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Why infrastructure strategy can no longer be static By Elton Tucker Blue Mantis Executive takeaway: Resilience used to mean recovery after failure. Increasingly, it means changing safely before the business is forced to react under pressure. For mid-marke

PORTSMOUTH, N.H., Sept. 17, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Blue Mantis, a leading provider of digital strategy and services specializing in managed se...

By Randy Becker, VP and Principal Security Architect, Blue Mantis I ask executives the same question when I meet them for the first time. What keeps you up at night? I expect to hear ransomware. Or data theft. Or a regulator. What I almost always get inst

Cloud optimization has become a standard IT discipline. We look for idle resources, oversized workloads, unused licenses, and services that cost more than the value they create. Technology consumption will keep growing, so IT leaders need to understand wh

Governance has moved closer to the work By Elton Tucker Blue Mantis Bottom line: AI governance cannot remain a policy document people are expected to remember. It has to become an operating capability-embedded in the workflows, platforms, identity control

Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget by April. Four months. A company that spends $3.4 billion a year on R&D, with some of the best engineers and finance teams in the world, missed its own AI cost forecast by a factor of three. If they can get it

Aging infrastructure rarely fails all at once. Instead, the real cost builds slowly. Support fees creep upward. Workarounds become normal. Innovation gets delayed. Over time, the cumulative impact becomes hard to ignore. The challenge is not recognizing a

When infrastructure reaches a decision point, the path forward is rarely obvious. Some systems continue to perform well but are nearing lifecycle limits. Others introduce pressure through cost, risk, or complexity. In many environments, the challenge is n

Let's start with an uncomfortable truth: most IT teams aren't prioritizing aging infrastructure based on risk. They're prioritizing based on volume. Whatever system is generating the loudest alerts, the angriest support tickets, or the most nervous emails