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The October Edition of Pinnacle Digest is Published, and It’s a Good Read.
Here's a summary: Trade Tariffs and You: What's the Impact on IT? Buy Server and Storage as a Service and Govern Them Like a Boss How Cloud Has Changed Commercial Real Estate New Cisco Umbrella Authorization Our Own "Ethical Hacker"
PTP Achieves Cisco Umbrella Authorization for Managed Security Service Provider
Pinnacle Technology Partners (PTP) expands the offerings of its PeakPlus SECURE services through its authorization from Cisco for Umbrella for Managed Security Service Provider. This authorization recognizes Cisco Partners that have mature Managed Security Services...
Buy Server and Storage Resources as a Service. And Govern Them Like a Boss.
$12.9 billion will be wasted on mis-allocated public cloud resources this year. Running your business in the cloud requires you to be as efficient as possible, and we are not just talking about costs. Every second of CPU, each byte of data, and every service activated...
If You’re Going to Cisco Connect at Gillette on 10/30, Bring a Warm Coat!
Cisco is holding a “One Warm Coat” Drive at Cisco Connect! This year, Cisco is teaming with “One Warm Coat” to hold a coat drive. All coats collected will be delivered here locally to help our neighbors who are in need of a warmer winter. There are several ways you...
Living the Cloud Life: Welcome to Our New Office Space
The adoption of the public cloud is not only changing the way IT consumes technology, but it is also changing the way businesses look at real estate. At least, it SHOULD BE. The most obvious impact of the cloud has been on commercial real estate, and the floor space...
Trade Tariffs May Be the Tipping point In IT Consumption Models
Ready for 25% price increases and long hardware lead times? Trade tariffs may be the tipping point in IT consumption models. Frustrated with the recent lead-time and availability issues with many of the major IT networking, storage, and server vendors? The disruption...
Pinnacle Technology Partners Achieves AWS Standard Consulting Partner Status
Pinnacle's rapid momentum continues with the achievement of the next key partnership milestone with AWS, enabling further value it can deliver to consumers of cloud services. Pinnacle Technology Partners, Inc. (PTP), a born-in-the-cloud consulting and services firm,...
The September Edition of Pinnacle Digest is Here and It’s Packed With Goodness
Here's a summary: The latest must-attend events for October and November AWS accolades Sage advice for IT pros A good read on the top 5 cloud challenges and more!
How to Achieve “Application Awareness” in Today’s IT Environments
In today’s networks, as techniques for delivering applications to end-users have evolved, the demands of users on IT have not diminished. In reality, the requirements for diagnosing problems and fixing them, if anything, have escalated as users are more connected than...
Top 25 Reasons NOT to Work with PTP!
Technologies can implement themselves, expertise is not required. Preference to a transactional relationship with a vendor. Don’t value expertise of leaders that have built and led successful customer-centric businesses. Because bigger is always better. There are...
Protecting Your Network from the Latest WPA1/WPA2-PSK Vulnerability
There is a new tool available in the Meraki dashboard to assess if your network is impacted. On August 4, 2018, a new method to exploit a known vulnerability was announced by Jens Steube from the Hashcat project for wireless networks that use WPA1/WPA2-PSK (pre-shared...
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,...
A Personal Attack
Have you recently received an email with one of your actual passwords in the subject line? There is a new email attack circulating where the scammers claim they stole your password and hijacked your webcam. Your password was most likely found in one of the many...