19 May 2016
It’s OK to Ignore the CEO, When it is NOT the CEO!

Brad Mathis  – [Senior Consultant – Information Security] Imagine the following scenario. You are going through your daily routine and you receive an urgent email from the CEO.  The email is urgent, appears to be time sensitive, and is requiring you to act immediately.  You are aware the CEO is currently out on vacation or away on...

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19 May 2016
Microsoft Goes Cross Platform?

Eric Maurer  – [Consultant – Applications Solutions Group] Things have been changing recently within the Microsoft ecosystem.  You no longer have to decide to be a Microsoft shop or embrace anything but Microsoft. They are fulfilling their original promise for .NET to be a platform that can be written anywhere and run anywhere. Microsoft has now...

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19 May 2016
ProofPoint Email Protection – Not Your Average Spam Filter

Chance Webster  – [Systems Engineer – Network Solutions Group] In today’s fast paced world, e-mail is the medium that drives business.  Not only do we use email to conduct day to day operations and communicate with employees, customers, and business partners, we also use email to advertise products and services, convey information to a large group,...

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19 May 2016
Spotlight On…

Employee-Owner: Amanda Gries Amanda Gries is the newest addition to our technical recruiting Staffing Solutions Group. Amanda has over 16 years of experience in the Human Resources field. The majority of her career has been as a recruiter for finance and manufacturing companies. She has also worked as an HR generalist and manager. Amanda spent over ten years...

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15 Mar 2016
Cruise Control

As a long-time resident of Evansville, I had heard about the benefits of I-69 so many times, and had awaited its arrival for so long, that I actually became a bit numb to it.  But on a recent drive to Indianapolis, I was reawakened to its benefits.  I packed and dressed as usual for my...

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15 Mar 2016
VMware AirWatch – Enterprise Mobility Management

Chris Ross  – [Systems Engineer – Network Solutions Group] Do you have a mobile workforce?  How are you controlling ghost IT and data leakage?  How are you providing corporate resources to help your mobile sales team?  Is that sales team able to leverage up to date data from the internal databases?  If you are struggling to...

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15 Mar 2016
“Are You Azure It’s a-Ready?

Rob Wilson – [Business Unit Director – Application Solutions] Hint: You have to say it with an Italian accent, like “That’s one spicy a-meatball!” In our neck of the woods, folks tend to watch with a curious skepticism as the bleeding-edge early adopters go through the pains of “beta testing” newer technologies. Some call it...

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15 Mar 2016
Systems Team Proactive Performance Management (PPM) Services

Chris Haynes  – [Keller Schroeder Engineer]         An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. – Benjamin Franklin Virtualization has become the norm in most data centers, but so is the expectation of zero downtime. Preventative maintenance is the best insurance against downtime and security threats in your storage/virtualization environment. Preventative...

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15 Mar 2016
Aperture Provides a Glimpse into the Cloud

Jeff Starling – [Senior Networking Consultant] The use of SaaS (Software as a Service) applications continue to gain popularity as a cost-effective way to provide office automation and data-sharing in today’s business environment.  SaaS services are often described to fall into 2 categories: Sanctioned (allowed and supported by the company), Unsanctioned (utilized by the end...

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15 Mar 2016
Cisco Smart Net Total Care

Carissa Montgomery – [Marketing & Communications Coordinator] As we first informed you in July 2015, Cisco recently migrated all SMARTnet clients to their new Smart Net Total Care (SNTC) service. Cisco SNTC is a software service that uses a collector to gather information on your network, validates it against Cisco’s records, and returns it to administrators...

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