TOP GUN BLOG
Learn about the latest IT trends and news from the Top Gun engineering team. Top Gun team has an extensive knowledge base of Dell EMC, HPE, IBM, Lenovo, Oracle, and Cisco maintenance solutions cover the complex, legacy servers as well as industry standard (x86).
Helpful Insights When Choosing Your TPM Partner
Helpful Insights When Choosing Your TPM Partner By Chris Miller, Top Gun Technology The third-party maintenance (TPM) industry continues to experience market disruption due to the M&A frenzy, leaving behind a wave of distrust and concern within its MSP/VAR Channel. If you happen to be one of the MSP/VAR providers [...]
12 Essentials of a Well-Managed Data Center Relocation
12 Essentials of a Well-Managed Data Center Relocation By Donna Pizarro, Top Gun Technology Physically moving a data center from one location to another can be a very daunting IT project! For those not entirely familiar with the planning, the method and the logical order of this kind of transition, [...]
Why Your Data Center Hardware Support Provider Must Continually Invest in a Robust R&D Lab
Why Your Data Center Hardware Support Provider Must Continually Invest in a Robust R&D Lab By Craig Wilson, Top Gun Technology The amount of investment any TPM (Third Party Maintenance) provider makes in their engineering lab has a direct impact on the level of mission-critical support they’re truly able to [...]
HP-UX Support Roadmap – Trends & Planning: Check Out the HP-UX “Bathtub Curve”
HP-UX Support Roadmap - Trends & Planning: Check Out the HP-UX “Bathtub Curve” By Melissa Girona, Top Gun Technology Are you aware of HPE’s evolving support trends for your HP-UX servers? If not, or you’ve only heard rumors, this short blog is intended to be helpful and ensure preparedness so [...]
Q1-23 EoSL Dates for Your Enterprise Servers, Storage & Network Assets
Q1-23 EoSL Dates for Your Enterprise Servers, Storage & Network Assets By Brian Kjera, Top Gun Technology Many hardware asset managers or IT operations professionals track data center hardware EoSL dates because, EoSL dates are essential to managing IT budgets, especially in preparation for support renewals and during periods of [...]
December ‘22 EoSL Dates for Your Enterprise Servers, Storage & Network Hardware
December ‘22 EoSL Dates for Your Data Center Servers, Storage & Network Hardware By Brian Kjera, Top Gun Technology IT operations (or ITAM) professionals will often track data center hardware EoSL dates as they are “triggers” essential to containing IT budgets, especially for support renewals and critical during inflationary periods. [...]