Enterprise Wireless: Wi-Fi 5 & 6 Selection and Implementation

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Enterprise Wireless: Wi-Fi 5 & 6 Selection and Implementation

Written by Michael Keller, Senior Consulting Engineer, Aspire Technology Partners Wireless technology evolves as rapid as wireless technology Wireless technology is rapidly evolving, along with the requirements for enterprises that require upgrades to either an existing or a new architecture. The challenge for any upgrade to your wireless environment is determining your organization’s needs and […]

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Use Case for L2TPv3

Written by Rio Zavarce, Principal Consulting Engineer, Aspire Technology Partners How to maintain Access to All IT Systems During a Data Center Migration Maintaining access to all IT systems during a data center migration poses a technical limitation: duplicate IP subnets cannot exist in two geographically-disperse locations simultaneously. It is possible, however, to implement a […]

How to Fix Your Students’ Broken Hybrid Learning Model Right Now Featured Image

How to Fix Your Students’ Broken Hybrid Learning Model Right Now

There is a simple solution that works with existing equipment without breaking the bank for your school district. By Greg Klausa, Aspire’s VP for Digital Architectures, Aspire Technology Partners As schoolteachers and administrators, you know there is nothing “normal” about how our kids are going to school right now. If you’re also a parent of […]

Employing a Cross-Architecture Solutions Approach to Achieve Your Business and Technology Goals Featured Image

Employing a Cross-Architecture Solutions Approach to Achieve Your Business and Technology Goals

By Greg Klausa, Chief Architect & VP Digital Architectures at Aspire Technology Partners CIOs and line of business executives often discuss employing “best practices” for their digital transformation initiatives. This means using a series of recognized methods to achieve a repeatable objective. Best practices are often developed into case studies or use cases for reference […]

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Making Safe Space Solutions Work in the Real World

Written by Carter Yepsen, Aspire Director of Business Development for IoT Abstract/Introduction As states and cities move towards reopening during the pandemic, the need for systems integration solutions to keep workplace environments safe becomes more and more important. Problem Statement Employees, visitors, patients, and customers all should feel comfortable when they come on-site to your […]

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Seven Considerations in Using VDI for a Resilient Remote Workforce

Perhaps the most dramatic change that many of us have needed to adjust to during the pandemic is working remotely. While some of us have had the opportunity to work remotely as a convenience, or when we’ve gone off to be head’s down and focused on a project, there were other times when “being remote” […]

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Ten Takeaways from “60 Days to the Fall Semester” CIO Panel Discussion

Aspire Technology Partners, in partnership with Cisco, recently conducted a CIO panel discussion on Higher Education IT, with a focus on efforts to re-open campuses safely for students this fall. Higher Education has seen massive disruption because of the global pandemic. News articles across the nation detail emerging student-led class-action lawsuits over tuition, the emergence of elite […]

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The Critical Role of Data Management in Business Resilience

In these challenging times brought about by this global health crisis, business resilience has taken on a whole new meaning. In the past, it was mainly focused on a few critical applications, a relatively small percentage of data that was critical to restart or recover the business and all of which was focused on getting […]

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Businesses Continuity Replaces Disaster Recovery

There is no shortage of things we can point to that have changed as a result of the pandemic, some of which we hope to never revisit. Others will be preserved as the new normal. For businesses, the focus on business continuity will forever replace traditional disaster recovery planning. Of course, that does not mean […]

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Cisco Workload Optimization Manager & Elastic Infrastructure: Making Complex Decisions at Scale

In today’s world, we see digital technologies driving growth, opening new markets, and creating mind-blowing customer experiences. New businesses are being “born” in the cloud every day. To compete and thrive, companies must continue to innovate in order to improve productivity, scale, and differentiate themselves in a crowded marketplace. More so than ever, applications, workloads, […]

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Application Performance Management 101

Introduction Understanding the importance and benefits of Application Performance Management as a proactive monitoring and remediation tool to detect, locate, diagnose, fix application performance issues. Background Monolithic application architectures required any single update to the application to be applied to the whole application stack. Due to the criticality of the application, updates slowed releases and […]