Managed Collaboration Services – the New Mantra for Business Enablement

By Ravi Gonuguntla, Director, Managed Services, Aspire Technology Partners Organizations often find themselves incorporating multiple disparate technologies in search of a perfect blend of solutions to meet everyday business needs. A convergence of unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) environments, for example, can become unwieldy and disjointed – with numerous service provider networks, various messaging and […]

IT Leaders turn to Centers of Excellence to Boost the Delivery of Technology Initiatives

By Doug Stevens, VP, Managed Services for Aspire Technology Partners Today’s business landscape is placing increasing demands on IT. CEOs now view technology as a critical enabler of business strategy, and core to how their organization plans to grow and transform. This thinking is driving CIOs to maximize IT’s impact on the business by aligning […]

Power Up Your Customer Experience with Managed Services

By Aspire Technology Partners In addition to increasing productivity, performance, and profitability with Managed Services as I shared in my previous blog, Managed Services play an important role in improving the customer experience. The answer to why is simple: The less you invest (time, money and resources) on IT, the more you can focus on […]

Customer Experience: What CEOs Need to Spot When Choosing an MSP

By John C. Harris, President & CEO, Aspire Technology Partners Understanding how out-tasking or outsourcing works for your organization is important. It is similarly critical to establish the goals between the outsourcing organization and the provider. When both parties agree and both sides are understood, a true and lasting partnership can be established. In my […]

Managed Services: The CEO’s Secret Weapon for Business Outcome Sustainability

By John C. Harris, President & CEO, Aspire Technology Partners The fast-changing and ever-growing demands of the modern enterprise pose an array of challenges that require leadership to make some critical decisions. In IT organizations, a common challenge is filling those gaps in operational efficiency and technical expertise that directly correlate to cost. In this […]

LOB POV: Working with a Managed Services Provider? Make Sure They Own Your Business Outcomes.

By Frost Schroeder, Emerging Technologies Executive for Aspire Technology Partners Like you, our sales organization needs immediate access to customer data like contacts, contracts, and prior sales information. They need to connect from the office, home, customer sites, and Starbucks. My guys also work odd hours; in fact, a lot of our office work is […]

Increase Productivity Performance and Profitability with Managed Services

By Lorraine Azzinaro, Chief Operating Officer, Aspire Technology Partners From the perspective of the COO, managed services play a significant role in company productivity, performance, and profitability. Managed services enable companies to focus on their core competencies where they can become more competitive and, ultimately, more profitable. Technology is constantly changing- becoming more complex- and […]

Aspire Technology Partners’ Top 5 2018 Achievements

2019 still has the brand new car smell and the shine of new paint on it. We're more than halfway into the first month of another New Year filled with exciting change and new possibilities.

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, […]

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 […]

Beyond the Data Sheet: Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)

Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine): Beyond the Data Sheet Today’s post is adapted from a recent Aspire webinar titled Beyond The Data Sheet: Cisco Identity Services Engine (Cisco ISE). The webinar was hosted by Cody Harris, Aspire Senior Solutions Architect. Introduction This article provides a real world perspective in working with ISE from successful deployments. […]

New Cybersecurity Regulation Impacts New York Financial Firms

May Become a Model for Other States to Follow The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) introduced a new cybersecurity regulation for financial services companies that took effect on March 1, 2017. The regulation carries a heavy compliance burden that is intended to protect clients, consumers, and financial entities from the ever-growing threat of […]