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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 […]
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 […]
The Insider’s Guide to Cisco Software-Defined Access
Cisco introduced Software-Defined Access (SD-Access) last summer at Cisco Live.
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 […]
Using Light to Power Your Network
Nicola Tesla, during a 1926 interview, predicted the smartphone. Tesla said, “When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain…we shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly […]
From a Humble Start to State-of-the-Art: Our New Headquarters
As we celebrate the opening of our new corporate headquarters and embark on a new chapter in Aspire’s history, we take a look back at the early days, our modest beginnings, and the origins of Aspire’s unique culture. Aspire Technology Partners began in an ordinary, window-less office in Red Bank, New Jersey. The space quickly grew […]