School routines are back in full swing, and I couldn’t help but draw similarities between how we protect the young ones we send off to school and the corporate assets and data leaving our companies.

Last week in my lab, I had an issue arise with one of my older network testbeds. When I came into the lab in the morning, none of my access points were connected to my older Cisco 5508 controller. A little troubleshooting and I quickly discovered that there was a certificate issue on my access points and controllers. Here, I’ll share what the issue was, the fix, and what impact it will have on your business.

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.