IT systems can scale vertically, horizontally, and sometimes both. In broad terms, vertical scaling, or scale-up, entails installing more powerful systems or upgrading to more powerful components.

Starting a business is one of the most rewarding and high-stakes journeys an entrepreneur can undertake. It’s a well-known statistic that 90% of startups fail, with many never making it past their ...

If you are a startup or small to medium-sized business, you need to think about your scaling-up journey. As entrepreneurs, regardless of the economy, we must grow our businesses or remain stagnant, if ...

There are three basic phases of growth: startup, scale-up and grown-up. While each presents unique obstacles and challenges, the scale-up phase can be particularly difficult for many leaders. I’ll ...

Over the past five years, I worked exclusively on trying to help social ventures scale up at an organization called Spring Impact. As a player in the middle—neither a practitioner nor funder—I spent ...

If you’ve proven your product on a pilot line, and it’s time to turn up real-world production, beware because many companies stumble on their first large-scale build. Before you pour concrete or sign ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. When growing capacity and power ...

Clockwise from top left: Moderator Kathleen Koch is joined by panelists Katherine Cullen of the National Retail Federation, Elisabeth Emory of Blacklion Chicago and Chef Quie Slobert of Charles ...

Governments aren’t generally known as innovative environments. But although innovation may not always come naturally to these institutions, scale certainly does. So when they do find ways to incubate ...

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