1. Technologies can implement themselves, expertise is not required. 2. Preference to a transactional relationship with a vendor. 3. Don’t value expertise of leaders that have built and led successful customer-centric businesses. 4. Because bigger is always better. 5....
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Meraki MR + Umbrella: A Match Made In the Cloud
Meraki APs now integrate with Cisco Umbrella, the industry’s first Secure Internet Gateway, to protect wireless clients from malicious online threats. The pace at which new security threats are being introduced and propagated online has reached exponential levels,...
AWS: This Is My Architecture
In this installment of the AWS YouTube series, This Is My Architecture, Bob Pease, Director of Engineering at CloudCheckr, explains how they built a flexible, scalable solution on AWS that leverages Windows Server on EC2, RDS for SQL Server, IAM, and S3. CloudCheckr's...
5 Security Free-Trial Offers You Should Take Advantage Of
Imagine if you could take a car off the dealer's lot and drive it around for a couple weeks, for free, before you have to commit to purchasing it. See how it handles. See how it performs. See how it fits in your garage. The word "free" is seldom associated with...
The Cloud is Ending IT Careers. Do You Have a Plan?
I’ve worked with hundreds of I.T. Directors and VPs in the past 20 years. I call myself a friend to many Network, Server, and Storage Admins. I respect all of you and I hope you’re all doing well. Most of you have heard from me in the last 12 months. Some have even...
When Managed IT Services for Life Sciences Make Sense—and When They Don’t
Commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin, the quote “…nothing in this world can be said to be certain but death and taxes…” seems more true every day, and—just having gone through federal tax filing—it’s more painful than ever! Interestingly though, we love to speak...
PTP Poised for Growth in Managed Security Services
Worldwide Spending on Security Solutions Forecast to Reach $91 Billion in 2018, According to a New IDC Spending Guide Managed security services (single-tenant solutions operated by third-party providers and residing on the customers’ premises) will be the largest...
Containing the Cost of the Cloud
We’ve got clients in all stages of cloud adoption, from the nascent migrators to the “we’re all ins.” Each stage of the journey has its own challenges, and our job is to engineer solutions for each client, at each stage. The final stage in the cloud journey (if there...