Part Three Of a Five-Part Series “Invest” is an interesting word. It implies you’re putting something of value to work and you expect a return, in addition to the initial value. This perfectly describes a client-partner relationship that is a two-way street. A customer expects that their investment will return a stable and dependable IT environment that isn’t a burden to manage and works to achieve the business’s goals. A partner expects that their investment will return the opportunity to sell, install, and service technology that achieves your business’s goals. When both parties invest fully it becomes the ultimate win/win with the principal investments from both parties being time and trust. In this post, I’ll explore two ways to know if you're investing in the right partnership. First, they’ll invest their time to achieve the desired returns for their customers and themselves, and second, they’ll be dedicated to building trust.
Just as the frenzy around Wannacry started to fade, another global ransomware attack was ready to stand in its place. Welcome, Nyetya.
Our partners at Tenable Security put together a great blog post, “Money, Hackers and Spies: Quick Bytes from Verizon’s 2017 DBIR Report,” that shared some highlights and stats from the 2017 Verizon DBIR report, so we created this handy infographic for quick reference.
Charlotte, North Carolina, June 7, 2017 – Internetwork Engineering (IE),a strategic solution provider with offices in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and N. Florida, announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named IE to its 2017 Solution Provider 500 list. The Solution Provider 500 is CRN’s annual ranking of the largest technology integrators, solution providers and IT consultants in North America by revenue.
Working with clients on a daily basis, I’m often asked my opinion of “The Cloud”. Having been a consultant in the technology industry for 23 years I’ve seen a lot, from Mainframe to today’s Hybrid Cloud Management platforms. When I first started, I was fixing Apple Macintosh computers and their 40 MB hard drives and HP LaserJet III (PC Load Letter anyone?) printers. I personally was the proud owner of a 486/50 PC and the first Pentium 60 MHz were just starting to hit the market. I believe that when they hit the market they literally “hit” something like a tree because that first month I replaced a lot of them. Most local area networks were comprised of Ethernet hubs and heaven help us “ARCnet.” Computing infrastructure was still very heavy with Mainframes and AS/400’s and as a result highly centralized. If you wanted to manage your systems, you pretty much had to physically be in your data center on a terminal or computer with a terminal emulator.
IE was proud to be a sponsor for Reed Sorenson’s #15 car at this past Saturday’s NASCAR Monster Energy All-Star racing competition at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
