobs than they did in the 1980’s.  New technologies are advancing rapidly and solutions to store, compute, and transfer data […]

Right sizing and distributing workloads across a hybrid environment makes all the difference for performance, cost, security, and scale. But not every cloud is the right cloud and not every data center is the same. The secret to unlocking the hybrid cloud is understanding how the benefits of all available options in the mix can help you to more effectively deploy assets to where they […]

At the close of 2018, there were more than 16 million people working in healthcare – an estimated 11% of all jobs in the US economy. Industry growth and demand for new technologies and digital health tools that enable healthcare professionals to collaborate and engage patients in their own healthcare journey is also on the rise. Digital health tools that deliver a seamless healthcare experience […]

Analysts from Gartner, 451 Research, and Forrester came together at PTC 2019 to share industry insights on trends for the year ahead. Long story short, all things submarine cables, connectivity, data centers, cloud, and constellations. Long story, long. This…. Everyone wants their own submarine cable. Datacenter and telecom players are exploring mergers, acquisitions, and partnerships to meet enterprise and hyper scale needs through connectivity and […]

With one of the most anticipated UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) fight cards of the year, UFC229 (Oct 6th), rapidly approaching, we couldn’t help but to take this opportunity to build an analogy between Cloud Computing and Mixed Martial Arts (MMA).   To start, when you look at mixed martial arts one of the first things you have to consider is weight class. For those that aren’t […]

Portland-based Opus Interactive has been providing clients colocation and cloud hosting solutions from Tier III+ datacenters across the US for more than 20 years. Today, under the leadership of CEO and majority owner Shannon Hulbert, the woman-owned business is working to unite people and technology through a customized, white-glove approach to web hosting solutions, server virtualization technology, and managed IT services. We sat down with […]