Aspire Blog Series

Written by Rio Zavarace, Principal Consulting Engineer, Aspire Technology Partners Introduction: Facing SD-WAN as a Route-Switch Cisco Engineer There is a point in time when many route-switch Cisco engineers face SD-WAN. After living the CLI lifestyle for so many years, a centralized, GUI-based approach brings a different way of deploying configurations to routers. The purpose […]

Written by Rio Zavarace, Principal Consulting Engineer, Aspire Technology Partners Introduction If you are a seasoned Cisco engineer with knowledge of and experience with Dynamic Multipoint VPNs and/or iWAN, and you want to get started with Cisco SD-WAN with cEdges (IOS-based SD-WAN routers), this paper may be for you. In this post, I will summarize […]

By Michael Keller, Senior Consulting Engineering, Aspire Technology Partners As is the case with any enterprise, a variety of components make up a network locally (LAN) or over a wide area network (WAN). Oftentimes, as years pass by, and engineers and administrators shuffle in and out of an enterprise, configurations can be layered or dated, […]

By Amanda LaBrecque, Vice President of Customer Success & Lifecycle Services at Aspire Technology Partners Every company, including yours, is looking at ways to achieve successful outcomes with their technology investment. But that technology is changing rapidly and can be very challenging to understand and manage. Consider some of the latest technologies that companies in […]

Written by Bob Mill, Senior Director, Cohesity, & Christian Chavez, Data Center & Cloud Solutions Architect, Aspire Technology Partners Every 11 seconds, bad actors compromise a business and their data, whether through a direct hack, phishing emails, or most recently, through sophisticated and targeted ransomware campaigns. The effects of these campaigns are not simply isolated […]

Written by Gil Brouillette, Cisco Meraki Channel Account Manager for Northeast, & Roberto Toscano, Senior Account Manager at Aspire Technology Partners Cisco Meraki remade its licensing models in late November 2019 to support its mission of simplicity while offering flexibility. The redesign of the licenses is simple, but older gear and small purchases can impact […]

Written by Stephen Howard, Collaboration Solutions Architect, Aspire Technology Partners The Cloud supports the new ways we work, which is one of the reasons so many companies have migrated their calling to a Cloud solution, such as Cisco Webex Cloud Calling. Companies rely on effective collaboration powered by intelligent, secure, and simple collaboration solutions. Companies […]

Aspire Technology Partners collaborated with Cohesity’s Joshua Haley, Field Technical Director, to share his insights on Data Management and Protection. It was not long ago, data represented a cost to your organization – one that you answered by purchasing additional storage and compute hardware. Most of that data began and lived its life in your […]

Written by Carter Yepsen, Director, Business Development for IoT at Aspire Technology Partner IoT for utilities, Smart Cities, and roadways holds great promise for older northeastern U.S. cities with aging infrastructure. For many practical reasons, these cities, including Boston, Providence, Hartford, New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C., were built largely along waterways. They form […]

Written by Michael Keller, Senior Consulting Engineer, Aspire Technology Partners Solving Network Architecture Challenges with DMVPN Many variables exist whenever an engineer, or engineers, architects a network enterprise. Over time, the variables magnify as the needs of the enterprise change. Engineers must consider key components, such as available subnet space, addressed optimized routing (either static […]