From RFID asset tracking and data analytics to connected sensors and access control, the Internet of Things (IoT) promises to provide businesses with marketable, actionable insights to help them grow. For this reason, Internetwork Engineering (IE) has made significant investments in IoT technology solutions and training to secure Cisco’s IoT Authorization released earlier in 2019.

Technology helps us communicate and collaborate across barriers that once confined us, were costly to bridge or extended the length of processes. The ease and convenience that’s brought by today’s digital technologies have also ushered in a time of unease and vulnerability. Information exchanged and stored digitally holds personal information that can be troublesome on its own if in the wrong hands or be used like a puzzle piece to achieve a hacker’s end goal. Handling this information in today’s data-rich world has its own set of challenges, and for businesses who process these important pieces of information like social security numbers, medical records, and credit card information, there are also compliance regulations adding to the complexity of it all. To help organizations operate more efficiently and securely, we’ve partnered with XMedius for secure file exchange and communications. Their solutions help reduce costs and are simple to use, secure, automated, flexible, and compliant.

We’re excited to announce that we’ve added a new partnership with Pure Storage to offer more intelligent infrastructure options to our customers. Partnering with Pure means we’re able to bring leading flash storage, cloud, hybrid cloud, data protection, and recovery solutions to the Southeast.

CRN recently released its 2019 Solution Provider 500 list, and we’re excited to announce that for the 9th year we’ve been included. This annual list ranks the largest North American IT channel partner organizations by revenue and is reporting a 19 percent increase from companies on the list over last year.

Twenty years of change in technology has created new types of businesses and disrupted entire industries. The current shift from Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)-based networks to Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) is such a game changer as organizations rely more and more on mobile devices, IoT and media-rich applications to perform a wide range of activities in order to create gains in productivity, efficiency and cost reduction.

Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) has been commanding a lot of attention lately, and rightly so. Network traffic is increasing by 30% year-over-year, and by 2020, there’s projected to be 1.2 billion mobile-connected devices. The increase in traffic means that traditional wide-area networks (WANs) are being pushed to their limits, especially in organizations with multiple locations. To alleviate unprecedented demands from mobile users, security threats, and cloud applications, more organizations are turning to SD-WAN. SD-WAN offers a better approach to WAN connectivity by solving the digital transformation challenges of traditional WAN architectures.