An Interview With TierPoint’s Ryan Connolly At PAG, we work with many businesses with the goal of helping them save money through our consultative process. Across industries, there’s a common concern among our customers: how do we prevent losses that are associated with downtime? One effective strategy we’ve seen as technology has evolved is the implementation of a cloud backup and disaster recovery solution. To gain more insight on the subject, I talked with Ryan Connolly, Account … [Read more...]
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The Growing Threat Landscape for SMBs
By Barry Bazen, President at PAG, & Patrick Pocalyko, EVP at CyberHat USA As small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) mature in their use of technologies, the threat landscape increases – 50-60% of reported attacks are perpetrated on SMBs. From an organizational perspective, both enterprises and SMBs are no longer considered safe from cyber attacks. Therefore, it's no longer plausible for an organization to have an attitude of “why am I a threat? I’m not a target.” Most think that giant … [Read more...]
Elevate Your Business Technology With a Telecom Audit
Do you have a wish list of technologies you’d like to implement into your business but don’t have the budget for them? With a telecom audit, your technology roadmap could be on its way to realization. So how can an audit help fulfill your goals? Savings Whether you’re aware of it or not, you may be overspending where you shouldn’t have to be. One such place where you could be leaking money is in your invoices. It’s easy for errors to hide among the jargon and acronyms found in invoices, … [Read more...]
The Misconceptions About SD-WAN
by Barry Bazen, President & Co-Founder, Profit Advisory Group It’s true that SD-WAN has revolutionized how businesses function and how they connect with their disparate branches. It is also true that implementing SD-WAN into a business can result in major savings, but that may not always be the case. There are multiple factors that go into how much you can actually save with SD-WAN such as the number and size of locations and the current network topography of those sites. There are … [Read more...]
Big Data Has Its Eye On You!
Do you remember that “Like” on Facebook from four years ago, or the “Share” on LinkedIn last July 7th, or the Google search you did back in 2009? What about every magazine subscription, credit card application, doctor’s office visit, prescription filled, or every item you have ever purchased at Walmart? You don’t recall all of them; well brace yourself because BIG DATA DOES and big companies are paying BIG BUCKS to find out all that info and MUCH, MUCH more about you. Today's Telecom Tuesday … [Read more...]
TT: Breaking News That May Forever Alter The BYOD Movement
Many have watched, wondered and waited for the first Legal shoe to drop in the evolving trend of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) as the waters were murky and clouded with fear and uncertainty. On August 12th the California Second District Appellate Court issued a ruling that while simple in its decision, is bound to have profound and far-reaching impact on Companies across the Country. BYOD in Court The Court heard the case of Cochran v Schwan’s Home Service with a seemingly simple request from … [Read more...]
Telecom Tuesdays: Is Copper Dead
If you have tried to order POTS lines, DSL or T1 access from the major telecom providers you may have experienced this comment “we no longer support that service”. Many of the big players are moving these services off of copper and onto their all IP fiber solutions such as FIOS and U-Verse or wireless. While for some (especially in the consumer market) this is not a major issue, for business customers that require a non- shared environment this is rapidly becoming a major concern. Telecom … [Read more...]
Telecom Tuesdays: The Internet of Things (IOT)
It's been almost 2 months since we first launched Telecom Tuesdays. Thanks to everybody who has read the blogs and shared them on social media. We hope you have learned from them, and can use them to help you save some money. Today's post is a relatively new term that is being used, and it's also widely debated for obvious reasons. The Internet of Things Presently this is more of a concept than it is a marketable service, feature or solution. IOT is taking ALL devices, systems, services and … [Read more...]
Telecom Tuesdays: Broadsoft
Today's Telecom Tuesday post is interesting because it's a term that gets thrown around in the industry a lot, but it's also a company. Broadsoft Broadsoft is a company whose name has become synonymous with the IP technology that enables the convergence of voice, data and video communications. Much like the word “Xerox”, which is a company name, but is also a term used to describe the act of making a photocopy of a document. Broadsoft provides the technology that powers the backbone of the … [Read more...]
Telecom Tuesdays: 4G
I'm sure you've heard the focus of today's Telecom Tuesdays post being thrown around, and you've probably heard commercials about it, but do you actually know what it is, or how it can help your business? 4th Generation 4G is short for 4th generation of mobile telecommunications technology. 1G was used from 1981-1992 and it supported analog transmission (think back to dropped and static-filled calls). Digital was the upgrade that ushered in 2G (1992-2001) and call quality became markedly more … [Read more...]
