Category: Blog

Sterling celebrates 25th anniversary!

A history in progress Success has taken Sterling from a tiny tech startup based in California, staffed by a handful of employees — most from the Midwest — to a staff of more than 260 employees across eight locations, including, since 2019, the newly remodeled 83,000-square-foot headquarters and innovation center

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Sterling Achieves CRN Triple Crown Status

A Recognition of Exceptional IT Solution Provider Service NORTH SIOUX CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA (October 11, 2021) — Southeast South Dakota information-technology company Sterling announced today that CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Sterling as a 2021 Triple Crown Award winner. This award celebrates standout solution providers for

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Looking forward: VMware® vSphere and vSAN 7.0 U3

By Nathan Bennett, Sterling Cloud Architect If you’ve ever been the administrator of a local data center or a data center for a business, you understand what it’s like to continually have more and more piled onto your plate. In a former job, I often had to manage automation tools

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Extending Your Data Center during a Chip Shortage

By Sterling Cloud Architects Nathan Bennett and Billy Downing   Whispers and concerns about a chip shortage had already begun back in early 2020, when COVID first hit. With offices shut down and the workforce working remotely, people were updating their older computer systems to newer ones and purchasing home-office

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Three starting points for the zero-trust roadmap

Written by: Jenni Barber, Sterling   With cyberattacks increasing at an exponential rate from 2020 to 2021, make sure you are proactive and prepared, with risk mitigation, incident-response plans, and a Zero-Trust cybersecurity model in place. Don’t fall into the ransomware trap and become a statistic of cyber breach. Three

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Chipageddon – How will you respond?

By Sterling Cloud Architect Nathan Bennett From empty shelves in the grocery store to the lack of vehicles in the local car dealership to the massive gap in the production and distribution of computer chips, COVID-19’s disruptions to the supply chain continues. (The pandemic wasn’t the only disrupter, of course.

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Sterling Makes CRN® Fast Growth 150 List for Seventh Year

CRN® Recognizes the Top IT Channel Providers for Exceptional Performance and Growth NORTH SIOUX CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA, August 9, 2021 — Value-added information-technology reseller Sterling announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company®, has named Sterling to its 2021 Fast Growth 150 list, in 137th place. With this

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